[Course] VIST206, Spring 2012

• Spring 2012, MMF. 9:10 am – 11:25 am, C304

 

Instructor Information

Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo, Assistant Professor, Visualization Dept.

hwaryoung@tamu.edu

office hours: Wednesday 1:00-2:00 (By appointment)

 

TA: Morgan Jenks

email: mjenks@viz.tamu.edu

office hours: Wednesday 1:00-2:00 (By appointment)

 

VIST206 Syllabus

 

Weekly Schedule

Week15 (M, Apr. 30) Final Presentation (Slides + Demo)

• May 1: VIST Show Prep
• May 2: VIST Show (All projects should be installed by 4pm)
• May 4: Final Documentation Due
• Detail

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Week14 (M, Apr. 23) Final Project Criteria

Week14 (W, Apr. 25-7) Hwaryoung is at the conference, in Denver

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Week13 (M, Apr.16)  Working Sessions

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Week12 (M, Apr.9) How to develop final project ideas!

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Week11 (M, Apr.2) Project 3 Presentation at Studio A

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Week10 (M-F, Mar.26-30) Working Session

•  Presentation Criteria

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Week9 (F, Mar.23) Working Session

Week9 (W, Mar.21) Working Session

Week9 (M, Mar.19) Concept Discussion + Electronics testing

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Reading Break

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Week8 (F, Mar. 9) Concept Development

Week8 (W, Mar. 7) Arduino Tutorial

Week8 (M, Mar. 5) Project 3 Details + Arduino Programming

• Examples (Please go over all projects)
• Assignment for Wednesday
• Technical Resources

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Week7 (F, Mar.2) 

Week7 (W, Feb. 29) Soft-circuit exercises

• Alternative Conductive Material – ex. foil, clip, magnet, etc. (We are going to make a circuit using these materials.)
• Soft Material – ex. Felt, fabric, sponge, thread, etc.
• Electrical Tape, Needle, Scissors, plastic tape, glue
• We also need a BATTERY (9V or smaller).
• Assignment: Create a soft-circuit switch

Week7 (M, Feb. 27) Project 2 Presentations

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Week6 (Feb. 20-24) Working Session

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Week5 (Feb. 13-17) Working Session

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Week4 (F, Feb. 10) Concept Development

Week4 (W, Feb. 8 ) Discussion on Readings + Brainstorming for Project 2

• The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes (1967)

Week4 (M, Feb. 6) Stop motion Presentation+ Project 2 Introduction

• Reading1: summarize it in a few paragraph (Blog – due: 8am on Wednesday)
• Reading2: summarize it in a few paragraph (Blog – due: 8am on Wednesday)
• Get familiar with Flash: Flash Tutorials, Video tutorials

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Week3 (F, Feb 3) Working Session

Week3 (W, Feb 1) Working Session

Week3 (M, Jan 30) Working Session

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Week2 (F, Jan 27) Idea development for Project 1

Week2 (W, Jan 25) Countdown animation presentation + Project 1 Detailes announced

• Project 1 Details
• Storyboard template

Week2 (M, Jan. 23) Pixilation presentations + Dragon Frame Demo

• Studio Activity: Countdown video (3-2-1-0)
• Examples 1, 2, 3, 4
• 4-5 seconds countdown video
• 10-12 frames per second
• download a sound file from http://www.freesound.org
• STUDIO B Schedule
• Jan. 23 3pm-6pm (Matt)
• Jan. 24 3pm – 6pm (Autumn)
• Jan. 24 6pm – 9pm (John’s team, Alli’s team)

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Week1 (F, Jan.20) Students’ presentations + Stop motion exercise (Pixilation)

• Studio Activity: Animate People
• Think about imaginative movement, impossible movement (ex. imaginary vehicle)
• Pixilation examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Winter’s research)
• Explore dynamic speeds (Ease in/Ease out)
• 10-12 frames per second
• 20-30 seconds
• Due: 9am, Jan.23 (upload it on your blog)

Week 1 (W, Jan.18) Introduction pdf

• Studio Activity: Look Outwards

• Assignments

1. Create a blog for the course
2. Introduce yourself on your blog with an image
3. Prepare a short presentation (10 slides, 20 seconds each) on yourself and your artworks
4. Email your blog address to Morgan(mjenks@viz.tamu.edu) by 6pm tomorrow
5. Post your slides (pdf) on your blog by 9am, Friday
6. Post the class activity on your blog by 9am, Friday
7. Bring a digital camera to the next studio

Students’ Blogs

Project One: Stopmotion Animation

Project Two: Interactive Flash Animation

Project Three: Physical Visualization

Final Project