Zach HW:
a + b) Given the code examples, create 2 different drawing tools as input. Think about how you can take gesture as input and make something interesting (especially based on the idea that we have stored the point data). Make and save drawings as output from your tool (by taking a screen capture).
In this attempt, my plan was to use the difference in time from one point to the other, the result wasnt so good, I could get the difference in time but for any reason the result is that blinking circle that wasnt what I expected.
First Drawing Tool from Eduardo Menendez on Vimeo.
c) take some time and think about what kinds of information you can capture in a gesture. For example, thinking on paper, draw five different lines all the same length. what are the properties of the gesture that are interesting and which make each one unique. Think specifically about the mathmatical properties (ie, things a computer / math can sense) as opposed to more interpretive qualities. For example, the compactness of a gesture, the velocity of a gesture, the variety of curvature, etc. Please make as detailed a list as possible of what you think is possible to perceive. Please consider statistics as well. For this work, create a listing (complete with illustrations if they are helpful) of as many possible metrics you think will be worth investigating.
Taeyoo HW:
In next weeks class, you will present a collection of 30 drawings. 7 drawings will be from the drawings you have done already in the first homework. You will make 23 new drawings, each with a special ‘process’ that derives from other student’s drawing. You might ask: “What sort of process?” That is where your creativity and genius kicks in. I am a very simple minded person, so the process in my example, made at the Madrid airport, is very straight forward.
I started with 2 drawings (on the top right of the sketchbook), a “tree” and a “face”. First process was additive and result is <tree head>. Now, please look at the top left. There is <Apple tree and head), <girl and tree>, <girl tree>, <tree boat>, and <play at tree>. These are all variations of the original tree and head drawing, that has been processed with ‘imaginary’ other people’s drawings.
On the bottom right of the sketchbook, you see an “airplane”, “carrots”, and a “dancer”. The bottom left side of the sketchbook shows some more drawing variations that has been processed with the these new drawings and also the original two drawings of tree and head.
So, the homework is to use other student’s drawings to process (recreate/remix/whatever) your own drawings. The other person’s drawing can be used as a process of <scale>, <repetition>, <subject matter: this means you take the drawings subject matter, but draw completely new thing>, <interpretive: this meas you interpret the style of the other persons drawing and redraw>, or much more. Please be as wacky with drawings as you desire, but very clear about which drawings you have sampled and the methods of process.
Also note, 7 of your original drawings are foundations for these variations. This means, you can not make 23 variation of same process and of a a single drawing. The new 23 drawings in whole, needs to have at least some elements of the original 7 drawings. The elements of original drawing can be recreated into a super small part or repeated into a pattern, or interpreted. Think of other person’s drawing as ‘programs’ and ‘modules’. Play with various processes, and please, be ‘IRRATIONAL’.
My example is not so good, those drawing took about 30 seconds~ 1 minute. I ask you to spend 5~20 minutes in each drawing again.