Sensory Metaphors: Starship Control Board

For my final project, I decided to use my fascination with science fiction and animation to teach life lessons based off of a spaceship’s control panel board. This device is powered by a Makey Makey and contains three buttons, one ground, and a lever.  Each controls its own particular function in the project.  There are…

Final Project Concept

For my final project, I would like to make an interactive dashboard using custom animations and the Makey Makey kit.  The main unit would be a control panel consisting of a lever, two switches, and two buttons.  Each control will have its own custom animation to trigger a video, simulating the user navigating their life. …

Computer Vision Gestures – the Cha Cha Slide

Taking inspiration from the middle school dances of yesteryear, I wanted to make an interactive Cha Cha Slide using the webcam, the individual sound effects from the track and also using stock glowing footage that could help visualize the sound whenever they were triggered.  I used the basic Hotspot template as a baseline and moved the…

Meme Remix

For this project, I decided to play four movies.  Two of them are science fiction, namely the Star Wars cantina scene and the USS Enterprise coming out of warp, and the other two memes are the Vengaboys’ ‘We Like to Party’ and a screaming goat.  While I was able to install the driver for the…

Paper Nature Revision

I ended up revising my Paper Nature project by first remaking the fish/bird out of sturdier paper, this time adding color to both sides in order to contrast the blue background of the sea and sky behind it. In addition, I also created a rotating base that, when spun, triggers the animation depending on which…

Paper Nature – Animated Environments

For my Paper Nature project, I used an origami fish design and repurposed the other side into the open wings of a dove in flight.  Foil points on each side trigger different animations in the window, a soaring wind and cloud trip for the bird side and a bubbling underwater scene for the fish side.

Paper Nature

The idea behind my Paper Nature project is the habitats of different animals corresponding with whichever one is set on a stand on a Makey Makey. When the folded paper fish is set up in the connection, the circuit then causes the monitor behind it to display a watery video, and then when a paper…

Interactive Animation – Whimsical Boston

For my interactive scene, I thought that a trip to Boston would be a good subject, and I snapped the background this weekend while at Yawkey station on the MBTA Commuter Rail. The interactive elements include: Clicking the white van to trigger a ball bounce along the highway, Clicking the nearest black car to activate…

Animated Abstraction

For my Animation Audio project, I decided to start from scratch and create a completely new graphic set of objects.  This time I used my favorite colors of varying shades of blue to create an animation where a bouncing torus provides a steady beat and the steady growth of the sphere and hollow cube takes…

Geometric Abstraction

For my Geometric Abstraction project,  I was inspired by the works of Nassos Daphnis due to his use or organized rings above a level of blocky chaos, using geometry with bold colors in order to evoke order. Pixel Fields by Nassos Daphnis Using the familiar shapes of white rings with underlying blocks, I used a…