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by amandajackson
Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:59 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here
Replies: 21
Views: 37784

Virtual Environment, Real Faces

A lot of different fields of research have gone into my final project to make my exhibition possible: The Research: We have been using virtual reality in video games for many years. We navigate through virtual maps in video games that are at first unfamiliar, but as we continue to play we learn the ...
by amandajackson
Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:18 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk9 - Translate from the Science Lab to Art
Replies: 21
Views: 38417

The Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior

I have been looking in to a research project on virtual environments and behavior in the psychology department at UCSB. The ReCVEB is dedicated to understanding the complex interplay of computer-generated virtual environments and human behavior. The virtual environment allows one to place a mobile i...
by amandajackson
Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:42 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk8 - Vision Lab on Campus
Replies: 22
Views: 50658

Re: Wk8 - Vision Lab on Campus

http://www.iwrms.uni-jena.de/~c5hema/pub/epa02_heroldetal.pdf Research in the Geography department includes the monitoring and mapping of remotely sensed data. By using infrared cameras, researchers are able to differentiate between buildings, vegetation, and water in both suburban and urban areas....
by amandajackson
Sun Nov 11, 2012 5:55 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk7 - Computational Camera
Replies: 25
Views: 104687

Personalized Photograph Ranking and Selection System

Personalized Photograph Ranking and Selection System Che-Hua Yeh, Yuan-Chen Ho, Brian A. Barsky, Ming Ouhyoung University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Division and School of Optometry With the recent and exponentially growing use of digital cameras for personal photography, users spend a...
by amandajackson
Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:41 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper
Replies: 21
Views: 41465

Re: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper

the first demonstration I saw at the Elings Open House was by Charlie Roberts. Through his Gibber application http://charlie-roberts.com/gibber/ , Roberts was able to create high-level audio synthesis by inputting various codes. The Gibber performances are in pure java script. http://i69.photobucket...
by amandajackson
Sat Oct 20, 2012 11:01 am
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image
Replies: 24
Views: 36697

Re: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image

ikea_bone_appetit.jpg Like any advertisement, this Ikea ad narrows the attention of the viewer by eliciting a linguistic message. The largest print reads: "Bone appétit", used to wish some one enjoyment of the meal that they are about to indulge. This phrase denotes a sophisticated, perhaps intimat...
by amandajackson
Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:25 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk03 - Chronophotography
Replies: 25
Views: 39026

Re: Wk03 - Chronophotography

"Rather than impede or freeze motion, Marey wanted to capture data at discrete regular intervals which could then serve to reconstruct (one wants to say deconstruct) the original action." (p. 85) Marey was more interested in the discrete pieces that made up an object rather than the complete whole....
by amandajackson
Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:00 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema
Replies: 28
Views: 51182

Re: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema

The film Blow Up follows the life of fashion photographer David Bailey, played by actor David Hemmings. The 1960s film begins by establishing that Bailey works on his own time table- you cannot predict or rush the art that is created by the lens of a camera. Bailey is late for a photo shoot at the b...
by amandajackson
Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:37 am
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk01 - Camera Obscura
Replies: 30
Views: 300262

Re: Wk01 - Camera Obscura

The Camera Obscura: Past and Present A Chinese philosopher was the first to found the concept of the Camera Obscura: in the fifth century he discovered that light passing through a pinhole creates an inverted image on the opposite wall of a dark room. Aristotle made similar observations a century la...