Programming Fundamentals » Gerda Antanaityte

computer vision. Soak, Dye in light

antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:28:00 +0000

“Soak, Dye in light.” by everyware (2011) is an empty canvas but when you touch it, its elastic surface stretches and gets suffused with projected vivid colors mimicking fabric absorbing dye. Poking and rubbing with hands or resting their body on this spandex canvas allows visitors to soak this canvas in virtual dye and create own patterns.

SOAK from everyware.kr on Vimeo.

antiMap exercise. Home

antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:10:46 +0000

What is your home’s relation with you? Is it missing you when you away, anticipate when you are coming back or turning to it’s direction? Making this exercise I’ve tried to visualize it.

home from Gerda Antanaityte on Vimeo.

computer vision. ping

antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:49:52 +0000

PING is a low-tech augmented reality videogame that overlays a moving pixel to a videosignal. The pixel bounces off from objects that are darker than a specific threshold value. More about this projects at http://www.niklasroy.com/project/101/PING

computer vision. the cage

antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:04:51 +0000

“La Gabbia” (The Cage) by auroraMeccanica (2011) is an installation that uses projection to invite the public to interact with physical bird cage to trigger the release of projected birds. At the center of a darkened room, a birdcage hanging from the ceiling it’s lit only by the white beam of the projector and its on the wall. Uncover the bird’s presence through playing a game, a very simple game in which we just have to push the cage and shake it.

I found this beautiful project here

La Gabbia – auroraMeccanica – videoinstallazione interattiva from auroraMeccanica on Vimeo.

visualizing data. Playing with interface

antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:37:25 +0000

visualizing data. process

antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:48:28 +0000

How does your movement look like?
The challenge was to find creative way to translate GPS data into visual form.

The idea is quite simple. What is home? Probably it’s your center of the world. Every journey starts and ends here. I picked my home as initial point and marked it as origin of the drawing. Movement is illustrated by stretching coordinate lines. In that case you can always see how far you are from initial point.

Nautical and celestial cartography, where relations between objects are clearly linked in simple and aesthetic manner were inspiring graphic forms:

first concept sketches

and here’s how my interface sketch looks like.

My first recording started from home to school. I used antiMap application, which gathered data about speed, distance, time, compass position, longitude and latitude. It was interesting experience to see this trip visualized. Somehow it looked like personal documentary cartoon. Here’s how my trip looked like:

Size of ellipse represents speed, color changes are compass position. Even there’s no information about streets, from speed and ellipse position you can clearly define where are crossroads with traffic lights. I never thought how my trip would look like. It shows how maps can be informative as well creative by invoking different tools.

In example you can see only one way trip, but tomorrow I will go to the beach and probably come back home :) It will help to complete my map.

bauhaus clock

antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:03:03 +0000

The third task was to a create a clock which could count time in it’s creative way. Due to my personal admire to Bauhaus, I’ve decided to dedicate exercise to this great influential approach. The main idea was that clock has three parameters to count time (hours / minutes / seconds), which actually complement Bauhaus ideas (3 main colors / shapes etc.) It seemed interesting try to link it. I’ve started with grid, which was 60×60 for seconds, then 120×60 for minutes and 24 horizontal lines for hours. I’ve put all of them in the same canvas and added 3 lines representing different time ratio. Finally I’ve ended with linear and gradient versions of it. The linear purely shows how time ratios interact with each other, while the second one plays with colors, mixing ‘em and creating shades out of core colors.

So how does it work? The red part counts seconds: every loop (60 seconds) it pushes yellow minute line forward. When minute’s part reaches the end, it lifts blue hour up. You have to get used to understand what the time is, but finally there’s a picture of changing composition, which is based on classical RYB colors and flavor of 1930-ies.

here’s linear ..

..and gradient clock:

flags

antanaityte.gerda@iaac.net — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:11:22 +0000

The first exercise of programming fundamentals (together with Cristobal Castilla) was to code flags, which introduced us what processing and programming is and how to get images out of range of numbers and letters. There were 16 flags to make. For example, that’s how Catalan flag looks like in code:

void setup() {
size (190, 120);
}
void draw(){
noStroke();
fill(255,223,58);
rect(0, 0, 190, 120);
fill(255,12,13);
rect(0,13,190,14);
fill(255,12,13);
rect(0,40,190,14);
fill(255,12,13);
rect(0,67,190,14);
fill(255,12,13);
rect(0,94,190,14);
}

And these are all flags made by Processing: