This week I was able to assemble the final piece pretty well, and have decided to hold off on the IoT aspect until maybe this final week. I first laser cut the large scale mirror, which came out great. However the mirror is large and thin, which causes it to bend and warp easily, so…
Everything Working: Isabel Azevedo
I finally have light for my light art project! The RGB converter piece that I was missing came in the mail last week and I was able to set up the technical side of my project. I used the adhesive on the LEDs to stick them to the back board of my shadow box. Because…
Everything Working: William Schwartz
This week a lot of things happened, I assembled the whole head, and put all the lights in it and it took a very very long time to do that… Some cool additions that I made to the head, was I made it chargeable via micro USB, and I also added a lithium ion battery…
Working More or Less
This week I spent about 12 hours in the studio learning about the properties of this new clay body and attempting to make the rough cuts for my final piece. I did 4 of the sides with minimal cracking, that I fixed. I had an issue with the clay not holding together as well as…
Everything Working: Jon Venne
As of now, everything technical does work. The laser (both hand held and barcode scanner) visualize the smoke forms nicely (though I prefer the hand held version). My main issues as of now are really those of design. I have come to a cross roads in the idea of using a “blackout box” as it…
Everything Works: Franck Coly
Following my troubles after i fell behind, I’ve been busy trying to catch myself up. Although I haven’t made significant progress compared to what others might have done, i consider my progress significant in terms of where I was not too long ago with the project. Although the first aspect of my project works, I…
Failure and Recalibration: Franck Coly
In the past week I came across a few problems that truly kept me from advancing and making progress. the first being getting a hold of my materials. As someone who hasn’t tried anything this technical, I found that that my own knowledge became my greatest enemy. As I went, I’ve had to decipher and…
Failure and Recalibration: Jon Venne
The main issue I tried to tackle was controlling the air flow in the box. I found (accidentally) that sticking my laser pointer in the bottom creating a small hole really helped move the smoke up and out the vent holes in the top, so this week my goal was to experiment with that. I…
Everything Working: Karin Plante
This week I had to overcome a few problems, but at this point, I believe the rough parts to be over. Although I “simplified” my design from a complex stained-glass window to more geometric shapes, the main problem I faced involving how to actually cut the dichroic glass still existed. I tried using a tungsten…
Everything Working: John Stegeman
For this week my big final push was to work on compiling the set of images that look good when panned across and fit the project. What really makes an image stand out is the following: High contrast. High dark/light contrast across the image shows up best Color. Lots of different colors look very good…