Posted By: Jordan Parsons
Our latest IDM assignment was to create a light modulator. Working with my partner Aaron Chenault, we designed the following setup for our light modulator. We have yet to laser cut it, but when I do I will have pictures of the cut and assembly. So here are the details of the assignment along with some quick 3D stuff to get a feel for how it will look.
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It is now cut, with the renders and photos taken, pictures after the break.
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Posted By: Jordan Parsons
One of the facets of rendering that has interested me was HDRI, but when I used Mental Ray in 3dsmax it was a little to complicated for me to get right. So now that I have switched to V-Ray, I decided to give it a try. I found some free HDRI skymaps here:Evermotion. With those I decided to give it a try, images after the jump.
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Posted By: Jordan Parsons
140 characters, the size of a tweet, not much else. Well thanks to a post fromAndy Best. I attempted to write a sketch in 140 characters, and my best came out to 137. Only one now but its pretty late, check out his post and the comments for some pretty cool examples. I really suggest trying to write something like this. After writing my last bit-o-code this made me see how bloated thing can get. Especially when I think about the php I’ve had to write. Anyway give it a try or at least check out the examples over at AndyBest.net.
Here it is: http://jordanparsons.com/processing/twitter_sized_1/, source after the jump.
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Posted By: Jordan Parsons
With all my recent free time (I’m on break) I’ve been really going at processing. Here is another batch of code I wrote. This one works as an applet, so you can see it in action, http://www.jordanparsons.com/processing/oop_boxes/. Its a simple series of boxes with small circles in them that function as individual “boids” or entities that move a set speeds and bounce off the walls of the image. You can click to add another boid as well. Hit the jump for the source and more info.
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Well this is another processing project. I started with 01hgp10.txt. Which is a snippet of the first human chromosome from Human Genome Project at Project Gutenberg. I wanted to create a system in which I could analyze the number of individual markers (G, C, T, and A) and see how many of them there were per line of code. With these total then I assigned each letter a multiplier or value which allows me to control its value, or height off the Z axis. So the process goes like this.
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Our final project for the fall semester began with this brief.
The thesis of your final project this semester investigates the american tradition of the freestanding country house situated in the open landscape. Applying the spatial lessons of the prior exercises as well as the new topic of spatial transparency, you are to design a landscape in similar architectonic terms as a devise for developing and extending reciprocal spatial relationships with those of your project eleven cube.
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Well, its been 5 days short of a month that I came to Carnegie Mellon. After a week of orientation I started classes. So far we have done 7 projects with one due Monday, and one Wednesday. Our projects have ranged from making a 2×4 from rough cut lumber, to projecting planes through our studios. The plane project was very interesting. It was not super creative, but it was an interesting exercise because it made us think both about the outline of the studio, and the negative space that outline represented.
Anyway, I’m now working on a project involving 73 2×4s, and creating a volume with them that uses no adhesives or binders. Its actually quite interesting. I’ll be sure to update with more info and pictures. Also I plan to add some portfolio items up and just some random opinions.
April 4, 2009 at 2:15 am | Comments (1)
