Friday, October 31, 2014
nerddd
We made this in class tonight. It was hard video taping and operating the hand crank. Sorry :)
Thursday, October 30, 2014
this one was
kind of a pain in the butt to do, but...
it's good to continue on my own. I don't believe we're doing this chapter in class, so I am doing it on my own in any event. Plus, I'm taking another workshop working with metals tonight so it's good to get myself thinking and doing the math in preparation. I"m pretty excited; it will be fun!
it's good to continue on my own. I don't believe we're doing this chapter in class, so I am doing it on my own in any event. Plus, I'm taking another workshop working with metals tonight so it's good to get myself thinking and doing the math in preparation. I"m pretty excited; it will be fun!
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Mo' Parts
Doing so much S0lidw0rks these days that I'm looking at every radius on a building and trying to pull out dimension lines in my mind. Yikes. I LOVE the Precision of this programme, though. I could spend hours working with it! The G@sket is the flat one with the three circles together.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
I got up this morning
to do some more modelling. That way I can see the Z@h@ talk tonight LOL. I do have one more set of coding homework to do, but after that, I'm done for the week and can spend my weekend h@cking at the H@ckath0n! I also have to pick up some swag from the event since the registration started yesterday after I had left for the day (to head to class).
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
just some parts
No naked parts. I am SO tired; I am mentally exhausted and have to get up in about five hours to do some more modelling, so that I can make the Z@h@ lecture tomorrow night. It's been very rewarding but very tiring! I was reminded today when my teacher literally turned to us and said "think back to your Undergraduate studies; must be a long time ago, huh?" Haha. It was only then I realized that my peers had ALL done their Masters' and BEYOND. What am I doing in such a class when I"m taking part time classes at a little dingy school? I still don't know but I follow my intuition. Basically a lot of this stuff is being done in a PhD programme and somehow my little butt got dragged in and I LOVE it. I made SO many wonderful friends from all over the world and it's been wonderful. The time just passed by so swiftly and I hardly got any sleep but it was SO SO worth it!
Anyways, in the meantime, here are some parts in another programme for my eng!neering class LOL.
Anyways, in the meantime, here are some parts in another programme for my eng!neering class LOL.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
day two
We did a series of plotting points and planes and mapping today. It was understanding loops within the coding. A lot of it made sense, which was great. It's actually a LOT of fun! I'm very tired and I have to get up in a few hours to finish doing homework for another class, and hopefully complete more homework for even another class, which is due on Saturday.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Day One
We used Pyth0n to create a series of points. Then we created this array of points in the X Y and Z plane. Then we used a series of P0lylines to connect random points to each other (ignoring the random connections that would arise from points connecting back to the same point ie redundancy). Then we created a filter so that these points with random lines connecting would only be in the upper range and lower ranges in the X and Y values, leaving a "hole" in between the geometry.
The final render is a result, giving a radius or thickness to these lines. You can see how this would create some interesting random geometry and we can even script in a door or windows so that it becomes a house, etc.
All of this was scripted in three editors; the original script edit0r, the plug-in visual n0de editor and the script edit0r for that n0de editor.
The final render is a result, giving a radius or thickness to these lines. You can see how this would create some interesting random geometry and we can even script in a door or windows so that it becomes a house, etc.
All of this was scripted in three editors; the original script edit0r, the plug-in visual n0de editor and the script edit0r for that n0de editor.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
this class (mas0nic temple house LOL)
was really just to learn drafting parametric design tools in this software today. But we built a mock up house of our own design. This is one I rendered out quickly.
Saturday, October 18, 2014
I didn't finish (my only rant)
But I should by next weekend. I left early out of sheer frustration. This one guy asked if I was leaving and I said yes, because this particular teacher can't teach $h!t and I have better things to do with my time. In any case, I like doing this a lot so I'll probably finish out the term and then I got approval to go to another, better place that also does r0bots! Yayy! You should have seen his face, though...utter shock because I was brutally honest. Haha.
I'm tired of people who teach because they are either inundated in loan payments or have no other choice. The education system I came from had teachers who were the BEST. I guess I'm privileged in that respect, but my goodness, there are some real stinkers out here where I am. The system is piss poor and intellectually banal, the thought process simplistic and puerile and it makes me grateful for every day that I received the bulk of my education elsewhere. The focus out here is on aesthetics and the design process is incredibly shallow. The artists do not read enough (unless it is art books LOL), but often copy each other's work and ideas, or that of those (from peers, etc) they see. But I LOVE learning and learning new skills!
