I have been doing a lot of work with letters and fonts lately in Printing Code class, so I thought it might be interesting to extend some of that into my Makematics project this week. One application of machine learning…
The paper, Whack Gestures, describes research into creating simple, minimally disruptive gestures for cellphones. The researchers were able to create a series of gestures based on a combination of whacks to the phone. Most smartphones have built-in accelerometers that can…
I wanted to analyze real scientific or economic/demographic data for my project this week. There is a lot of demographic data on the internet, particularly from .gov sites and the census, but it is difficult to sort through and often…
The second assignment for Printing Code was to create an image that evokes the concept of “wet” in one shape, and the concept of “sharp” in another. For “sharp,” I thought jagged lines would be most effective. I wanted them…
The first assignment for Printing Code was to design an ice cream cone, using only the ellipse(), rect(), and triangle() functions in Processing, and using them only once each. Looping, of course, was allowed. I decided that the best way…
Before the days of smartphones, I had always wished that there was a way to figure out the names of actors while watching a movie on TV. There was always that one character that I could not identify by name,…
“Stable Multi-Target Tracking in Real-Time Surveillance Video” is a paper that discusses algorithms designed to follow individuals in surveillance video. While many surveillance systems are able to determine the identity of an individual and his general whereabouts, it is harder…
After our class discussion, I was thinking a lot about the various ways that one could use the finger tracking code to distinguish between the thumb and other fingers. I tried a lot of different ways to do this, and…
Video Paramecia was in the Spring Show! In HD! It had a great location in the entrance hallway where lots of people interacted with it. Here are a few screenshots from the second day. My only regret is that I…
FIT THE FIRST – CONCEPT The design and assembly of my final project for Constructing Generative Systems was a dramatic saga. I had some materials left over from my two previous projects, all of which refract light in interesting ways….