Homework Emily

Week 13(ish): Data/Final Presentations

• RESOURCES FROM CLASS:

  • Data
  • Markov Chain
  • Computers Are Learning to Read—But They're Still Not So Smart
  • The True Colors of America’s Political Spectrum Are Gray and Green
  • Turing Test from The Next Word
  • Mitten versus Keys | Teachable Machine

• DO:

  • Your final presentation! (Due: Friday, December 2nd!) You can take something you did earlier this semester and expand it. You can scratch a new itch. You can make a Frankenstein project by combining earlier code. Remember it is still a 2-week assignment.
  • Prepare a 5-10 minute presentation to demonstrate what your project does that emphasizes its computational aspects.
    • Break down 1 algorithm in your code for us. Explain how it works. (It can be 1 line of code.)
    • Big Question to Think About: How did "coding" this project help you understand what you were doing in a different way?
    • You don't have to explain the whole thing. Pick one algorithm you wrote and deconstruct it for us.
    • If your project is interactive, please be prepared to have someone else in the class interact with it to demo what it does.
    • If your project can only be demo'd outside of class, please show a short video (< 2 minutes) of the experience.
    • If your project was a collaboration, explain what you did.
  • Post documentation in the form of a blog post. Ideally something visual, some written thoughts, and code. How do you feel about WHY you want to use code in your work now compared with the beginning of the semester? If you are struggling with your sketch and can't get things to work, you should feel free to put your energy into writing about what didn't work (and vent any frustrations!). If it is a collaboration, please describe your contribution to the project.
  • Lang - Final blog
  • Daniel - Experimenting with L-Systems
  • Anna - AI loves horror
  • Ranna - Chakras

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Week 12(ish)

• DO:

  • Complete this worksheet.

• RESOURCES FROM CLASS:

  • Text
  • Code Examples:
    • Empty Sketch with Texts
    • Typewriter by Character
    • Typewriter by Words
    • Crossing Out Words
    • Random Text Generator
    • Word Counting
    • Simple Markov Chain | Explanation
    • Painting over a Video Feed (for Mica)
  • Inspiration/Resources:
    • Spreeder
    • Bionic Reading
    • Jumbled Letters
    • Erasure Poems
    • Diana Khoi Nguyen – American Poet
    • Project Gutenberg – free ebooks
    • The HTML Review
    • Telescopic Text
    • I love it when you
    • Jazz Keys
    • Nanogenmo
    • Emily's Interactive Text Stuff
    • Emily's Nanogenmo

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Week 11

• RESOURCES FROM CLASS:

  • Sound Part 2
  • Code Examples:
    • Melody Maker | noise() | noise() tutorial
    • Modulo Drum
    • Record and Loop Mic Samples
  • Listening Examples
    • What's the story?
    • Thai Weightlifter X Space Odyssey
    • Why repeating words sound like music to your brain
    • Time Signatures
    • Every Time Signature – which one is your favorite?
    • Drumming by Steve Reich
    • Les Percussions de Kouroussa
    • Peaux from Pleiades by Iannis Xenakis
    • The Secret Science of Pop | Alt

• DO:

  • Work in pairs. Due next week. Create a 30-60s sound composition. No visuals. Just sound.
    • Prepare 1-3 words to describe the piece. Listen to what you've made. Adjust your words.
    • Create a blog post documenting your work. Also include links to other projects that serve as references, inspiration, or deal with similar ideas as your piece.
  • Ideas for what you could do:
    • Design a melody using this process and figure out an algorithmic way to generate it.
    • Record bits of spoken word and loop them to create music. See SoundRecorder() Looper
    • Use sound samples and manipulate their playback rate() to control pitch instead of the oscillator.
    • Try implementing a different scale with different pitch ratios: More about scales.
    • Play with Timbre and make use of p5 Sound's post-processing features: Delay, Filter, Reverb, Convolver etc.