For one; the educational system and the standards here are unfathomably low. It's disgusting. I also had a bait and switch with another one last minute; I'll find out how that goes tomorrow, but the guy is a recent graduate from a very expensive rip-off art school that I shall not name, except to say that their graduates seem to teach..everywhere (which says a lot LOL). I almost feel badly for the guy because his teachers probably screwed him over with unrealistic expectations of the industry and the real world when he was in school (of course they would; they make money off of scamming via selling him false hopes and dreams instead of preparing him for what lies ahead in the real world, which they don't have to deal with because they are insulated in the bubble of "art school".
What is WORSE is that they have this mediocre, homogeneous point of view and POISON the students with this mindset and as a result, also poison the mentality of their students and thus continue the cycle.
So mediocre teachers teaching and therefore poisoning students who graduate and become mediocre teachers and so on. It's really pathetic. And I really don't care that the teacher 'works for X Y Z' company. They're also trying to mind their own @$$ so they don't get fired and can pay their mortgage on their house, etc; unless they're the CEO of the company it's not enough.
They are not creating leaders; so what is the point?
Oh well....I don't sugar coat. Some of these teachers "gots to go" haha. I spoke to a kid who I hadn't spoken to since 2011 and he was STILL on this pathetic mindset of trying to get into this school he obviously can't afford and his work hadn't improved, at all. He was still on the Kool-aid; the mentality of an artistic sycophantic follower. I asked him "but isn't the point of going to X school to get a job and have a great portfolio and have a career in your field? If you couldn't get into the school, maybe you should just try getting a foot into the industry?" He didn't get it. He thought going to that school was his only hope. Sad.
Plus, he said he wanted to get into (insert ridiculously expensive art school) but didn't even want to do models, which is what I think makes students' work that much better and gives them more marketability (guess what; more people care that you can provide a service that can help sell a PRODUCT; not all products are virtual; some actually have to be made). Anyways...that is besides the point: (sorry for the rant...oops).
Don't sacrifice who YOU are. You still have an IDENTITY. Every artist should read Emers0n's "Se!f Rel!@nce" dammit!
I LOVE design, but because of my education (science and art in high school) there is a part of me that is VERY logical. That should be emphasized, even in "Art" school. Teach economics to these people; please, and teach them to be more than one dimensional. Find truth in yourself and not in some teacher or some school where you are just a number! (end of rant)
I'm tired of people who teach because they are either inundated in loan payments or have no other choice. The education system I came from had teachers who were the BEST. I guess I'm privileged in that respect, but my goodness, there are some real stinkers out here where I am. The system is piss poor and intellectually banal, the thought process simplistic and puerile and it makes me grateful for every day that I received the bulk of my education elsewhere. The focus out here is on aesthetics and the design process is incredibly shallow. The artists do not read enough (unless it is art books LOL), but often copy each other's work and ideas, or that of those (from peers, etc) they see. But I LOVE learning and learning new skills!
For one; the educational system and the standards here are unfathomably low. It's disgusting. I also had a bait and switch with another one last minute; I'll find out how that goes tomorrow, but the guy is a recent graduate from a very expensive rip-off art school that I shall not name, except to say that their graduates seem to teach..everywhere (which says a lot LOL). I almost feel badly for the guy because his teachers probably screwed him over with unrealistic expectations of the industry and the real world when he was in school (of course they would; they make money off of scamming via selling him false hopes and dreams instead of preparing him for what lies ahead in the real world, which they don't have to deal with because they are insulated in the bubble of "art school".
What is WORSE is that they have this mediocre, homogeneous point of view and POISON the students with this mindset and as a result, also poison the mentality of their students and thus continue the cycle.
So mediocre teachers teaching and therefore poisoning students who graduate and become mediocre teachers and so on. It's really pathetic. And I really don't care that the teacher 'works for X Y Z' company. They're also trying to mind their own @$$ so they don't get fired and can pay their mortgage on their house, etc; unless they're the CEO of the company it's not enough.
They are not creating leaders; so what is the point?
