MAT Projects

Contours: More Laser in progress

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The laser project is coming together in time for the MAT End-of-year show on Monday. I have dubbed it ‘contours‘ and it will be featured on the first floor of Elings hall during the show. I am now working on the projected view that will accompany the laser. My goal is to show change over [...]

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Levity: Generative Cubic Constructs

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

For Fundamentals of Spatial Computing I explored recursive and generative architecture in a general sense. Rather than designing buildings I was concerned with generative 3D structural forms built only out of cubes aligned to a grid. I wanted to create a system that would be simple to use but be capable of creating a wide [...]

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Laser Shadow Update – now with OSC

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

I have connected the computer vision / blob tracking software to the laser so now with proper lighting conditions the laser will draw your outline as you dance around in front of it. It works best if the wall is a solid color and brightly lit so the thresholding operation can pick up your outline. [...]

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Static Attraction at SBCC

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

A few of us MAT students were special guests at the Studio 4D final show at Santa Barbara City College on May 19, 2009. In addition to screening the students’ final video projects we were invited to give short presentations and demonstrations of some of our work. Ryan McGee and Aaron McLeran performed some of [...]

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MAT Colloquium Video Intro

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

I collaborated with Aaron McLeran, a fellow MAT student, to produce a series of introductory videos for our department’s colloquium series when they are posted online. Both the music and the visuals are generated on the fly and different every time. Below is a sampling of some of the takes: Media Arts & Technology Colloquium [...]

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Animation stills uploaded to Flickr

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I have acquired a Flickr account to efficiently display large amounts of images from my projects. My goal is to show the wide variety of images that are feasible with the program I am writing as well as making it easy to trace the evolution of the program as new features are added and animations [...]

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