I’m currently in the process of researching ideas for my 3rd project. This is not easy. Deciding what area one wants to focus on is already a challenge. Does one create a website that involves data visualization or an iphone app that implements the accelerometer? or both?
Right now I’m excited about an idea I had yesterday. It is yet to be unveiled, but it revolves around hip hop culture, so therefore I’ve been doing some research.
So you got your document. Everything is laid out as it should be, but for some reason the \cite commands aren’t working and the bibliography aren’t showing up.
The answer to your problems is here. In steps:
1. In the upper left-hand corner of your document choose Latex (see photo) and then run it (Command T).
2. Now choose Bibtex and then run it (Command T).
3. Now choose Latex again and run it.
4. Run it again in Latex.
And that should make it work! If for some reason or another, it’s still not working, try the link where I got this info from.
Last months article in Wired about London’s Silicon Roundabout not only shed light on the fact that the tech innovation hub of London is based around Shoreditch and Old Street, it also gave us a nice list of places to hand in our CV.
I’m thinking about creating a Jersey Shore sound board. If anything it will be an excuse to figure out how to play sound in Javascript which I will then implement in Javascript GUI’s. I did find this sample code called SoundManager2 that so far has seemed pretty easy to use.
There seems to be only two sound boards that exist. I’m not sure if it’s worth my time, but it shouldn’t take that long to create anyway.
These days I’m very intrigued with what openFrameworks and openCV can allow you to make. And anything that says Detroit also grabs my attention. Next time I’m home, I’m definitely checking out the MOCAD.
Face Builder 2.0 from Brett Renfer on Vimeo.
I See Beats from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
I’m currently working on my 2nd Year project for my degree in Creative Computing at Goldsmiths. I thought it would be cool to make a device that would have a users movements trigger sounds. I would call it The Dance Machine. Turns out, making rhythmic music in such a way, while not impossible, may not be the short-term result of my work. Here is an excerpt from my project website, which has now become a very arty and intellectual thing called The Thin Line:
The Thin Line is an art installation piece that engages users to explore the thin line between our own beings and that of the digital world which surrounds us.
Technology is becoming more and more efficient in its ability to read our input. One area in particular that is making strong advances is that of Computer Vision with algorithms that can do everything from recognizing when a face is present to how much a person is smiling. Large companies and conglomerates are pushing this technology into the realms of the virtual world. We need to take note that this evolution is not something happening at a snails pace or in some far off distant future. It is happening now.
What are the implications of this? How does this affect our relationship with machines? Will our autonomy be affected? And if so, how?
The Thin Line primarily asks the user to have fun with the new interactions that this new technology will bring. But it also wonders if the user is conscience of the profound implications of this new machinery.
The clips below are a prototype and a “promo video”. If you are a dancer, you may want to get in touch with me (ericbrotto@gmail.com) about doing some collaborative work. Keep in mind the prototype is exactly that: a prototype. The finished product will be more refined and much can be changed, like the music, etc.
Here is the group photo from the workshop I did back in November. It was very inspiring to be surrounded by so many creative people.
Check out some more photos here at the Goldsmiths University Website.
I went to see Nikolay today. He told me to make some corrections which I did. Unfortunately I used Photoshop (argoUML was getting frustrating) which means the final product is now in .gif format and also on its side. You will need to rotate it 90 degrees to view it properly.
Sorry for posting this so late.
We are meeting tomorrow at 1pm in the Library. At that point we can get you all copies of the Class Diagram and talk about what we are going to talk about. So far Issac, Curtis and Nicola have confirmed. We still need to hear from Tass.
See you all tomorrow!
I expect a comment on this blog from each one of you. If you have nothing to say, at least leave a message telling me the name of your favorite cartoon. Otherwise my feelings will be hurt.
Here is the pdf and the argo file for our UML Class diagram updated. To start off, let’s look at what Nickolay suggested at our meeting with him:
1. No underlining (which normally indicates if a method is static or not).
2. No + or - signs (which indicates public or private)
3. Arrows between all classes indicating things such as : qualified association, aggregation, hierarchy.
I was going through the requirements of the class diagram and I saw that for attributes and operations we need to indicate visibility. After flipping through the UML Distilled book I learned that in UML 2.0 a + sign is the way to indicate a public attribute or class. In other words, Nikolay was wrong. I’ve commented the proof on our class diagram to support our work (which in this case is found at the top of p.37 of the UML DIstilled book).
For the requirements of attributes and operations, I believe everything is there although you may want to check my diagram against what is on the list of items in the task section of the hand out.
For generalizations, there seems to be a lot ‘aggregations’ and for associations there is only one, between Track and Semaphore. Does this seem right?
I met with Marian on Friday and although he only had a quick look at our Class Diagram, he seemed to think it was okay. I will meet with Nikolay on Wednesday at 11am if anyone wants to join.
PS …Don’t forget to comment!
Oh, and when will our next meeting be? Wednesday evening? Thursday before class? Maybe add your opinion to your comments.
For all students in this course:
Maybe you´ve done this already, but I´m going to share this with you regardless. Before starting your sketches in ArgoUML you probably want to go to preferences and choose the options such as visibility, parameters, type, etc which are all things required for the project, but aren´t default settings. I don´t think the changed settings will apply to a sketch that has already been started.
Also, I find printing to pdf a bit buggy. Like for example, when I convert my sketch the final pdf shows items that are not on my original screen. If anyone knows of a smooth way to create a final product that would be awesome:
For those in my group (Issac, Curtis, Belo, Tahseen, and Nicola):
I´ve done an initial layout for the Class Diagram. Check out the pdf file for it here and the zip file for it here. Please take them and play with them if you want. I generally feel pretty good about it, but have some questions:
1. Are my Generalizations and Associations correct?
2. I find the methods for Global Network a bit repetitive. Anyone agree with me?
3. Can we add our own methods and attributes even if they´re not on the paper given to us by the professor? For example, I added provideTripDuration to the TimeTable Class.
4. You´ll see a Wagon Class hanging out there in the middle of nowhere. I can´t see it in my sketch so I don´t know how to get rid of it. Any ideas?
5. All the methods are marked sequential by default. Don´t know why that is, because I believe that is for State Diagrams. Weird.
6. I´m not sure how to change the multiplicity numbers between classes.
Well, I´m going to contact Marian and see if he can give me any more advice on the topic. If anyone feels like talking to the prof to see if we can get any more feedback, that would be great.
Please do comment, if anything to say that you received the email. If we can get some of this done online it will make Thursday go a lot easier, we´ll probably get a better mark, and best of all it will save us time and work 