Serenity of the Firefly Class Redux

For my ICM final, I decided to upgrade my fireflies sketch to make it a more realistic and immersive experience. I wanted to alter the movement of the fireflies to mimic the swarming behavior of insects. To do this, I…

3D Sucks!

As you can tell from this title, I really don’t like 3D programming. It’s bulky and slow and hard to manipulate. But since we had to play with 3D for an assignment, here it is. My original plan was to…

Look Deep Into My Eyes

While frantically trying to come up with an idea for my ICM midterm, I had this image of a ring of eyes spinning around stuck in my head. Maybe it was all of those hours of work on my Comm…

Serenity of the Firefly Class

My apologies if you were hoping for an entry on the amazing but canceled-too-early TV show. But if knowing that I am a fan makes you more likely to read this blog post, then that’s awesome. For ICM class, the…

Make it rain… again.

This is the updated version of my raincloud sketch, rewritten with functions and a few improvements. And now you can play with it directly in my blog! (If it doesn’t work, here’s the link.) And here is the code: [code…

Beware the Evil Eye

I am fascinated by the concept of the evil eye in ancient cultures. It is a curse brought on by the envious gaze of others.  Bad things befall those who are cursed by the evil eye. It is unusual as…

Make it rain!

Here is a little applet I wrote in Processing for my ICM homework last week. When you move the cloud over the sun, all of the clouds will start to rain on the grass below. http://itp.nyu.edu/~ka1019/ICM/raincloud/ It’s a little buggy–I…