Week 3 assignments

a) make a composition using the animation techniques that is a tribute to john whitney.


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  • b) Since we talked in class about this idea of a relationship between sound and visual synthesis (and harmony) find a short piece of music (can be any duration as long as there are multiple notes – a short snippet, or a long song) and make a composition that is a visual equivalent of that sound. Think about how the make a visual equivalent using the techniques we talked about this week. Post both the sound and the resulting animation. Try to bring out some essential truth of the audio through the visualization.

    The music I chose is called "E por falar em saudade" from Vinicius de Morais. My intention was to demonstrate the base as frequent and with slow rythm, and also visualize some additional elements on the music that make it more interesting and less repetitive


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  • c) try to use sin and cos to emulate a natural phenomenon (ie, something you see in the natural world). be sure to provide some documentation (video / picture / text) of what this phenomenon is.

    I tried to emulate a tornado (see video), however the result is not good, I will fix it the next days


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  • d) extend the xeno / atan2 code, making a creature which follows the mouse. think of how you could use sinusoidal animation techniques to give the object some “life” – breathing, blinking, etc.

    For this exercise I created a octopus with several legs with independent motion from the body, and the head also inflates simulating breath.


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