Reading Assignment Week 2: For week two please prepare the following excerpt of the first chapter of Mary Ann Doane: The Emergence of Cinematic Time . You can download the reading materials here: The Representability of Time   Reading Assignment Week 3: For the third week please prepare the following essay by Henry Jenkins: Game Design as Narrative Architecture . You can [...]

Welcome to this years CTIN 501 class on Interactive Cinema. The schedule of the class is available for your reference right here: Download USC_CTIN501_syllabus_12

Even though it is at the end of the semester, I am posting an overview of additional reading materials that were part of the discussions throughout the class. The readings are grouped loosely according to the parts of the class:   Narrative and Interactive Media: Seymour Chatman: Story and Discourse, Cornell University, 1978 W.J.T. Mitchell: On [...]

Here are the shaders I mentioned in our previous class. Display texture on both sides of mesh: The first shader “bothSidesShader” will be displaying the texture that you are assigning to it on both sides of the mesh you attach it to. When you open the shader file you will see a line that reads “Cull [...]

Moving on to the last assignment – which you can download here:
CTIN_534_4_assignment

And here is finally the third assignment for you to download: CTIN_534_3_assignment

You can download the second assignment here: CTIN_534_2_assignment

After you are done with the first camera exercises you can move right on to the first class project. Please download the description of it here: CTIN_534_1_assignment

As a little warm-up exercise before we launch into the first class project please complete the following assignment until our class meeting on Tuesday, September 6, 2011.

Download the assignment here: CTIN_534_non_narrative

Here are all the readings for the class. Please prepare them for the day they are listed on the syllabus. Reading for Week 3, Sept 7, 2010: Sergei Eisenstein: A Dialectic Approach to Film Form; in: Eisenstein, S., Film Form, 1977 Film_Form Reading for Week 5, Sept 21, 2010: Italo Calvino, Cybernetics and Ghosts; in: Calvino, I., The [...]

Welcome to CTIN 534 – Experiments in Interactivity. On our class blog you will find all posts regarding our class, the assignments, example code etc. You can also use it to share your insights, post versions of assignments, and post references to interesting things you have seen that might be of interest for the whole [...]

Here are the slides from last week’s lecture for download:

CTIN501_Week14_ambient_algorithmic_crowd_source

Here are the two links in mentioned in class for the Tulse Luper Suitcase project by Peter Greenaway:

http://www.tulselupernetwork.com/basis.html

http://www.tulseluperjourney.com/

In our last class meeting we talked about computer vision – how to make you program evaluate and respond to live images from a camera connected to the computer. The following is a short recapitulation of what we covered in the meeting. Computer Vision Experiments We used the external library OpenCV for these experiments, which you [...]

You can download the powerpoint slides from the lecture here (the file has a size of 13.5 MB): Download presentation . Project Links: Here are links to more material about the works we talked about: Marc Lafia: Variable Montage , (2002) Cyril Tsiboulski: Time Resequenced , (2004) Camille Utterback: Liquid Time , (2001) Alvaro Cassinelli: Khronos Projector , (2005) [...]

Reading Assignment Week 2: For week two please prepare the following excerpt of the first chapter of Mary Ann Doane: The Emergence of Cinematic Time . You can download the reading materials here: The Representability of Time Reading Assignment Week 3: For the third week please prepare the following essay by Henry Jenkins: Game Design as Narrative Architecture . You can download [...]

Welcome to the new version of the Interactive Cinema class. For your reference you can download the syllabus for the class right here: USC_CTIN501_syllabus_11