Projection Design

“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Vocab for Next Week's Quiz

Hey guys,

I'm looking over my notes for Tuesday's quiz, putting together a list of the vocab we've gotten so far. If it helps any of you, here's what I've compiled from my handwritten notes. Also check the previous blogs -- I can't guarantee this is everything. :)

RGBA –  red, green, blue, alpha
Alpha – allows us to layer for transparency
Patch – named after of the old telephone patches that operators used to use to connect calls
Subpatch – an abstraction of the patch, encapsulated in the patch written as “pd” + space + subpatch
File path – the location of a file in your computer’s hard drive, from biggest to smallest file
Display resolution – the number of pixels that can be displayed in each direction of a monitor’s dimensions (The REVE’s screen is 1280x1024, times 5 in width. This is the equivalent of five SXGA, or Super Extended Graphics Array, screens)
Aspect ratio – the proportional ratio between a monitor’s width and height, for example a HDTV is 16:9
RGB Values – usually 0-255, therefore 256 values
MIDI Values – 0-127, therefore 128 values
.BVH – BioVision Vectorial Heirarchy file
.FBX – Maya Binary file
.OBJ – Alias Wavefront Object file (3D object, actually a text file that can be viewed/edited in Wordpad, Notepad, etc.)

.PNG – Portable Network Graphic file (essentially a JPEG plus Alpha for transparency)

2 comments:

andreacward said...

Thank you so much Laura!

Unknown said...

You are absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much! :)