Of Gods & Golems finally came to a close last week. It’s been a challenging year… between finding space, writing a thesis, and essentially doing the impossible: building a life-size stop-motion puppet. Tiger spent the better part of six months just trying to figure out how to make it, but she pulled some magic (as always), and [...]

At the end of last semester, Tiger and I finally showed the big project that we’d been working on for the last few months. Continuing in the theme of my thesis, it dealt with the contrast of real time and stop-motion time; specifically, it explored how those altered perceptions relate to the act of dancing. We [...]

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IMD Mid-Year Thesis Show December 2, 2011

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As part of my thesis project exploring the way that stop-motion people might perceive the world, Tiger and I put together a game experimenting with the idea.  The main goal was to sharply contrast gameplay relative to two different time dimensions, one at normal speed and one slowed way down. Click the image to play; it’s [...]

I completely forgot about this until now, but here’s the thesis proposal I wrote back in April (for the Fox Fellowship).  Obviously it’s going to be different by the time the final show rolls around, but this was my initial idea.

Here’s a short demo of the stop motion installation that Tiger and I put together:

A full documentary is forthcoming, as well as more details if we manage to get this shown at a gallery.

As part of the assignment in analyzing scripted spaces, we (Sam Cubed) created this video:

An algorithmic world, where the player directs the balance of four basic elements. Definitely play this in fullscreen: right-click and choose “Go Fullscreen”.

Vertical soundscape (and it’s cyclically navigable, Kyla! )

This image is somewhere between concept art and theater poster.My intent is to show the continuous cycle of the world.

For the final project in my physical computing class this semester, I helped put together an interactive installation that uses infrared motion-tracking to project images that follow players’ footsteps and to play music dynamically. It’ll be on display in San Francisco, at CCA’s Thesis show, until the 15th. Skip ahead to around 4:40 if you [...]

My final project is an extension of the motion tracking / audio performance that I already worked on for my midterm. The basic idea is to allow players to walk around on a 10′ x 10′ x 10′ stage, and play different parts of a song based on their locations: Infrared illuminators will flood the [...]

“Nickel Concert” allows the player to act as a conductor for a virtual audience. The setup makes use of a standard webcam and a physical “clapper”, pictured here: Using OpenCV’s blob tracking, the program observes the motion of the player’s hands, and based on the position and size of the blobs, different audio is played. [...]

I’m using the midterm as an opportunity to work on techniques for my final project, so I’ll be doing IR motion tracking, in conjunction with multi-tracked synchronous audio. The basic idea is to allow players to use their hands to wipe away a virtual wall of wax, which will be projected on a wall. By [...]

I had several goals for this assignment. One, to make use of the OpenCV library to analyze my previous assignment using blobs; two, to figure out how to play different audio clips, and switch between; and three, to use the Firmata firmware on the Arduino, so I could control it directly in Processing. Moving away [...]