Here’s our mockup for how our scent clock will work:
Scents of Time
January 27th, 2010Theory of Relativity
January 27th, 2010According to the Theory of Relativity, time is not universal and does not flow at a fixed rate. No matter how many computers have their time set automatically by Apple, it’s always different for each one.
Time and speed are coupled– when a person goes fast, time goes slow and vice versa. In Radiolab, they demonstrated this by going to Central Park together, syncing their watches, and having one person strap on a turbo-charged jet-pack and blasting off into space, while the other person stayed stationary. After the rocketman returned, they compared watches and they were not in sync as we would normally expect. The rocketman’s watch was seven minutes slower than the stationary man.
I found a website (probably meant for kids, but everyone’s a kid in their own way) that does a nice job demonstrating time and speed’s affect on what we perceive.
Flipbook Brainstorming
January 25th, 2010For our first Methods of Motion assignment, I’d like to make a flipbook. I was thinking of animating an apple falling from a tree.
- Apple is hanging happily on the tree branch
- Ant walks over and bites the stem of the apple until he falls
- Or I can show the apple growing and when he gets too fat he’ll fall
- Apple shows signs of distress as he plummets to his death
- Spider sees distress and spins cobwebs to save him
- Spider web snaps, apple falls again
- Bird tries to grab it but fails
- Caterpillars form a line to reach out for him but he’s too heavy
- Apple falls on a sheep and thinks he’s safe
- Hippo comes around and eats him
- The end
Comm Lab Final
December 12th, 2009For my Comm Lab final, I’m going to work on fixing up my blog. Things I would like to fix:
Even though I’m in HTML mode, Wordpress still adds it’s own tags. For example, when I add an image and View Source on the site, I see that it automatically added the closing slash for me.
This plugin fixes it. Yay!Add excerpts so the page isn’t so long
Done! Also limited the page to 5 posts.Add analytics so I can see what browser people who view my site are using. If enough of them are using browsers that support CSS3, then I’ll start playing around with some cool effects if they fit in with the design.
Done, but not tracking yet.Make nice list styles
Added green pluses.- Get my site to validate
- Fix Search page
- Fix comments formatting
- Ajax comments
- Cross-browser testing
- Organize categories by semester
- Make favicon
Pick Data to Analyze for Homework
November 18th, 2009For class we have to pick a data source that updates often and returns a lot of information. I’m going to use Twitter because Stewart recommends it. I’d like to visualize something involving the new ITP vending machine, but I’m not sure what yet, exactly. There are other vending machines that tweet, so maybe a comparison between the few. Or maybe some comparison between ITP students who tweet and the vending machine stock. Read the rest of this entry »