Kinetic architecture
For a while I have been looking for this building I saw once and never remembered it… It is the Milwaukee Art Museum by Calatrava. Inspiring! The “wings” of the building move like …
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"High Tech" Book Launch
Brilliantly executed site… definitely made me want to buy the book! No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July. She also directed a movie called “Me You and Everyone We Know…
Ubiquitous Computing for Mobile Devices Final Project
After having two fellow ITPers come up to me asking me if I was a professor I started thinking about the first impressions we have of people and how we perceive ourselves in one wa…
Nature of Code Final Idea
For my final I decided to continue my “Male Female” code by adding food, reproduction, and genetic algorithms. Here are some of the basic rules I am imagining: Male and Females …
Expanding Interactive Video Final
Going to continue with my Eye Tracking idea… here are some pictures of the device I have built… Eye Tracking Need to change/enhance the application: Improve eye tracking code E…
Interesting debate about God
Could not resist but to post this here: “Are Humans Hard-Wired to Believe in a Higher Being?” “Some scientists are calling religion the great equalizer and point out that similar a…
New York Philharmonic
Last night Caleb, Patricia, Scott, James, Gretchen, and I went to the see the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center. An amazing performance by Russian pianist Radu Lupu. It w…
Hawk in Washington Square Park
What are all these people looking at? After seeing some feather flying around and looking up, I saw it as well - a hawk in the middle of the city! Legacy links from the origina…
One More Surface
So… my previous surfaces were “too complex” for milling so I had to go with this one… Basically a planar surface to which I applied several sine wave deformations to obtain the res…
Jonathan Harris
Today we had the privilege of having Jonathan Harris talk to us during Nature of Code class. He is a Computer Scientist/Artist who has done some amazing work mainly focused on data…