Inspired by Oskar Fischinger’s Optical Poem (video below), I created an array of rippling circles that would symbolize sounds. I used A 3D bouncing ball that changes direction to control the playback speed of the sounds. Both of these classes have bounce off of each other when they collide. I started off messing around with […]
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I’ve been messing with PHP Data Mapper, trying to set up a database for my little website. I created two tables in the database: Songs and Licenses. Each License is related to one Song (one to one). Songs can be related to many Licenses, or no licenses (One to Many). I haven’t quite made it […]
I used to commute to Exchange Place in Jersey City via the PATH Train from World Trade Center. On my commute, I noticed a lot of things, but I was also oblivious to a lot of things. For example, there’s a ferry just a few blocks from the station, but it five years and a […]
Setting my name in Sans Serif Futura Bold reminds me of the JavaScript logo, which happens to share my initials. Verdana Bold Italic: I like the unique shape of the J, the symmetry between the I and L which both have ascenders above the cap-height, the high x-height, and the lowercase g descender […]
The following is an outline of notes/observations from this weeks’ readings for Technological Trends in Music Education.
Revised from last week’s “calculator” but still a work in progress…Created Song and Licenses classes, but gotta get that database up and running to save songs and licenses and connect them to each other. http://www.itp.jasonsigal.cc/clweb/week3/song_index.php
Yiyang took some videos of our experiments with tone generation during this week’s labs: Those used photoresistors with a resistance threshold that would trigger tones. The tones for all three vary by a ratio when turning one of the pots. The other pot controls amplitude between the digital output and the speaker. Later on I […]
The TAP ‘n Go is an interactive entry/exit system for the Bobst Library. I became aware of this system the first time I approached the glass doors guarding the library entrance. The sign that said “New Readers” was not relevant to me because I had never been here before to see the old […]
I wanted to make circles that expand repeatedly from the center of a mouse click, so I made a ‘Ripple’ class that has the variables x,y, initial size, speed of expansion, and color. It had a function to reset itself at its initial size, to create an endless loop. The problem was that for every […]
This week, we read The Secret Language of Signs: the most useful thing thing you pay no attention to. I have been paying a lot of attention to signs everywhere I go. I think that most signs around NYC are a-ok—they’re not great, but they’re not horrible, and they serve a purpose, they get the job […]