Oh well....I don't sugar coat. Some of these teachers "gots to go" haha. I spoke to a kid who I hadn't spoken to since 2011 and he was STILL on this pathetic mindset of trying to get into this school he obviously can't afford and his work hadn't improved, at all. He was still on the Kool-aid; the mentality of an artistic sycophantic follower. I asked him "but isn't the point of going to X school to get a job and have a great portfolio and have a career in your field? If you couldn't get into the school, maybe you should just try getting a foot into the industry?" He didn't get it. He thought going to that school was his only hope. Sad.
Plus, he said he wanted to get into (insert ridiculously expensive art school) but didn't even want to do models, which is what I think makes students' work that much better and gives them more marketability (guess what; more people care that you can provide a service that can help sell a PRODUCT; not all products are virtual; some actually have to be made). Anyways...that is besides the point: (sorry for the rant...oops).
Don't sacrifice who YOU are. You still have an IDENTITY. Every artist should read Emers0n's "Se!f Rel!@nce" dammit!
I LOVE design, but because of my education (science and art in high school) there is a part of me that is VERY logical. That should be emphasized, even in "Art" school. Teach economics to these people; please, and teach them to be more than one dimensional. Find truth in yourself and not in some teacher or some school where you are just a number! (end of rant)
Friday, October 17, 2014
baby c0ding
Just a tease...
a baby progr@mme :)
To calculate grades based on inputs given. My brother will laugh at me if I show him (he is a professional S0ftware guy/c0der), but you know, you have to start SOMEWHERE. The more advanced version of this class is kicking my BUTT (we're making games like P0ng, Bl@ckjack, etc), but it has a visualizer, which has helped a LOT taking both classes simultaneously. And yes, EVERYONE should c0de! I just want to use it to make r0b0ts eventually (I know, how selfish of me!)
a baby progr@mme :)
To calculate grades based on inputs given. My brother will laugh at me if I show him (he is a professional S0ftware guy/c0der), but you know, you have to start SOMEWHERE. The more advanced version of this class is kicking my BUTT (we're making games like P0ng, Bl@ckjack, etc), but it has a visualizer, which has helped a LOT taking both classes simultaneously. And yes, EVERYONE should c0de! I just want to use it to make r0b0ts eventually (I know, how selfish of me!)
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
we did
Quite a few experiments. Here are a few.
In the first, we took a sensor that would bend a surface digitally forwards or backwards based on how much you twisted it in a particular direction.
In the second, we took a web camera and based on the image, surfaces would be moved to and away from the human images/ interaction. The red image is not too clear with the 'sticks', but if you look closely you can see our faces outlined outside of the 'red sticks'.
The better example is one in which the human images provided a displacement; so the height of the surface would move up and down based on parts of the face (the eyes would give sinks in the terrain, and the nose would give a protruding mesh surface).
The third was that a tweet signal would give a trigger that would make a sphere of a certain radius once the signal was received. We also did one using the K!nect to pass a virtual ball from one person to the next, or draw imaginary lines from a series of points (like a trail) from the motion used by a person's hand.
The last was making an RGB LED change colour based on trigger words in Tw!tter that were assigned given a defined area (Longitude and Latitude) from which to acquire information. We took the words "Happy", "Sad" and "Mad". Mine turned Green from too many "sad"s LOL; Red was happy, green was sad, blue was mad. I guess where we were a lot of people were sad? It is Sunday, after all LOL.
Anyways, here are the pics of some of the stuff we did.
In the first, we took a sensor that would bend a surface digitally forwards or backwards based on how much you twisted it in a particular direction.
In the second, we took a web camera and based on the image, surfaces would be moved to and away from the human images/ interaction. The red image is not too clear with the 'sticks', but if you look closely you can see our faces outlined outside of the 'red sticks'.
The better example is one in which the human images provided a displacement; so the height of the surface would move up and down based on parts of the face (the eyes would give sinks in the terrain, and the nose would give a protruding mesh surface).
The third was that a tweet signal would give a trigger that would make a sphere of a certain radius once the signal was received. We also did one using the K!nect to pass a virtual ball from one person to the next, or draw imaginary lines from a series of points (like a trail) from the motion used by a person's hand.
The last was making an RGB LED change colour based on trigger words in Tw!tter that were assigned given a defined area (Longitude and Latitude) from which to acquire information. We took the words "Happy", "Sad" and "Mad". Mine turned Green from too many "sad"s LOL; Red was happy, green was sad, blue was mad. I guess where we were a lot of people were sad? It is Sunday, after all LOL.
Anyways, here are the pics of some of the stuff we did.
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