• READ AND WATCH:

  • 3 Tutorial Videos for Text Manipulation

Homework Links

• Austen + Mica - Sketch
• Daniel + Lang - Sketch
• Dre + Michelle - Blog
• Cesar + Ranna + Zichen - 9 track loop machine
• Anna + Efrat - Blog

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Week 10

• RESOURCES FROM CLASS:

  • Sound Part 1
  • DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DO: Scale Ratios
  • Mic p5.FFT()
  • Interactive p5.Oscillator() - Hearing Test
  • Oscillator: Outerspace v. In The Woods

• DO:

  • Complete this worksheet.
  • Train your ears - Follow the directions at the top of the sketch. Save an image of your best attempt and upload it here.
  • Work in pairs. Due in 2 weeks. Create a 60s sound composition. No visuals. Just sound.
    • What parameters of sound are you working with? Texture, rhythm, melody, something else?
    • Prepare 1-3 words to describe the sound.
    • Create a blog post documenting your work. Also include links to other projects that serve as references, inspiration, or deal with similar ideas as your piece.

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Week 9

• RESOURCES FROM CLASS:

  • Pixels Part 2: Color
  • push() pop()
  • Mirror
  • Time-warp Scan
  • Color Theory Examples

• DO:

  • Work in pairs. Due next week. Create and/or manipulate an image or video at the pixel level. The image should change over the course of the minute.
  • Demo your experience in class:
    • Use the p5 editor's fullscreen link to show your project fullscreen
    • Use createCanvas(windowWidth, windowHeight);
    • Position and size screen elements in relation to the canvas width and height.
    • If your image is not big enough to fill the entire screen, be mindful about the color you select for the canvas.
  • Create a blog post documenting your work. Address / include the following:
    • 1-3 words to describe the image.
    • Links to other projects that serve as references, inspiration, or deal with similar ideas as your piece.
  • Consult resources from syllabus for inspiration. Pixels Week 1 | Pixels Week 2

• READ AND WATCH:

  • Videos 17.1-17.11, Focus on 17.1, 17.3, 17.4, 17.8, 17.11 | Code
  • Chapter 13 through Ex. 13.3 of Getting Started with p5.js book - Ebook (free with NYU Library login)
  • More sound stuff

Homework Links

• Your Name -- [Title of Blog Post](Link to Blog Post), [Title of Sketch](Link to Code)
• César Loayza -- Is the inside of my head this messed up?, It's Paprika
• Lang Qin -- Blog- It's Paprika
• Daniel Wai -- Blog - “Working with pixels”; Space
• Austen Li -- Blog, Grab a Flower
• Dre Jácome - Water Reflection
• Michelle, Ranna & Efrat - Dance(II), Splash, sploosh, ada, Pulsing Water
• Zichen Yuan & Mica - Emoji Mosaic Filter
• Anna - Water Reflection | Blog

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Week 8

• RESOURCES FROM CLASS:

  • All the ways to create images
  • loadImage() versus createImage()
  • Converting x,y to i
  • Pixelated cat with get(x,y)
  • Slow pixelated video mirror with get() | Faster version with pixels[] array
  • Walking color space with HSB and mouseX

• DO:

  • Complete this worksheet.
  • Work in pairs. Due in 2 weeks. Create and/or manipulate an image or video at the pixel level to create an alternative of the reality depicted in the source image. Describe in 1-3 keywords how your image feels different from the source image. Create a blog post documenting your work.
  • Pairs: Daniel + Austen, Cesar + Lang, Dre + Anna, Mica + Oliver, Michelle + Efrat + Ranna
  • Consult resources from syllabus for inspiration. Pixels Week 1 | Pixels Week 2

• READ AND WATCH:

  • Why isn't the sky blue? and other questions about how we see(?) or construct color.
    • Start at 48:00 for "Why isn't the sky blue?" However the entire show is pretty interesting.
  • Computational Color (Don't worry about Rune.js example code.) | Accompanying code examples written in p5.js
    • Make your pictures beautiful with a touch of deep learning magic - Mostly look at the pictures in relation to the color pairings in the Computational Color reading.
  • Introduction to Neural Networks and Pixel Analysis (20 minutes, but be prepared to spend an hour. Don't try to watch on 2x speed.)