Love,
Your Computer-Stupid Dancing Friend Caitlin
Class 1/21/14
Covered in Class Today:
- Using Maya and PD to look at some of the OBJs that we
downloaded
- Today we are working with 320X240 – called QVGA – half the
size of traditional video
-Connecting our objects to music (For Mac users: google
Sound flower and download)
PD Tip:
- Don’t forget to open your VJ live patch and add a reset
button (control 2, type reset, connect to gemwin 50)
Vocabulary/Things to know:
.OBJ – Alias Wavefront Object file – 3D OBJ File – also a
text file (can be opened it with a text reader)
.BVH - Bio-vision
(company) Vectorial Hierarchy file
.FBX – Maya Binary File
RGBA – red green blue alpha
Patch – term comes from the old idea of patching things with
cables
PD *name* = SUB PATCH – aka Abstraction
Radio Buttons – used to select different textures and images
File path – essential - know your file paths to know where
your content lives on your computer
Camera – virtual eyes of the designer and the audience, what
the audience sees should be perfect, or as perfect as we design it to be. Camera
can go anywhere as a virtual camera, because it isn’t a physical thing.
PD - New object
Loadbang – when you load this patch, it opens and as soon as
it opens it hits the loadbang, and loadbang makes everything happen to open
your program. It hits all of the aspects of your patch and creates what you
have created. So that you don’t have to recreate everything every time you open
things. It starts as soon as you double click – like a preset in lighting.
Traditional video in U.S. is called NTSC (National Television Systems
Committee --- (Different in europe – their tv had more scan lines than we did: Europe’s
– PAL). Traditional TV was in a 4:3 aspect ratio; HDTV is 16:9 aspect ratio.
Aspect ratio – what you change on your tv (stretch wide
screen, etc)
Display resolution is the computer equivalent ^^
Reminders:
Required Texts/ Readings – All of the texts for this course
are online, no need to buy, if you want to go out and buy something about
VJ-ing (video jockeying)
Homework:
Back in 1970s Gene Youngblood wrote “Expanded Cinema”, a fantastic text
book. Go to http://www.vasulka.org/Kitchen/PDF_ExpandedCinema/ExpandedCinema.html
(vasulka.org) and explore the text book. Choose a chapter that interests you
and then write 850 words about it. Post on the blog BEFORE MONDAY AT MIDNIGHT.
Your 850 words should allow anyone that reads it to have a firm understanding
of your chapter. Comment on each other’s posts, and when someone comments on
your post, COMMENT BACK! ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS! You should be able to. Make
sure to include definitions of terms within your chapter (but the definitions
do not count as a part of the 850 words).
Explore WebGL and Mr. Doob and blog about it – which ones
you liked the best, what you found interesting, etc.
JOIN VIDEOPONG!! Or you will not be able to do the things in
class for next week.
Post in the blog where you got your .OBJs from to help your classmates out.
Extra credit: Download
Max MSP 6.1 at: cycling74.com/downloads/
& view the Vizzie/Jitter tutorials
Upcoming Tips:
Display Resolutions on Wikipedia LINK – QUIZ MATERIAL!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vector_Video_Standards4.svg
If your midterm is a color coded design you will receive extra
credit.
Next Week:
-Receiving licenses and working with Isadora
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