142 Project 2 Final Hand In

This is my Final Design. It wasnt as successful as i might have hoped but i have managed acheived alomost what i wanted in my concepts. There were a couple a things that kept happening every time I ran the process, most of them I figured out, but some im still not sure of,. I think this acurately portrays my basic intention without a few of the minor elements. I am still however please with my result. all sounds were recorded myself and inspiration for visuals were from taken from all over.

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=27149

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New Conceptual Sketches

These concepts are just sort of going over ideas, seeing where I could take them, some of the inspiration for these peices came from Bens work.

This (below) was just a very rough sketch but i kind of like what I came up with, it successfully brings in colour transformation and interaction, yet iI do still think it can be improved, I know I will have to try working out the processing before i can completely decide.

New Inspiration

After leaving behind my guitar idea, I was lost at what to look at for my inspiration, I took another look at shapes and colours and spent a while going over some of the transformations on open processing. I looked an example that was a pure rotating rectangle. It was a very basic design, with a basic transformation of rotation. This meant I had alot to work with and alot i could manipulate. It had code that would interesting to work other codes into and mess around with colour.

142 Project 2... Initial Inspiration

My Initial inspiration for this project was the guitar. I thought about using the first few frets along the neck and the notes that they produce to create a possible guitar simulator. Using my knowledge of guitars I would be able to create something that i personally would greatly enjoy mucking around with. However after breif research of how i would create transformation in the vibration of the strings i discovered this would be alot harder than i first thought. I thought of using similar coding to Bens' 'Gong' open processing program. Also with the large amount of sound files i would need, alot of coding would be needed.



At this point i wasn't exactly sure what they were looking for in our work. And after my interem presentation and our lecture, I discovered that trying to recreate an instrument would not be suitable. The interaction of sound and transformation would be too controled and the transformation would be insufficient. I then decided to rethink my idea.