Dance
Four drums you play with your arms. Camera at the center of the board. No speakers. GitHub What I tried first, and why I stopped I wanted to read a dancer’s internal tempo and generate music to match it. I…
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Handala, or Handelbrot
Link: This project began as an attempt to visualize musical dissonance using moiré patterns. The early goal was to map consonant vs. dissonant tone pairs onto spatial interference patterns by treating sine waves as spatial frequencies. The initial prototype…
Ear Training Sketch
The ear training sketch made me feel bad: So I decided to blame it on the use of just intonation instead of equal temperament, which I fixed: I tried again with equal temperament, and was vindicated: Or I just got…
Pixels: Compression Bands
By William Yao (wy538@nyu.edu) and Noah Black (nsb8333@nyu.edu) For the Pixels assignment, Will and I came up with Compression Bands. Vertical bands from the webcam feed are alternately stretched and compressed. The bands gradually switch places, i.e. they transition smoothly…
Week 8 Lab: Lab: Two-Way (Duplex) Serial Communication Using An Arduino and the p5.webserial Library
This is was a straightforward lab. After I got that running, I made a little musical instrument. The button triggers a note, and the potentiometer controls the pitch. Here’s the code I wrote for it (I also imported the Tone.js…
Week 7 Labs: Asynchronous Serial Communications and P5.js
With my coding background, this week’s labs were all very simple for me. Everything worked and it was easy to see how and why it was working. I didn’t have any trouble. Because my old Arduino is still installed in…
Hypercinema video art projects: Real Gone and Fake Gone
These were my submissions for the Video Art and Synthetic Layers of Pixels assignments. This was the treatment I wrote for the Video Art assignment: Idea: A collage film set to Nora Brown’s song, “The Very Day I’m Gone”. For…
P-Comp Midterm: Be Afraid
By Lucas Wu (sw6889@nyu.edu) and Noah Black (nsb8333@nyu.edu). Be Afraid is a Halloween-themed interactive experience that combines computer vision and physical actuators to reward users for successfully emoting,as judged by artificial intelligence, in a frightened or surprised way. Ideation Lucas…
Week 5 Labs: Using a Transistor to Control High Current Loads with an Arduino, and DC Motor Control Using an H-Bridge
These were fun labs. Here’s how I used the Arduino and a transistor to control an externally powered DC motor (not using the potentiometer yet): Getting the light to dim with the potentiometer was easy enough, although I was surprised…
Woof
I made Woof in After Effects. Woof features my dog Lucy walking over a thing and jumping onto a sort of elevator platform. The platform takes her to a leaf that she jumps onto. She celebrates by woofing. The seed…