schedule
Tuesday Jan. 26th
screening: Anton Cabaliero "Meanwhile" (11:10) from DVD - School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art Selected Works 2008
agenda:
solidifying our understanding of symbols in Flash (buttons and movie clips)
start making sample Flash files for reference
BASIC PLAY BUTTON
BUTTON TO GO TO SPECIFIC FRAME
STOP A MOVIE CLIP THAT IS ON THE STAGE
basic programming concepts:
variables in Actionscript
commenting out code in Actionscript//a comment
trace in Actionscript (a way to have your Flash project write messages in the Output window while testing it.)
assignment =
comparison ==
if/then
define a variable: var playing;
assign it a value: playing = 0;
do something based on what the value of the variable is:
if(playing == 0){
trace("clip is not playing");
}else{
trace("clip IS playing");
}
STOP/RESTART A MOVIE CLIP THAT IS ON THE STAGE
DRAG MOVIE CLIP
new event - mouse over
MOUSEOVER EXAMPLE (w/ accessing symbol properties)
dynamically accessing properties of symbols
- width
- height
- rotation
- alpha
reading: Green & Stiller - p 121-128 (about symbols)
reading: Green & Stiller - p 171-188 (about Actionscript)
Tuesday Feb 2
concept: depth of field
technique: motion tween w/ tweening scale and blur
Flash - depth of field w/ floating spheres Link
animated short - RABBIT by Run Wrake
Depth of Field:
- suggests 3d space
- references lens optics (cinema and photography)
- used to draw viewer's attention w/in the frame
in film/video as a technique to change viewer's focus of attention w/in the frame link
Wikipedia entry depth of field
Thursday Feb 5
TIME
- John Maeda - calendars
- The calendars were made for purely aesthetic reasons and represent no intent to advance the state of the art in digital time management. They were in fact, designed for you to waste time instead of save time.
- Cosmos/orbit calendar
- Line
- flora calendar
- Hanabi
- umi/aki
- Snowflake
- wristwatch ad
- 1 Minute Countdown
- one minute Flash game - rabbit surgery
- ENDURANCE:
- How many pushups can you do in a minute?
- My One-Minute Breath Hold
- SELF-IMPROVEMENT
- 1 Minute to Irresistible Attraction Fast Affirmations Video
- What can you do in one minute? extremely much hasanaat!
- CONFLATION
- Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2, in One Minute, in One Take (and titles)
- RECORD-SETTING
- World Record for Most Times Saying Galaptasaurus in One Minute
- Most kicks to the head in one minute (self)
- Most domestic appliances thrown in one minute
- WORK BY TEHCHING (SAM) HSIEH
- Tehching Hsieh on Wikipedia
- WORK BY CHRIS BARR
Thursday Feb. 11th
TIMER
KEEP SCORE
KEEP SCORE 2
Tuesday Feb. 23rd
FLASH SITES TO DISCUSS:
http://www.bee.org.il
http://www.specialsurprise.co.nz/
http://www.ahntrio.com/v2/
http://www.angry-gram.com/index.php
http://www.petepenicka.ch/
sequencers online/instruments
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/fl-909
http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.de.html
http://nicksworldofsynthesizers.com/flashbeast.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_808
Thursday Feb. 25th
video
example file (zip archive - will need to be extracted)
examples
masks: example file
read chapter 10 (on video)
Tuesday Mar. 2
video...
archive.org
youtube
vimeo
functional
spatialized
artistic
expanded
reimagined
ideas:
multitouch
Google image swirl
Google labs fastflip
Nam June Paik 1932 - 2006
nam june paik video documentary (first part only)
Tuesday Mar. 3rd
A PERIODIC TABLE OF VISUALIZATION METHODS
Edward Tufte
DEMO FLES
flash_graph_test.fla
flash_graph_test_v2.fla
Thursday April 1
PRELOADER EXAMPLE