http://car.z3d.com computational media Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:01:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5-beta-1 2005-01-18 http://car.z3d.com/?p=20 http://car.z3d.com/?p=20#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:13:55 +0000 homework http://car.z3d.com/?p=20 hasn't been completely forgotten yet...i've been getting really busy lately though..and not getting nearly enough work done. I just cranked out a little code for the starts of a game..the arrow keys move the ship and the space bar fires..haven't really gotten much farther (check out the swf or the fla). I haven't looked online for any code ideas yet either though..so maybe I can get a little farther when I look up some tutorials or something. http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=20 http://car.z3d.com/?p=19 http://car.z3d.com/?p=19#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:58:56 +0000 homework http://car.z3d.com/?p=19 I finished the flowchart for our project..seems like its got everything important in it. take a look http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=19 http://car.z3d.com/?p=18 http://car.z3d.com/?p=18#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:11:37 +0000 homework http://car.z3d.com/?p=18 in regards to the links..I think my favorite out of all of them was the September 12th game where normal people would turn into 'terrorists' by our continued efforts to remove the terrorists in a violent and destructive manner. and I think I finally decided what I'm going to do...but there's not a whole lot of time left so we'll see what happens. some of the topics I had in mind were the current conflicts with iraq/iran/n.korea, ipod's effect on social behavior, the weather, food/diets, and parental responsability. I think I'm make a parody of sorts of an old shooter-type game, and replace enemies with food. high-fat/calorie foods will get you points when you shoot them..but shooting good foods would be a ... http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=18 http://car.z3d.com/?p=17 http://car.z3d.com/?p=17#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:00:33 +0000 homework http://car.z3d.com/?p=17 make that president bush..or maybe any number of controversial public figures. the image could jump around when you get close..or maybe wobble..or maybe your pinning isn't quite accurate..not exactly where you click the mouse. i dunno..it could be fun..or maybe stupid. http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=17 http://car.z3d.com/?p=16 http://car.z3d.com/?p=16#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:24:17 +0000 cool stuff http://car.z3d.com/?p=16 so, I had applied for an internship at Pixar and got my application in to them March 11th (a few days before the march 15th deadline). anyway, their material said to expect either a postcard or email acknowledgement within 2 weeks of them recieving the application. 2 weeks came and went without me hearing anything, so I sent an email to HR making sure they had recieved my application..and never got a reply. so at that point i figured they weren't interested so anyway, I just got an email tonight (exactly a month after they recieved my application (i had delivery confirmation) and they want to have "a few of our Supervising Technical Directors" talk to me on the phone this ... http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=16 http://car.z3d.com/?p=15 http://car.z3d.com/?p=15#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:07:14 +0000 homework http://car.z3d.com/?p=15 well, I got the keyboard working properly, and the colors now change to match the right keys. didn't implement any panning or volume control though..time to move onto the next assignment i think. here's the swf and the fla http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=15 http://car.z3d.com/?p=14 http://car.z3d.com/?p=14#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:45:21 +0000 homework http://car.z3d.com/?p=14 so i've run to some trouble with array's this time around. I got the keyboard input working correctly, but for some reason, no matter what array I call (say array[3]), it will only change the properties of array[0]...haven't been able to figure out why yet. I have a swf file and the fla of my code so far.. http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=14 http://car.z3d.com/?p=13 http://car.z3d.com/?p=13#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:16:04 +0000 cool stuff http://car.z3d.com/?p=13 went to the Company Gallery this past weekend for the art show. it was a pretty nice gallery space..lots of windows onto the street. finally saw Doug's Spore 1.1 that I've heard all about, and there were some other pretty cool pieces too. another I really liked was a piece where you controlled a video of various facial expressions with a turntable..you could scratch back and forth..slow it down..speed it up..play it backwards. it was interesting using a record player to interact with video like that. http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=13 http://car.z3d.com/?p=12 http://car.z3d.com/?p=12#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:24:27 +0000 homework http://car.z3d.com/?p=12 I guess I'm finished with it now..not exactly what I thought I would be doing but pretty close. the idea is loosely based of some video I saw a while back. anyway..everything is draggable, and the microphone will pic up sounds if they lie within its 'sensitivity zone', increasing in volume the closer they get. the alpha value of the blue channel on the 'emitters' pulses with respect to the volume, and the panning of each sound can also be adjusted. here's the .swf and the .fla (option-click to download the .fla) http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=12 http://car.z3d.com/?p=11 http://car.z3d.com/?p=11#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:25:33 +0000 homework http://car.z3d.com/?p=11 so I read through both of the tutorials posted.. I guess I understand them, but I wasn't really a fan of how either of them was written. the sound one seemed a little specialized..I dont see a gap of .046 seconds having a huge effect on most kinds of projects. I found the book to be more useful than the tutorials. I think I have an idea for my excercise..just gotta see what it starts looking like.. http://car.z3d.com/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=11