Christmassy Images
14th December, 2007
Some images I made while learning a little bit more about illustrator. A lot of this was created by making custom brush tools.
Update on OA Shape
4th December, 2007
I had some positive feedback from my OA lettering, which is pleasing and here it is featuring a more wavey shaped O and bar across the A.
More Logo Work
30th November, 2007
My placement work seems to have taken a turn for logo and branding design, this time with a watersports brand called Ocean Addict. Here is one of a few initial design ideas I came up with but am most pleased with.
Page Design
22nd August, 2007
A preview of the my first freelance project before starting my placement with Neovirtua.
4th August
4th August, 2007
Following the creation of a sort of aviary enclosure for the dovecote, and the subsequent danger of cats managing to get over the top, plans for a higher and improved part on top were made. Only they couldn’t work out what angle the frame uprights for the top section would lean at. I was posed the trigonometric puzzle and instead of trying to remember GCSE maths I simply went back to my MSN convo which happened to contain two maths students, one attending UCL and the other Bath University.
Needless to say I got a quick and easy answer by simply drawing a triangle and labelling some lengths using the Handwriting Tool usually reserved for drawing moronic pictures. But afterwards a thought occured to me that maybe, like the really boring app I made for AI and matrices and vectors I could make one for working out any angle or length of a triangle if you provide some others.
So there we are, a flash challenge to complete before I start a placement. http://www.clarku.edu/~djoyce/trig/oblique.html
Creative Garden and Generative Art
12th October, 2006
Creative Garden Update
Each of our roles have been decided for The Creative Garden team, and work gets underway to creating our company persona, website and example products. It has been decided for now that I should produce the main HTML portfolio website while Tom and Lloyd handle the visuals and portfolio pieces.
idat 203
I have now considered examining the Generative Webpaintings by Stanza as a basis for my work in idat203. It has also been suggested to me that I should look into the photographer and artist Paul Smith (http://www.paulmsmith.co.uk/)
Other Stuff
Catalina Estrada – Artist from the Computer Arts magazine also featuring an ex-MLA (media lab arts was the course I signed up for but it changed to i-dat on our first year), Pete Harrison.
Back to replicating bees; having placed traces on every value surrounding the creation and death I have discovered the problem was far more elusive than I thought originally. Every-so-often a bee would die twice, or even three times, causing the total count to go down more than it should for a single death. The effect of this can be seen here, but be warned, running this for a while means a lot of extra bees and serious CPU stress. ALSO, it quite often needs to be left a while before things start to happen.
UPDATE: An even better code bug, just wait for the second generation plants to reproduce…
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