Most video compression algorithms are designed for live-action video which contains shades of color that can be easily compressed. My animations tend to change very rapidly and employ many very different colors which means that compression has a hard time working without drastically reducing the image quality. To combat this I have signed up for [...]
Keep Reading »For the month of April 2009 four 11×14 still frames titled Digital Refinement are on display in the Gallery Lounge of the University Center at UC Santa Barbara. A fellow MAT artist, Reza Ali, also has four stills on display in this exhibit. Below are low-res images of the displayed works:
Keep Reading »Below are two preliminary videos using new parameter control modes that I am working on. In each of these, parameters such as level of background fading, rotation speed and color characteristics are being automatically changed at a pre-determined interval using another control program that I am writing. More information to come. Razzle MIDI Control: Stripes [...]
Keep Reading »This past Friday, April 10 I performed live visuals using my animation program for a departmentmate’s band (and their opener) at Stateside bar in downtown Santa Barbara, CA. It was an interesting experience since I had never performed visuals for a public setting before but it was a good time and I made some connections [...]
Keep Reading »Winter Quarter 2009 was spent developing a graphical user interface (GUI) for my live visual performance tool. Each animation in the program has several parameters that control how it looks which is great for developing a wide range of aesthetics but it became cumbersome to control all of these parameters using keyboard commands. Though I [...]
Keep Reading »The Martian Party took place Friday April 3, 2009 at the San Clemente Graduate Apartments at UCSB. It was the first event that I have produced here at UCSB and I was assisted by Reza Ali (Promotion, Music), Justin Hoffman (Visuals) and Ryan McGee (Percussion). The Graduate Student Apartment Community Council (GSACC) provided refreshments. This [...]
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