Course Guide

Welcome to Interaction & Expression Using the Pausch Bridge Lighting, cross-listed as 15-661 and 62-661. This course has been offered a number of times since Fall 2011 by Prof. Cindy Limauro in collaboration with varied co-instructors. The Spring 2024 iteration is the fourth with Dr. Garth Zeglin as technical co-instructor.

Please note, our first class meeting is Thursday March 14 at 5PM. We run this as an “A4” mini in the second half of the semester so it is a little warmer for nighttime light show testing.

This semester we will continue to focus outcomes on producing new visual compositions for the bridge lighting which could potentially enter the long-term repertoire. Continuing this year will be an option for audio accompaniment.

The following course pages include the agenda for each meeting, plus technical documentation and sample code for supporting projects on the Randy Pausch Memorial Bridge.

Contents

• Class 1: Introduction
  • Course Introduction
  • Project Brief
  • Project Group Meetings
  • Assignment 1
• Class 2: Theory and Practice
  • Theory and Practice
  • Project Group Meetings
  • Assignment 2
• Class 3: Project Proposals
  • Announcements
  • Project Proposal Presentations
  • Assignment 3
• Class 4: Technical and Project Q&A
  • Announcements
  • Lighting Design Questions
  • Technical Questions
  • Assignment 4
• Class 5: Preliminary Design Presentations
  • Announcements
  • Proof-of-Concept Review
  • Final Show
• Syllabus
• Project Brief
• Downloads and Links
• Pausch Bridge User Guide
  • Lighting Fixtures
  • Fixture Mapping
  • Media: Image and Video
  • Pharos Project Template
  • Astronomical Events
  • Pharos Designer 2 Installation
  • Remote Access
  • Lighting System Specifications
• Case Studies
  • The Last Lecture
  • Spring Colors 2021
  • Full Day Simulation
  • Apple Motion
  • Processing (p5js)
  • Video Processing in Max and Jitter
  • Spreadsheet Animation
  • Illuminate: Randy Pausch Bridge Light-Up Night
• Sample Python Code
  • Interactive Animation in Python
  • Sequence Animation in Python
  • Color Palettes
  • Generating Video in Python with OpenCV
  • Generating Images in Python with OpenCV
  • Image Animation in Python with OpenCV
  • Image Analysis in Python with SciKit
  • Python 3 Installation
• Videos of Related Work
  • Cindy Limauro
  • Erwin Redl
  • Guillaume Marmin
  • Ian Brill
  • Jim Campbell
  • Leo Villareal
  • Sonic Runway
  • Light Art Festivals
  • Illuminated Bridges
  • Public Light Art
  • Unsorted Media to Review

For reference: Search Page and Index

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Pausch Bridge Lighting Spring 2024 Course Guide by Garth Zeglin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.