http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress New Media Design. Saving the world. You know how it is. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:30:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No, this isn't my graduation day - in fact, that was over a week ago. However, this is initially a recognition of my graduation - yes, I have graduated from RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) with a BFA from the New Media Design & Imaging program. I've got a job lined ... http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=28 It's my second VE project, my first foray into the wild and woolly world of Flash Media Server. Big learning curve, learned a ton. I think it has potential to be a good portfolio piece, but it's gonna need some serious retooling. So, for the time being, to finish up my last ... http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=27 Well, we're in rapid development mode here... finally have turn handling working here. It's very blackbox right now, skinning and prettying up will be coming in the next few days. gravMarbler communication prototype http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=26 It's my birthday, and I woke up this morning to a CNN headline, "Kenyan death toll reaches 1,000." Great news to start out my day, but in perspective, it's worse news for the people who live there. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that folks reading this (if there ... http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=25 Prints due today for VE... big changes to my processing stuff since last time. Set the code up so that it groups the audio input into 4 groups, from lowest tones to highest. It then creates a bunch of "agents," each assigned one of the four groups, and it has different ... http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=24 What I was working on in lab this week... seasonal as well: Snowflake Right now it's random... the feathery bits were inspired by Jared Tarbell's Substrate. The intent was to tie it into audio analysis. It was also suggested to try to tie it into Processing's 3D engine, but from research ... http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=23 More playing with Processing, leapfrogging off what I did earlier - it's a bit geometric and straight yet, not as organic as I want to go, but it's a start - next I'm going to introduce angles, rotation, trig, that sort of business Neon Grubs http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=22 Today I started experimenting with Processing... Did a quick test, creating a number of "agents" and making them move around and interact with each other. Check it out! http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=21 Well, it's been a mighty push... and it's not nearly there yet. Many roadblocks overcome but many more found... all the same, here's your first look at Velos. Enjoy. Velos http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=19 It's Week 10, so I've been pretty solidly stressed-out and at wit's-end for a while now, but I was in an oddly good mood this afternoon/evening... anyway, finishing up my final metals project, and wanted to do some etching - my experience with metals is limited (though it's been a ... http://ajl1206.cias.rit.edu/wordpress/?p=18