Category: Section B

For my project I want to create a generative landscape, playing with perspective and depth of field. I am attracted to the image of a pond of lily pads. I like that it would involve fairly simple geometric shapes but would create a calming image. I like the idea of potentially doing a generative landscape from above, as if the viewer is flying over the surface of the pond. I also like the idea of changing the opacity to create the illusion of fish beneath the surface of the water.

My other option is a standard horizontally moving landscape, in which case I’d like to play with the idea of reflection – showing trees or grass reflecting in the pond.

I want this to have a very calm, organic feel to it. I think by playing with opacity and color schemes this can be accomplished.

I hope to create a very simple room, like the image below, where the player is a pixelated individual, with the capability to move around and interact with the environment, the furniture in the room, and anything on the walls.

The hope is that I create a code infrastructure that can be re-used for different rooms and further improvements, maybe to create a more full-scale game later.

My inspiration is Undertale, which I mentioned in a prior blog post.

For this final project, I will be working with Yugyeong Lee in section B. We are going to design and generate a reactor that will respond to sound ranging from simple noises to music pieces that embody numerous pitches and noise amplitude. We will assign limitations by mapping each of these levels to provide different animations reacting to different set of ranges. Through this project, we will explore the mechanism of sound reactors and how they can be visually represented to the eye. We will possibly attempt to provide an interactive version of the product once we accomplish the creation of the reactor to general preloaded sound files so that once the built-in microphone hears and understands music coming out from another device, it will present according images / animations that we have assigned for that certain range of value. Additionally, here’s a link that provides a small emblem that responds to the assigned music given in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yX6NyhCwAI

I will be collaborating with Nahyun Kim for the final project.

For this project, we are planning to create an interactive program that reacts to sound. With possibility to include audio in-put from built in microphone, the program will detect frequency, amplitude, etc. to generate different graphical animation. Through using p5.sound functions, we’ll load sound, get sound from input source, get the current volume, analyze the frequency, and utilize these variables to control size, color, location of graphical representations. The interesting aspect of this project is exploring different sound related functions that we haven’t really worked with with past projects. If we end up loading different music to display the program (instead of incorporating built-in microphone), we will incorporate mouse-press to change to the next song either by clicking different regions of the canvas or different icons. Once we have the basic reactor program set up, we will explore variety of expression in displaying different variables of sound and hope to include more interactive aspects to the project.

So for my Final Project, I would like to create a website where the users can draw and write their thoughts about a particular word or a phrase on a blank canvas using a cursor. Once they are done they will be automatically be uploaded to a page where there is a collection of these drawings and writings so they can see what other people have drawn or wrote about the topic.

For the topics on the first page, I will select a topic that is broad enough so there could be different interpretations and opinions but I would also like to post something that is politically charged. People who participate will be anonymous so we can have an honest and open discussion board for the people to participate.

This work could be interpreted as a political artifact, but I would want to explore this prompt as a way for my self to see what people think about the world that is around them.

For my final project I am going to create a game based on graph coloring which I learned about in my discrete math class. At the time I thought it seemed more like a game than a math problem. The objective of the game will be to color in the vertices of a graph such that no adjacent vertices have the same color. The game will consist of a graph and at the bottom of the screen will be a certain number colored squares determined by the chromatic number of the graph (the minimum number of colors necessary to complete the objective). The player will select a color by clicking on the box, and then click on a vertex to color it in. When the two vertices of an edge are different colors, the edge will turn green and when they are the same the edge will turn red. You will know you have completed the level when all the edges are green. The player can then click to move onto the next level.

I’m not sure if I will be able to make the levels automatically generate as I can’t remember if there’s an algorithm for determining the chromatic number and it also may generate levels that are too easy. If I can’t make them automatically generate, I will simply manually design 25 or so levels.

Here is a sketch of what the beginning of a level, a completed level, and an incorrect coloring would look like.