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Final Proposal

Working off of my project for my critique class, I will produce a p5 sketch that includes image, video, and sound. The content is about semio-capitalism causing violent acts and how manifestos are distributed online. It touches on themes of over-stimulation, alienation, the breakdown between the virtual and the real, and our nostalgic culture which Mark Fisher calls “the slow cancellation of the future.” I want to make a sketch that resembles the YouTube website page with a section cut out where a video would usually play. Inside this space I will insert the videos. They will be a montage of commercials, ads, YouTube clips, and appropriated footage related to the topic. The videos will switch when clicked on and also two sound tracks will play by pressing two different buttons on the screen. The cursor will have a faded tail effect making allusion to a “haunting” feeling, a spectre of the past. I was thinking about COMPUSA Live!’s New Museum Performance (screenshot below) where multiple green screens were used to supplant the performers onto what looks like a desktop computer. I will make use of these P5 examples to make this work (screenshots below.)

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Lab 8: I got the fade function to work so I know my breadboard/arduino set up was correct but could not figure out the lab, even after the class where we went over it.

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Here’s the serial read printing up to 1023.

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My original idea was to play multiple tv advertisements in 3D cubes with the potentiometer being used to control how fast the cube spins. It’s an adjacent piece to a series of work I’ve been doing about the overproduction of stimulation in our digital Information Age. Controlling the chaotic nature of information seemed fitting.

I took an existing p5 example and edited the cube to 400x 400 pixels to take up the whole screen and erased the code for the image. Then I added my video file in mp4 format to the sketch. From here out, I followed the instructions of connecting the serial port and adding the code to make the latestData function as my data instead of mouse X.

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p5 - lab #5

https://editor.p5js.org/ryanmaleady/sketches/aBmi-Fyje After watching the Shiffman tutorials on how to use the map function and mouseX I started making a sketch where I mapped the coordinates on the screen to the RGB colors so that when the X coordinate is all the way to the left it is fully Green and then slowly  changes until its fully Red all the way to the left. From here I thought it'd be interesting to add a Mouse Y function so that as you went up and down you would get a change in color as well. I made the color of the ellipse to orange and took away the stroke.

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p5 sketch

https://editor.p5js.org/ryanmaleady/sketches/Cju4aHUDo My sketch here is a version of the “Create Graphic” example but I modified the code, changing the shape from a circle to an arc and changing the color from black to a lime green by using the RGB codes. It wasn't an easy copy and paste because the circle and arc have a different number of coordinates. Then I added some triangles.

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Hyperspectral image sensors

Humans see visible light, goldfish see infrared light, and bumble bees see ultraviolet light. With Hyperspectral Imaging Sensors we have the ability to see all 3 at once. Using a remote sensor in the sky, light rays bounce off whatever object we want to measure and back to the sensor in orbit. The reflected energy is what the sensors detect. The energy is categorized in ranges of wavelengths as “spectral bands”. Hyperspectral images can have hundreds of finer bands and these images are combined to form a three-dimensional data cube for analysis; two spatial dimensions of the scene, and the other is the range of wavelengths.  This type of sensor has multiple uses including monitoring of the health of crops, in eye care determining potential diseases, and most interesting to me, surveillance. The soldiers who killed Osama Bin Laden used this technology while conducting their raid on his compound in Pakistan. Hyperspectral imaging can also be used in facial recognition.

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Lab #1

As an art student not particularly interested in computing/coding and who has never taken a physics class in his life, this project was exciting but confusing. The switch I built was made out of a piece of wood, 2 nickel tacks, and a safety pin. The tack pierces through one end of the pin and then is free to move in the direction of the other tack. When it touches the other tack it completes the circuit. While in Home Depot looking for tacks and I had to check which metals were better conductors. If I got the brass tacks the switch might have not worked at all.