Hi Professor, I went home for the weekend and forgot to bring my Arduino stuff. I played around with the motion sensor before but couldn’t get it working. Instead I spent 3 hours making this visualizer in Max. I experimented a lot with different types of lighting, textures, animation but this is what I finally…
Author: Sameer
Final Project – Entropy
A Statement by Sameer Desai and Christian Orion Adler For our project, we decided to create a device you can use to control two perpetually intertwined dots, locked in a dance of entropic dynamic revolutions. We captured the user input with an Arduino, utilizing a potentiometer and an ultrasonic sensor. The potentiometer knob controls the radii of…
Final Project Sketch: Time Shift
Sameer Desai and Christian Adler The concept behind our project is the passage of time. Sometimes in life it feels like the world is moving at a hundred miles per hour, but at other times mere seconds can stretch into an eternity. It all depends on a person’s feelings and perspective. Our project will allow…
Computer Vision Sketch
For my CV Sketch I used FaceOSC with Max to track vertical mouth distance and mapped it to a lowpass filter on the synth track of the beat I made for this. When you open your mouth, you can control the filter and the video effect. I used the Vizzie module FOGGR for the video…
Video Remix Sketch
I took a clip of Soulja Boy playing Among Us and made a beat with sounds from the video. Then I also added in the acapella from his song “Killswitch”. I used the following Vizzie effects: ZOOMR, PIXL8R, TWIRLR, and SEPR8R. Among Us stream clip: “Killswitch” by Soulja Boy: Video without any effects:
Interactive Touch Project: Pentatonic Piano
For my Interactive Touch Project I created a mini pentatonic piano with the Makey Makey. I was inspired to create my project after witnessing all the improvisation COVID-19 has spurred in society. No one really knows what will happen next, but thanks to coronavirus, society is evolving, developing new and innovative solutions, and improvising constantly….
Interactive Touch: Physical Input Sketch
I tried to make my input minimalistic to match my future animations which will be simple stick figures. I took an Altoid tin and used copper tape to create 5 buttons. The ground is on the side of the tin, so the user will hold the tin keeping one finger on the ground button and…
Interactive Touch Rough Concept
For my project, I would like to focus on how people found new ways to socialize with covid. At first people would just hang out with each other in person, but when covid hit everyone was forced to socially distance. Eventually young people like myself started using more virtual outlets to socialize such as video…
Makey Makey Audio Sketch
Created a basic patch in Max to take in keyboard input and play audio files. Then the MakeyMakey board triggered keyboard input playing the sounds. I used 5 sounds. A kick, a snap, 2 chords, and an effect I made in Ableton Live by adding some reverb and delay to a slide flute I played….
Data Art – Solar System of Racial Diversity in Undergraduate Universities
By: Sameer Desai For my improved Data Art Project, the user is able to change which college data set is used with the number keys and all the objects orbit in a circular path. In this version the user can hit “1” to show WPI data, “2” to show Harvard Data, “3” to show Yale…
Data Sketch – College Enrollment Solar System
Data Sketch – College Enrollment Solar System By: Sameer Desai For my Data Art Project, I chose to represent undergraduate enrollment by race/ethnicity for a college. The data shows the total number of undergrads put into 9 categories: The reason I chose this data is because I thought it would be interesting to compare the…
Sameer Desai
Hi there! I’m Sameer Desai, a first year Computer Science major at WPI. My main passion for the past few years has been digital music production in Ableton Live. I produce hip hop and electronic music and play a little bit of jazz piano on the side. My love for music is what first got…