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My second year work
Serverside Programming and Development
Assignment 1 (Specification 3) - This is a Java Applet so I advise you to use a different browser to Internet Explorer unless you know which settings to change in order to view applets. More information on applets and various browsers can be read here.
Creative Industries
Module Aim:
“This module explores the dynamic changes that are sweeping through traditional media and communications industries, brought about by the impact of new technologies such as (digital interactive) terrestrial, cable, and satellite TV, the internet, tele-communications and computer networks. It explores, through group production projects, the practical issues underpinning the management of distributed organisations.[It [...]
Workshop 2
Module Aim:
“This module provides students with opportunities to further develop their multimedia design and production skills, placing an equal importance on a critical understanding of the relationship of their work to other forms of cultural production, and experimental and creative production work. Emphasis is placed on developing creative skills and strategies to deliver professional [...]
Critical Contexts - Digital Art (idat203)
Module Aim:
“This module provides students with opportunity to further develop their multimedia design and production skills, but places an emphasis on a critical understanding of the relationship of their work to other forms of cultural production in both historical and contemporary context. In response to a set brief students are [...]
idat201 (Trans-spatial Design)
Module Aim:
“This module provides students with an introduction to three-dimensional software applications and the design process as a whole from conception through development, to realisation. Supported by critical examination of cultural artefacts, the module demands students synthesise the design of a digital three-dimensional object with an understanding of its historical background.
[It aims] To [...]
Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Media
My second year AI coursework, created in Flash. “This module provides a general introduction to Artificial Intelligence concepts and its classical techniques and applications. It also explores recent research directions of Artificial Intelligence, such as neural networks and Artificial Life, and their implications fo Multimedia products.”
Flash Arrays for Matrices and Vectors
A [...]
May 5th, 2007
Ok, so its my brother’s 18th birthday which means that instead of revising for the AI exam I have plenty of distractions.
Some good news in the form of our idat205 Eden Game has been uploaded to the Eden Project’s website, and has been featured in a BBC news press release!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6629765.stm
Meanwhile I am working to produce a new website design, which I am happy fulfils every intricate criteria I am striving for, and replace the current site which was a result of mashed together previous attempts with the aim of trying to keep everything active. So essentially EVERYTHING needs to be replaced and unified. This is of course while I am heating up the search for a placement.
Seems relevant to the impacts of digital media as studied in idat203 -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6627135.stm
Based on a couple of puzzles I received a long time ago, this flash generates a random puzzle and then jumbles the pieces up for the player to solve.
The flash actionscript behind this is flexible enough to allow for any size
puzzle to be created and jumbled as many times as I like. In addition to this,
the difficulty of rotating pieces is also a feature.
