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 [...]
Keep Reading »I purchased 25 red keychain laser pointers on eBay to make an interactive laser light show for an upcoming event. So far I have mounted 16 of them to a discarded Medusa Lamp I found near the dumpster.
Keep Reading »The final project for MAT259: Algorithmic Data Visualization involved visualizing data in 3D. Since we are using Library data I chose to investigate the Dewey Decimal category information. The Dewey Decimal system places every item in one of 10 broad categories that each have many subcategories. I wanted to investigate how the distribution of Dewey [...]
Keep Reading »The live visual performance / animation program I started in Fall 2008 is now code-named ‘Razzle’ and is being further developed this quarter for Independent Study as well as MAT201B: Computing With Media Data. Below is the latest video from the program, experimenting with per-frame rotation. This adds a whole new dimension to pre-existing animations [...]
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