History Wikipedia describes augmented reality as an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects that reside in the real-world are “augmented” by computer-generated perceptual information. Although this definition is what we associate as augmented reality today, concepts of the term have been around for more than a century. The first description of an…
I grew up in a very musically inclined family. My grandfather was featured in two Elvis Presley movies playing the piano and continues to play in venues in the Southern California area with his band The Dick Parent Group while my uncle was selected along with 99 other pianists to play for the 1984 summer…
Introduction When designing any artifact one crucial step is iteration. Being able to iterate quickly and effectively can not only speed up the final products creation, but also allows for much more exploratory design. Further, when looking at the prices of PLA filament versus having custom prototype parts machined, the benefit is clear. Rapid Prototyping…
The wearable technology is a hot topic right now, many companies have tried to bring this technology to us, it’s not only improves the user experience on the certain apps like steps count, music players, notifications, and so on, but also, they can generate amount of data which cannot be tracked by other devices such…
OpenGL OpenGL is an open-source, programmable graphics pipeline used for game making, art and design, visualization, and more. Initially released in the early 90s, OpenGL is one of the most used and most standardized software packages in the world. OpenGL is extremely powerful because it allows developers to program software to run directly on the…
The creative process for me when I create art is very loose and adaptable towards the beginning depending on the project I am starting so I am going to walk you through my process for creating a sculpture within given constraints. This is the final sculpture: The constraints for this sculpture were that it needed…
Introduction Unity, initially released as a game engine development software back in 2005 exclusively for Mac OS-X. It was popular and famous for creating games, but over the recent years, Unity has delivered other possibilities in other areas , such as web, VR and mobile development. In this blog post, Ill be discussing what Unity can…
Today, I am going to introduce two of my music creative practices. The first piece that I want to introduce is a remixing work that I have done years ago. I am a big fan of Joe Hisaishi, a Japanese composer and musical director, therefore, I chose one of his work Summer to do the remixing….
Lathing, or sometimes called turning, is the process of spinning a chunk of material quickly and removing pieces from this with a sharp tool. The purpose behind this is to get a perfectly round result with possible designs made from this. Think of wooden chair legs, they were probably made with a lathe of some…