assignments
due Thu Sep 9
images 1
- Read the following wikipedia articles :
- Answer the following questions (using the "submit work" link to the right):
- What is a pixel? Are SVG images made up of pixels?
- What is the difference between a JPG and PNG image? When would you use each?
- What is "24bit color"? "32bit color"?
- What color is (255,255,0)?
- Install the GIMP and (if time allows) Inkscape on your computer, if you have one. See the resources page for links. Start playing around with at least one of them. (The lab computers have GIMP.)
- Finally, tell me something about yourself :
- What experience do you have with computer applications for images, sound, video, etc?
- What particularly are you interested in?
due Thu Sep 16
images - work in class
- Submit a proposal and description of your image project.
- Come to class :
- a) with your laptop and source photos, ready to work on (and/or discuss) that project.
- b) prepared to share a gimp technique of your choice; browse the resources or google around for resources.
due Thu Sep 23
image project
- Submit your photo manipulation (both gimp file and jpg output) , the originals it came from, and a description of what you did.
- Be prepared to share your work in class.
due Thu Sep 30
audio project - work in class
- Submit a proposal and description of your audio project.
- Should be either (a) a modification of a single audio file (effects, splicing, ...) and/or (b) a combination of several audio files (e.g. voice over music)
- Work in class on it - headphones would help.
due Thu Oct 7
audio project
- Submit your audio project, including original files (and where they came from), final sound file, audacity working copy, and a description of what you did.
- Come to class ready to discuss your submitted work.
due Fri Oct 15
3D project - work in class
- (I've put this up late, and so have put the due date as Friday.)
- Submit a proposal and description of your 3D project.
- Tell me which application (blender or sketchup) you plan to work with, and what you're going to create with it, including which tutorials and/or files you'll be working with.
- Come to class on Thu with the application installed, resources on hand, and ready to work.
due Thu Oct 21
3D project
- Submit your 3D project, a list of the tutorials or files you started with, and a description of what you did.
- Come to class ready to discuss what you did.
due Thu Oct 28
video project - work in class
- submit a proposal for a small video editing project.
- Go directly to the multimedia lab up in the library, not to Sci 117, to work on it there, with some files / materials to get started.
due Thu Nov 4
video project
- Submit your video editing project, including all files and materials, and a description of what you did.
due Thu Nov 11
term project proposal
- Describe your term project, which will be
- a more in depth look at any (or several combined in one piece) of the technologies we've looked at.
- a paper describing what you did, including listing your source materials
due Thu Nov 18
draft term project
- Come to class ready to show a draft of your work so far.
- Upload a description of what you've done, and some sort of work showing your progress.
due Thu Dec 2
term project class presentations
- Our last class.
- Come to class ready to show your term project, which should be in a "close to finished" state
due Fri Dec 10
final term projects
- Turn in your final project :
- paper describing what you did
- finished product file(s) (i.e. the movie or audio or whatever)
- working files (i.e. the gimp or sketchup file)
- source files (anything you used to start from)
- If the files are big, talk to Jim about a way to deliver them that isn't through the web page, such has a CD or flash drive copy or whatever.
term grade
- a place for Jim to record the course grade.
