Category Archives: Exercise 1
Circus Hitler
Concept My concept for this exercise was simply to make a humorous program that made use of the new skills I had learned in Processing. Hitler’s face has become a symbol of evil and terror in today’s popular culture. By … Continue reading
Spin Cycle
Concept The concept of Spin Cycle originated with an idea of making continuous coordinate transformations of an image between polar and cartesian coordinate systems. The goal in mind was to use this coordinate transformation algorithm recursively to create abstract … Continue reading
Essence of Good and Evil
Description: I ended up using the ideas of image management to make an abstract representation of a flower using tint, transparency, and image manipulation using the pictures of, for instance, death or something thats bad. Context/Concept: The idea of this … Continue reading
Big/Small
Concept: This piece is about the juxtaposition of small and large things. I read about a technique where a photographer blurs the top and bottom of a photo making it appear to be a miniaturized version. My piece takes two … Continue reading
Lost in Translation
Concept: I spent last summer in France and got to really experience a different culture. Speaking conversational French, I was able to communicate with a lot of locals. One thing I realized more as my time outside of the country … Continue reading
What is Food to You?
Description For my Image exercise, I chose to explore how different sources can provide incredibly distinct results when presented with the same information. I specifically am concerned with the perception of Food in the context of PunchFork.com and Flickr.com.
Seeing Seasons
Winter is the first row, followed by spring, summer, then fall. Concept: When this exercise was assigned we were having pretty unseasonal weather for september. That got me thinking about how other people view the different seasons. What do other … Continue reading
Campfire
Concept For this exercise, I had decided I wanted to build a particle system of some sort. After some brainstorming on how to incorporate Flickr, I decided that the particles of my particle system could be made out of the … Continue reading
Foggy Image
Title: Foggy Image Context/Concept: For this exercise, I was inspired by the idea of fogged glass and wiping off the fog to uncover an image underneath. The goal of my exercise was to recreate the same process that … Continue reading
Deconstructed
Description: This program iterates through a random image’s pixels and identifies a predetermined number of the most common colors in an image. It then displays those colors alongside the original image. Concept: Similar to a recent trend of deconstructing food … Continue reading