Author Archives: Ryan Ostrander
Pew pew
Concept For those with paralyzed or missing hands, sound could be a great alternative form of input. In a top-down shooter, for example, one could blow (such that it makes sound) to make the character move toward the top of … Continue reading
Pseudo-electrocardiogram
Concept As the heart pumps, fresh oxygen rich blood is sent throughout the body as carbon dioxide is excreted. This process can be viewed by pressing one’s finger against their computer’s webcam and holding a light still behind it. The … Continue reading
Like Mainstream
Team: Justin Heims, Makhambet Buzurmankulov, Ryan Ostrander, Daniel Mehdi Description: For this project our goal is to analyze a few key areas of an individual’s facebook profile and determine how “mainstream” they are are. The information we plan on analyzing … Continue reading
State Data Correlation
Concept datamasher.org is a website that contains many datasets with results on a state by state basis. I wanted to mine the datasets and have a script automatically compare them to see if there is a correlation. Process I mine … Continue reading
Synonym Shooter
Concept I wanted to take the classic top-down style space shooter and decorate it using only text. So the same words don’t appear over and over, I use Big Huge Lab’s thesaurus api. Process I use Processing’s XMLElement to … Continue reading
RGB Laser
Context/Concept The sketch shows an image being built like an inject printer but with added randomness and a line at a time for the aesthetic effect. Each pixel is lased by each color (red, green, blue) exactly once, this adds … Continue reading