Projection Design Notes. January 14, 2014
Digital Video operates at
30 fps
CGI: Computer Generated
Imagery
Pure data- How
computers work
Generate chain. 3D object, etc.
Our version: PD-Extended 0.42.5
When you download and launch, it will look like this:
(If you have a problem saying
you cannot run without a program X-11, download it, and run.)
Benchmark time!
Help>Browser>Gem>Examples>
Basic > Red Square
This is called a patch
because back in the day, there were cables that would literally be patched by
an operator to another location. This is the digital version.
The most important thing:
OBJECT Command +1 /Command +E for Mac to go in and out of edit
CTRL +1 Windows/ CTRL + E for
Windows
MESSAGE: CTRL/Command 2.
To connect, hover over bottom
of Message to top of
CTRL D – Duplicates.
NUMBER: CTRL +3
How to adjust the number:
Hold down the shift key.
How to add notes into your
patch:
PD Name, means subpatch.
Encapsullaltion C++
If you click it, another
window opens.
After you do this, click
create: It will create a box. ^
To change the color, click
where it reads the color, change red to green by altering the number from
1 0 0 to 0 1 0.
o
Midi operates
between 0 and 127, and therefore has 128 values.
Change the shape. Go back to
the original “Red Square” patch page. Change the shape from “square” to “cube 3”.
If you have encountered a black box, make sure everything is lowecase.
GUI: Graphic User Interface.
Historical
Elements of Projection Design.
Phantasmagoria: A form
of theatre that used “magic lanterns” to
project images like ghosts, demons, skeletons and the like on walls, smoke or
semi-transparent screens, using rear projection.
WEST COAST: Grateful Dead.
Glenn MCKay’s Headlights: a
lightshow that attempted to re-create the kalidascopic visuals under the affect
of LSD (Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWxaW7WxUL4
Liquid Light Show:
East and West Coast
Fractal: A “neverending” repetitious design.
EAST COAST: Velvet
Underground.
Andy Warhol would create
films with flashing lights and color, relating in live performances of group.
Color Theory:
Newton developed the circular diagram of colors in 1666.
HOMEWORK:
VJ LIVE:
Get 20 .jpg that are 512 x 512 that are textures. Resize in photoshop or
Gimp. Rename them in a specific naming sequence
Get Maya with 10 models; .obj’s
Play with polygonal
primitives with Maya 1.3 tutorial.
(Optional) Get 123D Catch for
your iPhone. Save your objects to play.
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