Media Arts and Technology

Cultivation of Energy Screen Shot 2018-03-15 at 2.49.20 PM.png In this project, I used data from EXIOBase dataset which provided me the supply data and consumption of 6 main kinds of crops from 42 countries. In fact, there are data’s from categories like “rest of Asia”, which I decided not to use a...

Particles Mirror Junxiang Yao Particle system is a useful technique that uses a large amount of small objects in simulating water, fog, falling leaves and rocks. Therefore, particles can bring flexibility when creating shapes using them. In the final project, I planed to use both kinect and particl...

Interactive Particle System Junxiang Yao In my final project, I want to use particle system to create visual effect. The movement of the particles will be influenced by the motion of the user. When kinect is not capturing any user, the particles will move in their own patterns. And after kinect cap...

Artist DANIEL ROZIN http://www.smoothware.com/danny/ Daniel Rozin has a series of mirror related art works which built a connection between concrete figures and abstract arts. What he did was using real objects as pixels to display the image captured by camera in real time, like an artistic mirror....

Description In this project, I tracked my right hand detected by kinect to create an abstract structure. In the tracking process, the trajectory of the movement of my right hand will be saved in an array list. Besides, I want the thickness of the trajectory to be decided by the speed of my movement...

Description In this project, I tracked the closest point (usually my hand) detected by kinect to pick the letters which were distributed randomly on the canvas up. In the picking up process, I used the dist() to calculate the distance between the current position of the letter and my hand, if the d...

Art&Design Distribution concept description In this project, I want to find the relationship between art&design, economy and technology. During my undergraduate study, since my major was industrial design, I knew there was a website called Behance.net, which is like a instagram for designers to pos...

Checkout Times and Duration Times about the Former 6 Movies in the Star Wars Series in Seattle Public Library JunxiangYao In this project, I tried to dig deeper. I decided to find the data of a movie series or a novels series in SPL as the database. Since Star Wars 7 had just been released last Chr...

How Reading Preferences of Books about Sports in the Library Varies with Time Concept In this project, I was using revised version of the dataset created in last project. I want to find if there is any particular pattern that can show that field of data was impact by some kinds of factors, like wor...

Project 1: CULTURE ANALYTICS & DATA MINING Concept In this assignment, I tried to figure out whether the sports events will impact the book checkout in the Seattle Public Library. I chose Olympics, the largest sport events all over the world, as the first clew to digging the data. I wanted to find ...