Final Project - Interactive Ball Droppings
Description
Inspired by Josh Nimoy's original Ball Droppings, I want to create an interactive experience where users' arms become the lines that the balls bounce off of.
Interaction Mock-ups
Single User:
Multiples User:
Final Experience
Homework 7 - 11.28.11
Letterforms
Inspired by Peter Cho's Letterscapes, create a typographic composition.
Homework 6 - 10.28.11
Soda Constructor
Take some time and get familiar with soda constructor and make a creature: Wikipedia, play, play.
Natural Phenomenon
Try to model a natural phenomenon, such as smoke, water, waterfalls, puddles, etc. What interesting combinations of forces can you come up with?
Interaction
Design something that affords interaction w/ out using a keyboard and mouse, think about computer vision, sound input or other ways of getting human / gestural input into the system. Think about leaving the screen. Carefully document your experiments.
Homework 5 - 10.11.11
Particles
I found the bubbles in a glass of champagne to be a fun and interesting particle system to capture.
Fireworks
Create a non interactive looping fireworks animation.
Sin/Cos Particles & Natural Phenomenon
I spent this week focusing on the extra-hard assignment below!
Ball Droppings Attempt
Make a ball droppings clone. See Josh Nimoy's original.
This is my super janky attempt.
Homework 4 - 9.27.11
2 Point Recorder
Create a second point as in Scott Snibbe's motionsketch
Homework 3 - 9.20.11
Tribute
Make a composition using the animation techniques that is a tribute to John Whitney.
I am including two different versions of the same code, where one keeps track of more points. I cannot decide which composition I like better, as they both create wild, organic patterns that are interesting to watch for a long time.
Visual Sound
Since we talked in class about this idea of a relationship between sound and visual synthesis (and harmony) find a short piece of music (can be any duration as long as there are multiple notes; a short snippet, or a long song) and make a composition that is a visual equivalent of that sound. Think about how the make a visual equivalent using the techniques we talked about this week. Post both the sound and the resulting animation. Try to bring out some essential truth of the audio through the visualization.
Natural Phenomenon
use sin and cos to emulate a natural phenomenon (ie, something you see in the natural world). Be sure to provide some documentation (video / picture / text) of what this phenomenon is.
I attempted to simulate the sun/moon rising in the sky, and how that changes during the seasons. Besides the awful music, the following video does a great job at depicting what I was attempting to create.
Creature
Extend the xeno / atan2 code, making a creature which follows the mouse. Think of how you could use sinusoidal animation techniques to give the object some life - breathing, blinking, etc.
Homework 2 - 9.13.11
Animation Experiment
Based on the work of Robin Rhode, make an animation with still images. If you can, cross fade between them. Can you tell a story with just a few frames? Think especially of using people and or mixing scales. Do not doctor the images, and keep the camera stationary.
Fastest Non Moving Speed
Find the fastest speed for the square to move across the screen and have the motion be imperceptible. Time how long it takes for the square to move across the screen and measure the physical (not pixel) distance. What is this speed in inches/second? For kicks, What is it in in mph?
Video Coming Soon.Fastest Still Perceptible Speed
Find the fastest speed for the square to move across the screen and have the motion be still perceived as continuous (not discrete jumps). Time how long it takes for the square to move across the screen and measure the physical (not pixel) distance. What is this speed in inches/second? What is this rate in mph?
in/sec: 8.692 [5.25 inches / 0.604 sec]
mph: 0.4939 [8.28598485 * 10-5 miles / 0.000167777778 hour]
Click to Change pta and ptb
Make an application where whenever you click, you change either the ptA position or the ptB position to the mouse position, alternating every time you click.
Shaper Controls Something
Make the shape code control another property of the object, such as its size or color. Make the nicest composition that you can. Try to make it elegant and organic.
Multiple Xenos
Make a series of xeno objects which follow the mouse, each at different rates. give them slightly different colors so that you can perceive them as independent objects. you will have to modify the rectangle object so that they can have unique colors.
Multiple Xenos Trail
Make an array of xeno objects where the first element follows the mouse, the second element follows the first, the third follows the second, etc.
Homework 1 - 9.6.11
Flip Book
Video/images coming soon.
Motion Sketches
Make three recordings (using a handheld camera that is stationary) of three different scenes which have interesting motion. Pick one point to watch during the video, and sketch out the motion path. Try to find both rhythmic (repetitive) and organic motions.
Click each image below to see an animated GIF with the motion.
Name
Draw your name using openFrameworks.
