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    Visual Language – 2020 ITP Winter Show Poster Design
    • Dec 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Visual Language – 2020 ITP Winter Show Poster Design

    Above is my design for the 2020 ITP Winter Show poster. I took a somewhat literal approach to the prompt of showing a “humanist” aspect...
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    • Nov 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    Visual Language – “Secret Lives of Color” Podcast Review

    In this podcast, the author of the book “Secret Lives of Color” Kassia St. Clair talks about stories throughout history about people’s...
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    Pcomp Project 3
    • Nov 23, 2020
    • 3 min

    Pcomp Project 3

    Nov 23: I took inspiration from “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov – a short science fiction story published in 1956 about humanity’s...
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    Animation Group Project – Escape Zoom
    • Nov 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Animation Group Project – Escape Zoom

    It was a great learning experience working on this group animation project with Sara. I was able to review all most of the techniques...
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    Pcomp Week 10 – Motor Labs
    • Nov 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Pcomp Week 10 – Motor Labs

    This week, we did the transistor control motor lab, H bridge control motor lab, and stepper motor lab. In the transistor control lab, the...
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    • Nov 16, 2020
    • 2 min

    Visual Language – “99% Invisible” Podcast

    Podcast Takeaways: 99% Invisible – Making a Mark: Visual Identity with Tom Geismar. The podcast opens with an anecdote from Geismar on...
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    Animation week 3 – After Effects scene render
    • Nov 14, 2020
    • 1 min

    Animation week 3 – After Effects scene render

    This week, we continued working on our group project. After familiarizing additional functions in After Effects in this week’s class, our...
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    ICM week 10 – Traffic Sound Visualizer
    • Nov 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    ICM week 10 – Traffic Sound Visualizer

    This week we learned about audio input and visualization with P5.js. I took the traffic simulator I made a few weeks ago and added a mic...
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    • Nov 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Animation: Response to “Understanding Comics”

    “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” by Scott McCloud explores various aspects of not only the medium of comics, but some principles...
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    ICM Group Assignment – “Evolve”
    • Nov 9, 2020
    • 1 min

    ICM Group Assignment – “Evolve”

    This week, I worked together with Bei and Zixun on a collaborative project using P5.js and PoseNet pose detection machine learning model....
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    Animation Week 2 (short animation & group project planning)
    • Nov 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Animation Week 2 (short animation & group project planning)

    This week, I made a short animation in Adobe After Effects using character and background images layered in Photoshop. The animation...
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    • Nov 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    Animation week 2 – Animation Artist Post

    The artist I selected from panimation.tv is Hailley Furkalo from Winnipeg, Canada. https://www.hailleyfurkalo.com/ Hailley is a...
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    Visual Language – Week 1 – Design Analysis
    • Nov 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Visual Language – Week 1 – Design Analysis

    PDF: poster analysis PDF
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    Animation Week 1 – Stop Motion
    • Oct 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    Animation Week 1 – Stop Motion

    This week I created two short stop motion animation videos using stop motion studio with my iPhone as the camera and a bit of Adobe...
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    • Oct 31, 2020
    • 3 min

    ICM week 8 – Trippy Mirror

    This week I created a trippy mirror using P5 using input from a webcam: https://editor.p5js.org/ukpfilms/sketches/0Ia0ZObuj The project...
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    Pcomp Assignment 2 (updated week 8)
    • Oct 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Pcomp Assignment 2 (updated week 8)

    Week 7 start: I’ve always been interested in exploring the boundary between human subjective creativity and artificial, machine based...
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    Pcomp Week 7
    • Oct 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Pcomp Week 7

    This week I did the Two Way Serial Communication Lab. The example lab used an accelerometer but any sensor with two outputs can work for...
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    pcomp week 6
    • Oct 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    pcomp week 6

    This week’s lab includes the Intro to Asynchronous Serial lab, Serial Input to P5.js, and Serial output from P5.js. For the Intro to...
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    ICM week 6 project (Canadian Traffic Simulator)
    • Oct 17, 2020
    • 2 min

    ICM week 6 project (Canadian Traffic Simulator)

    This week, I wrote a sketch in P5 which emulates a busy street with cars and pedestrians. Three manually written functions are contained...
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    Population Infinite Final Project: Artificial Superego
    • Oct 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    Population Infinite Final Project: Artificial Superego

    Concept Transhumanism is a philosophical movement which advocates for the transformation of human capabilities, both physical and mental,...
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