Final Visual Thesis
Final Visual Thesis – A Natural User Interface Experience Follow the break to see the video without the narration…
iOS Issues
This is a screencast of me testing Flash CS 5.5’s export function for iOS devices and the iPad (as it would relate to my thesis). Unfortunately this feature will not work for my thesis (to use in addition to the Kinect), but my thesis committee agrees that one particular device isn’t the point of the … Read more
Direction for the Background: ‘Internet Noise’
For the background of my design, I decided to create visual noise based on live twitter interactions. Below is a sample screen recording of the background direction. Each square represents one tweet. The alpha channel (transparency) of each square is in direct relation of the number of ‘retweets’ of each post (i.e. the ‘loudness’ of … Read more
Symbol Set
I’m exploring a couple different directions for my symbol set for my visual component of the thesis. One option would be to use geometric shapes (with some sort of kinetic attribute) or the other I thought about would be to base the symbol set on early alphabets, in this case the Phoenician alphabet. The shapes … Read more
Visual Thesis: Ambient Sound Options
Below are several choices I am exploring for the auditory feedback component of my visual thesis. The symbol library will be based around these looping sounds. You can start and stop tracks individually, to explore which sounds work well together.
Thesis Update – August 14
A screencast showing the recent progress updates for my natural user interface.
Initial Blob Tests with TUI and Socket Server
In this test, I was using the TUI framework to pass coordinates to Flash using a socket server. The setup can handle multiple points (blobs) but I was only working with one at a time for this test. Flash Blob Test with TUI socket server and actionscript from James Pierce on Vimeo.
Initial Kinect Setup
Attached is my initial video posting of my progress documentation. This initial video upload was recorded after I got the kinect working on my Mac Mini server. Thanks to the OpenKinect development community for making the process so easy. Kinect Initial Setup from James Pierce on Vimeo.
MFA Thesis Blog
Hello World! Welcome to my blog for my MFA Graphic Design thesis project for Savannah College of Art and Design. I will be documenting my progress for the visual component of the project. If you are interested, I recommend subscribing to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting. -James