We plotted some points
Then made a pie chart
We loaded a photo. You have to create a new variable and load your photo as a string or it spits out data about your image. I think the 255 value is the white in my photo, as if the brightest value is white (with values 0-256) it would make sense that all the white around would be 255.
Correctly loaded photo. I docked it so it's squished.
Very awesome software, and great for manipulating and analyzing data and for presentations. Also, you could take something like this to use an analysis of data as a starting point for design geometry, which is also pretty interesting.
It analyzes data for you? That's darn cool!
ReplyDeleteThat's darn cool! I wonder if you can push the limits of what it can analyze..P.S. Apparently we need to see Ex Machina. Although I hear the ending is eh
ReplyDeleteYup. That's the point. Well, it does a lot of things. It can act like a calculator, like most programming languages (it's based off of C), and you can input data and get it to be represented. It's similar to the one I was learning last year (which also was doing the charts, histograms, etc). It's widely used by the science and math community. There are various plug ins that allow you to do everything from optical and signal processing (making sensors for cameras, etc) to analyzing flow (which N@sa does) to even controlling robots and using gestures to create motion. It's pretty neat. There's a learning curve, though, so I'm now starting off.
ReplyDeleteNot bad; only two hours long. I've been seeing some of "those" people from that school we don't care about wanting to head up to the area we want to head up to (if you know what I mean). As long as they don't arrive in floods, I"m happy, but sort of annoying. Do they have to be so lame and copy everything? I'd like to be as far away from them as possible; they're elitist but stupid simultaneously, which is annoying. Also, techies still make the most amount of $$ in that area (yay). Some of the pay is pitiful for artists/designers in comparison so I guess mommy and daddy will pay their exhorbitant loans AND support them in one of the most $$$ areas of the country :).
ReplyDeleteAlso, this may sounds strange, but I sometimes feel like those art classes (esp the concept ones) were some of the worst mistakes I made, in terms of picking classes. It was just so much of a waste in terms of my time and money. I should have just stuck to one or two fine arts classes (which would have been cheaper) like the sculpting with D@vid and kept with things like welding and woodworking and stuff like that and then quit (probably within a year) instead of dragging it out for two years, and then just drawn on my own. They make it so it's like a gateway drug deliberately, so you keep wanting to sign up (esp if you have friends/ made friends) over and over and keep blowing more and more money.
ReplyDeleteI guess everything is in hindsight, but I"m DEF not an "artist" or whatever. I'm more of a designer (which essentially is what a real engineer is; if these kids are for real they would have become engineers, which are in fact the true merging of design and building, design and functionality; the guy who left our company to work for App!e was an ENGINEER, and they put him IN CHARGE, also of the design process (both design and manufacturing). I would have way more put aside in terms of $$, probably just travelled more and not have cared as much about a bunch of lemming students.
I feel like in the art/concept class, you learn how to be very very good at one thing, but you don't know how to really step away from the comfort of that one thing, which is BAD (like how K@rl talks about everyone perpetually using newsprint and charcoal like robots) But oh well; we live and learn.