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You can download the slides from our last class meeting on space here:
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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 the reading materials here: Game Design as Narrative Architecture

Reading Assignment Week 4:

For week four please prepare an excerpt from Gene Youngblood: Expanded Cinema.

You can download the reading materials here: The Aesthetic Machine, Computer Films

Reading Assignment Week 5:

For week five please prepare the following essay by Gonzalo Frasca: Simulation versus Narrative.

You can download the reading materials here: Simulation versus Narrative

Welcome to the CTIN 501 on Interactive Cinema. You can download the syllabus for the Spring 2013 semester here: USC_CTIN501_syllabus_13

Here is a zip-file containing the code examples we discussed in our last class meeting. The archive contains:

Two sketches explaining the use of Arrays and Array-lists

One sketch explaining how to dynamically switch between video streams

Four sketches to interface with the Kinect controller to display depth images, track distances, track hands, and track center of mass

You can download the file here: Processing_code_examples

To enable Processing to handle video a bit more reliably than in the native implementation you can download this library and install it in your processing Directory:

- Download the zip-file

- Uncompress the zip-file

- Move the resulting directory to the following location:

  /Users/yourName/Documents/Processing/libraries/

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 the reading materials here: Game Design as Narrative Architecture

Reading Assignment Week 4:

For week four please prepare an excerpt from Gene Youngblood: Expanded Cinema.

You can download the reading materials here: The Aesthetic Machine, Computer Films

Reading Assignment Week 5:

For week five please prepare the following essay by Gonzalo Frasca: Simulation versus Narrative.

You can download the reading materials here: Simulation versus Narrative

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

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

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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.

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