For our final project, Saul and I created “Still Life” – a game which captures an often forgotten truth about the world we live in: Sometimes, you need to stay still for a moment and relax to gain clarity. Here’s our documentation video, which contains everything about the project, how it was made, and how…
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Saul Woolf and Kyria Nelson – Final Project Concept Example
If you’ve taken any Computer Science courses beyond the first few introduction courses, you’ve likely encountered Conway’s “Game of Life” simulation. In this game, a grid can have either colored or uncolored cells, representing living or dead organisms respectively. If a living cell has two or three living neighbors (cells in its immediate surroundings), it…
Kyria Nelson – Sound Controlled Animation Example (kind of.)
Boy, this one aged like milk! First of all, this project was controlled by visuals for my class, not audio – so think of innovative ways to control your Max patches in other ways (using your voice, etc)! Secondly, I made this patch before the Netflix documentary “Leaving Neverland”, and had pretty much no knowledge…
Kyria Nelson – Meme Remix Example
I was going to use old fashioned games to make my “meme remix”, using a USB NES controller, but “hi” couldn’t seem to find the device. So instead, I went with plan B, which was a bit more meme-y.. Cat videos! Like any sane person should, I have a healthy obsession with cats (and their…
Kyria Nelson – Paper Nature Example
My project is a very large birch tree in the middle of autumn. It has red and orange leaves which respond to touch. When one holds the “ground leaf” and runs their hand through the trees’ leaves, wind chimes play, and randomized graphics of leaves falling plays on the screen. This project was a huge…
Kyria Nelson – Paper Nature Concept Example
For my paper nature project, my biggest inspiration was the wind moving through the leaves of trees around campus. I liked the idea of running one’s hands through the leaves of a tree to produce music. My project will be a large paper tree, with each leaf hooked up to a MaKey MaKey board through…
Kyria Nelson – Interactive Animation Example
Hello! For my interactive animation I wanted to have crisp, easy-to-understand animations with cute little bits of sound to make the experience pop. I took a picture of my shelf of glass ornaments to animate. I love glass items and it felt like an appropriate choice, as glass objects always felt to me like they…
Kyria Nelson – Animated Abstraction Example
Hi All, Just a quick disclaimer that I also completed this project as a student, so my “examples” are nowhere near perfect or ideal. If your animated abstraction looks TOTALLY different, that’s great (and encouraged)! For my animated abstraction, I wanted to keep the general idea of a gradient circle pattern based on Zanis Waldheims’…
Kyria Nelson – Geometric Abstraction Example
Hi all, sorry for the super-late example post. Based on what’s been posted already though, it seems like you guys have the hang of things 🙂 When going through the suggested inspirations, one artist in particular stood out to me – Zanis Waldheims. I loved his artworks which featured series of similar shapes with simple gradients,…
Kyria Nelson – Bio & Artworks Example
Hey all, My name is Kyria, and I’m a junior CS major. I’ve lived in Massachusetts for nearly my whole life. I love art and have been obsessed with drawing since I was very little thanks to inspiration from books, shows and video games. I mainly use more traditional methods for art (watercolor being a…