A Font of My Very Own
My first foray into font design was a wondrous accident. Our assignment was to design a font for a word, and Rune suggested that we use the Geomerative library for Processing, which converts true-type fonts into a series of points…
3D Drawing
Our first OpenFrameworks-based assignment for 3D Sensing and Visualization was to create a program that finds the forepoint of a person/object (i.e. the point closest to the Kinect camera) and use it to draw a line in space. Kyle gave…
My Identity as a Poster
In Printing Code, we discussed computational color schemes, which allow designers to select a set of colors that work together without clashing. The follow-up assignment was to design a generative poster that serves as an abstract representation of my identity…
Geometric Context from a Single Image
The paper “Geometric Context from a Single Image” describes a method for approximating 3D structures from the content of a single 2D image. The first part of this method involves classifying each image pixel into one of three categories: part…
Teaching my Computer to Read
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…
Those Gestures are Whack
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…
Stop and Classify the Irises
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…
Wet/Sharp
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…
Ice Cream
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…
Dream Projects
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,…