Month: December 2018

Our project aimed to create a music visualization tool, suitable for “desktop” usecases: either at home fiddling with a MIDI controller or on the stage with some artificial magnification. The system is capable of consuming live-streamed MIDI data, and creates a beautiful and relaxing environment. Check out our final video presentation below!

Video games aren’t like what they used to be. Many games these days are astronomically expensive, some running for $60 or more. Even if you can afford the game you want, you’ll need to make a lot of space on your computer or upgrade your storage, as it’s not uncommon for a modern game to…

Today we are going to talk about a new augmented reality graffiti app that we recently discovered. Currently this web app is only available to Android users with Chrome Canary installed, but with the rise of augmented reality technologies and development we expect it to available to anybody in the near future. What is augmented…

PulsR is a running companion app that provides users with training regimens that are imported onto a calendar. Unlike popular running apps such as Strava, RunKeeper, etc. where a user is left to their own devices in making progress, PulsR advises a user to run specified amounts on said calendar. This app is meaningful because…

Introduction The Empathy Project was created by Heather Cole, Ben Moliterno, Wei Yuan, and Annie Zukowski for Creative Computing Studio during the fall of 2018. The Empathy Project portrays what a manic and psychotic experience of a person with Bipolar I Disorder could be like. This artistic representation gives a taste of inner thoughts, feelings,…

Reflecting on subtle intricacies of mixing hardware and software As the title suggests, this is what the majority of my semester involved with regards to this class. While at times it has been a struggle to keep on track I think from an educational point of view, it has been well worthwhile. Having to work…

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Computer science has always intrigued me in applying what I already know and sharing experiences with teammates in order to pursue a goal in a fashion that, individually, we would fail to accomplish. Creative Computing Studio has provided numerous opportunities to invoke my artistic side, perhaps less in UI as I had initially anticipated, but…

I love working on this project because we are doing a creative practice of my interest—music.   Our project is building a water fountain music visualizer that responding to the music in real-time. There are three main stages of our design and building process. First stage is brainstorming and making designs. The second stage is working…

Fahad Ashraf Self-Reflection Essay 1 I am really glad to have chosen to take the Creative Computing Capstone. As a Computer Science major, we often take many classes that deal with architecture, algorithms and data structures. Many, if not all, of our projects are very rigid in terms of requirements and we are often tasked…