Course Review

Things Learned
As its name suggested, Interactive Media course is an interactivity-directed course where we learn how to make some animations, interact with some physical devices such as a Board, or even combine both.
First of all the Interactive Media course gave us an understanding about these two software Processing and Arduino.

Processing which is an open source programming language helped us program images, animation, and interactions. For instance, we learned how to deal with Images and text as well as make motions.
One thing that is important to notice is the fact that Processing programming language is based on Java language; so it was not too difficult to cope with it since we already had some experience with that language.

Arduino on the other hand, was quite more interesting since it included Hardware and Software. For instance we could write codes and at the same time make some designs on an Arduino Board. The most exciting part of Arduino is the fact that you can first program on the board and then upload it on the Software.

Favorite Homework
- Processing: My favorite homework (Homework 8 – Processing Test). I this homework we were asked to design a fan. I really quite impressed because we can only use translate() and rotate() function to design a very nice looking FAN.
- Arduino: My favorite homework was Arduino LED show.

Comments
Overall I have a great appreciation of this course because it was practical, useful and fun at the same time. However I wish we could learn even more!

Homework 5 - Image Browser

This homework was quite interesting because it is useful.

We were supposed to design an Image Browser that is used to displayed images according to the user's choices. All the images are stored in a folder and are given specific names.

At first, I did not really know how to make this assignment, but after discussing with my teammate, I was able to make it.

Project-Show

This is our Project Show which is the combination of Arduino and Processing.

This project is called RainDrop where the player has to catch the rain drop falling at a given speed.

First the game was only designed using Processing. Later on we add Arduino board where users can press buttons in order to catch the rain drops.

Very entertaining and lots of fun!!

Piano [Arduino]

This project called Piano Show is about simulating a Piano using the Arduino board.

Users can press different buttons corresponding to the piano buttons and make different sounds.

It iwas quite a great feeling to see how a Piano can be simulated using a simple board such as Arduino.

I hope to learn more in the days to come.

LED Traffic Lights

This project is about LED Traffic Light. In this project we had to design stuff like scroller and binary counter. We also made some slow and fast blink.

This project was intersting because it is kind of traffic light simulation, which is close to reality.

Hmwk6-ZONGO

Image Animating Application

We learned this week to make some image movement such as fade in, fadeout, horizontal movement, or vertical movement.

The image make a special movement according to the user's mouse action.

This homework was quite interesting, though a bit difficult for the first time.

Homework7: Cases Studies

HW07-1: Coordinate system translation

This week, I learned about translate function. That is how to change the X and Y coordinate of an object. It was quite interesting though I took time to understand the idea behind it.

In addition, I learned about radius angle with processing;

Finally, I learned to make some motions using FrameRate and changing the values of the angle degree.

Please try it HERE

Homework 4

We learned to save a file with Processing, which was very interesting.

We also learned more about how to use Font and stuff like that.

It is getting more and more complicated as we move forward in this class;

For instance how to use Erase or Clean was not that straightforward.

I am looking forward to learning more next week and to make the image browser.

Please try it HERE

Homework 3 , ZONGO

Interaction with mouse

HW03-1

HW03-2

The course of Interactive Media this week was a bit more dynamic.

We have learned to have some mouse interaction with the images that we draw.

For instance, we have learned to use functions such as mouseX, mouseY; In addition we have also learned to draw lines and used other functions such as pmouseX, pmouseY, and buttons.

Obviously it is getting harder and harder, but at the same time more and more interesting.

I just hope to cope along with it...

Homework2 - ZONGO

Random rectangle

Nested Loop

4*3 Circles

Comments:

The second homework has helped me learned new functions for Processing.

For instance, we have learned to draw objects in a random way, as well as how to add colors and stuff like that.

The last part of the homework which was the nested loop was also quite interesting even though, it took me some time. Hope to learn more... Keep it cool!!

Homework1-ZONGO

my own

I had a pretty good impression about the use of Processing as a programming tool for design.

For the first class, what we did was to simulate geometric painting with PAINT and also PROCESSING. The second one was one to me and I enjoyed turning few code into real picture and shapes.

For instance, I have learned to use few line of codes such as

size()

background()

fill()
rect()
strokeWeight()
line()noStroke()

Problems encountered in this homework were how to reproduce a painting in a very accurate way.

I hope to get the best of these tools by the end of this class.