I experimented with photostitching using Photoshop’s Photomerge functionality using four images I took of the current Jesusita Brush Fire in Santa Barbara, CA. I took these images from the second floor of our building here at the UCSB campus. Click below to see a bigger version! See the Santa Barbara Independent for info on this [...]
Keep Reading »Marbles I from Pehr Hovey on Vimeo. I have been playing with particle systems that have individual position and velocity but are also affected by other particles and the environment. In this case there are hidden “hotspots” in the field that affect the particles’ velocity vectors. Marbles II from Pehr Hovey on Vimeo. When a [...]
Keep Reading »This quarter I am working with a ProLaser ShowCube laser projector that is capable of drawing curves on a wall in Red, Green or Yellow through a combination of Red and Green Lasers. My project, currently dubbed Laser Shadow, intends to use a webcam to track passersby and project their ‘shadow’ on the wall behind [...]
Keep Reading »Lissajous Curves are a family of parametric functions that define X and Y in terms of a pair of sinusoids. By varing the frequency of each sine wave as well as the phase difference between them a variety of harmonic shapes can be created. The appearance of the curve is largely tied to the ratio [...]
Keep Reading »Media Garden was part of the UCSB Primavera festival and featured several performances by MAT students. I collaborated with the Rhythm Seminar for the first part of the event. The Rhythm Seminar, organized by Professor Matt Wright, consisted of several students recording, sampling, and processing live audio. They restricted themselves to only using sounds that [...]
Keep Reading »My first project for MAT594CM: Spatial Computing explored flocking behavior where a group of entities move in three dimensions with their own velocities but are influenced by the movements and positions of other members of the flock. The movement is influenced by running a set of rules that generates a relative velocity vector that is [...]
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