Project 3

I ended up having soe trouble with the printing. as it turns out you cant print on thick card without paying a large amount which was the oposite of what I wanted so I had it printed on a poster materiel instead. another problem was locating a place where you can buy dice. the wharehouse didnt sell them and nor did whitcouls. So I bought a pack of 27 dice for the ridiculas price of $15 only to find that the box they came in was a better die as it was much larger and less likely to get lost. So after my hunting and gathering I had my project to present in the atrium which I did. Here are some photos of it in the atrium

Project 3

Ok so I designed the game board. I chose a bright red, white and black as its pretty standard for old school board games and treated the objects on the board with shadows and embossed them to make them pop.

And thus the game of IF was born.

Project 3

It didnt take me long to devise the mechanics of the game  mainly because, well it is a boardgame. you roll a die and when you come to an IF circle, you draw a card and roll again. if the number you rolled makes the IF statement on the card true then you take the true path, else you take the false path. simple enough. after devising the mechanics all I had to do was make the board and the cards. which I did

Project 3 chosen Idea

My tjhird Idea and the idea I chose was to make a boardgame, something fun, colourful and interactive to get the idea across to those simple minded people who dont take coding. I chose to make it a basic chance based game with parts where the If statements would be affected by the roll of a die.

Project 3 Interim presentation

As much fun as coding is (sarcasm) I was quite glad that we didnt have to use code at all in this project.
For the interim presentation I had three ideas to choose from. Two for if/else, one for loop. For my loop idea it was going to be a video made of pictures I had drawn and put together so it was a never ending clip much  like a zoomquilt clip I saw once http://www.zoomquilt.org/. Its pretty cool. My 1st idea for my if/else metaphor was a poster for a tax return type thing  so it would have things like if you earn more than 50k a year and you have three kids and however much debt you fit into class M. however upon some research I discovered that no one cared about looking at tax forms I chose not to use this idea.

Project 3

After forgetting about my blog up until 3 oclock today I have decided to post a few things.
Ill start from the beginning. With this project I chose the term I best understand, if/else. Its easily understandable and it lends itself to many many metaphors. At the first lecture we had for this project when we were told what the project was I instantly thought if/else and something interactive rather than just a poster or a video. other then that I didnt think about the project until 3 days before the interim presentation

Project 2. post 7

This is my final submission, the Glockenball 2.0 http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=27938.
Its a slightly tweaked version of my last one. However I have improved some of the things that werent quite right with it. It now stops playing when you close the app down instead of playing along in java as it did before. I also added a high pass filter and a notch filter to reduce the annoying clicks that kept happening. So there you are, my fancy Glokenball 2.0

Project 2. post 6

Here is my idea with entirely original code. http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=27150. It does everything that I want it to so far however there are a few issues. When you create a ball too close to the side then it just stays along that line and buzzes a lot. Unfortunatly Ive seen other pieces of code with this problem and it seems that its hardto fix, therefore Im going to leave it alone. the only thing I want to do to improve it now is to make it prettier and add a high pass filter to remove the ticks and clicks that occours when there are more than a few circles floating around

Project 2. post 5

Here is a piece of code that is from another application that I adjusted as much as I could to do what I wanted it to http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=27150. Unfortunatly I didnt understand most of the class function and wasnt able to get much use out of this piece of code. whaat helped me most of all was getting help from a classmate who showed me and taught me  A LOT about coding. He taught me about arraylists and classes properly and helped me introduce minims and sound into my peice of code I wrote.

Project 2. 4th post

Ive been looking at breaking the code to try and figure out what it is I need to do. at the moment it seems that class and arraylists are what it is that I need to use. I broke a piece of code and came up with this http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=27147 it has helped me understand that this is not the way to do what I want. What I needed to do was look at creating a class for my circles which I found out breaking my next piece of code.

Project 2. 3rd post

Ok Ive settled on my final idea and started coding it. sort of. My Idea is similar to the one before except all the shapes are circles. When the mouse is pressed it will create a circle that bounces off the sides of the screen, when it hits the side it will create a tone from  scale, I have chosen the E major for conveniences sake. Depending on where the mouse is the circle will be a certain colour and produce a certain tone when it hits the side. Heres what Ive coded so far http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=27146. As it is they dont do anything and they are pretty plain. and theres no sound. What im going to investigate first is moving the circles.

Project 2. 2nd post

Ok so my interim presentation idea turned out to be a dud and I was advised to change basicly the whole thing. Ive decided to change it to more like a keyboard but abstracted so that different shapes (possibly moving) to act as the keys and when pressed they create a tone.

Project 2. Interim Presentation

Here is the post for my interim presentation. Basicly my idea is based around a guitar. Sliders will be used for the strings that change the pitch of the note. Ive also considered having the background change colour when it produces a tone. So if its a major it will be a warm colour like a yellow or red and when its a minor it will be a cold blue and for 7ths a jazzy looking purple.

Here is a theremin I found on processing that sort of uses a similar idea just using a theramin design rather than a guitar. http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=9264  Ill probably investigate the code for this application

What we were asked to post last lecture

Alright, so the first thing we were asked to post was what we had learned and they are as follows:
Things don't have to be complicated to be beautiful.
Loops make everything a lot easier.
By changing small things you can get some great results.

And we were asked to post about our wallpaper and our goals.  My thoughts on my code was that it was too simple. Though I do like it; I want to be more competent with the programme and be able to do more with code. I plan to achieve this through a lot of experimentation and learning how to use the programme better

Wallpaper sketches

Here are the sketches that were done for the interim presentations.

Fourth and final wallpaper

This is my favourite design

And heres the link http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24258

Wallpaper number 3

This is my third wallpaper, its pretty cool.  Heres the link  http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24246

Wallpaper 2

This is my second wallpaper. Its still the same pattern with the pattern seperation changed. And heres the link http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24242

First proper post of project 1

With it being only a few days away from the hand in I thought its about time I started uploading and blogging. Mostly what I have been working on is the looped triangles pattern I uploaded to open processing. I chose to continue using the patternmaker as I quite liked the effects I got from it especially with loops.

This is my final image of my first wallpaper.

For some reason when I upload to open processing at 500,1000 pixels it uploads horizontaly and does not show the image so for uploading it I had to upload it at 200,400. However the image here is the full size and what it should look like. However here is the link for it http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=24238

Those sketches I did that time

http://www.openprocessing.org/portal/?userID=10165

Hey look its those sketches I did that time with that pattern maker file. Its pretty cool