Titled “heartBEAT,” my final project shows the importance of life and love through an interactive heart made from flowers. This is the rough script I used for the documentation video (some parts now edited out): For my final project I decided to tie in the theme of life and love with the aesthetics of flowers…
Author: Minh-Chau
Final Project Concept – Minh-Chau Doan
For my final project I wanted to work with either the theme of love or the theme of flowers. I decided to just combine the two. Right now there are a lot of ideas so we’ll see what I can accomplish in the time we have. The metaphor compares life to flowers where one must…
CV Gesture – Minh-Chau Doan
I made a Whack a Mole game using computer vision. This was done by modifying the hotspot patch by having the bangs send out signals which when received at the same time as the corresponding mole pop up (with top left motion matching with top left mole for example), a whacking sound would play and…
Meme Remix – Minh-Chau Doan
I remixed Kazoo Kid who became popular after Dead VCR posted the video “You on Kazoo,” which samples clips from the 1989 children’s show Special Friends which features kids playing kazoo. The video gained popularity when people started remixing and reposting it due to the slightly off and creepy nature of the video. I picked this because…
Animated Abstraction – Minh-Chau Doan
For my animated abstraction, I built off of my geometric abstraction. I had one of the small square move in the x direction while the other changed its size. The beat also triggers the squares to randomly change position too. The green lines also oscillate in size and on the beat, the colors change. max:
Paper Nature Revision – Minh-Chau Doan
For this project, I identified ways I could improve it: Making the videos connect better because they seem choppy to me, Adding audios and/or animations like an overlay of snow falling, Adding more videos to each season, Adding the season of fall, Better incorporation of ground, Better randomization (less choppy transitions and less repeats). I…
Interactive Animation – Minh-Chau Doan
I made an interactive animation of my room. You can interact with the lights, window, duck, penguins, and hamster. Max Patch:
Paper Nature – Minh-Chau Doan
My Paper Nature piece is titled “Season’s Greetings.” I love making cards and playing around with different paper art concepts to decorate them so this was the perfect opportunity to combine everything and create a greeting card that existed virtually and in real life. For the paper art itself, I created a card with a…
Paper Nature Concept Art – Minh-Chau Doan
My concept for the paper nature project is to make a card depicting the seasons. This holds sentimental value to me because I usually make cards for my friends as part of their presents. On the front, I envision a simple abstract origami Christmas tree with a star above. This is the Christmas card design…
Minh-Chau Doan Geometric Abstraction
My Geometric Abstraction inspiration was Ilya Bolotowsky. From his works, I liked that he used a shape to frame his pieces (most commonly, a square or circle). I was inspired by his constraint of using rigid shapes (rectangles, lines) inside the frame to create a “pattern” almost. I created a frame (rotated square) and shapes (rectangles…