Digital Studies 301A: Creative Coding Fall 2018 The time has come to end the semester and this class, but the learning and interest will never stop. Our last task was to create a portfolio of 4 projects we wanted to improve on, so I decided on my Twitter Bot, my Read More
Time
Past time is finite, future time is infinite. -Edwin Powell Hubble Time is social construct that measures the length of existence. Time never stops. For this creative coding project, we had to create a sketch with p5.js. I created a screen with lights continuously flowing and the time displayed in Read More
A Novel
This new project was coding a novel in Jupyter for National Novel Generation Month (NaNoGenMo), a project that started from a tweet in 2013. Our novel had to generate at least 50,000 words, mine generates about twice as much. I combined two different stories from Project Gutenberg, which was Siddhartha Read More
Screensaver
For this new project, we had to create a screensaver with javascript in p5.js. I wanted something soothing and eye catching, so I decided to create a cherry blossom screensaver. Using the Snowflakes example by Aatish Bhatia, I set a light blue background with pink petals sweeping across the screen in Read More
Glitch Art
For this Creative Coding project, we learned about Glitch Art, which is data manipulation that changes images into something else. We learned three different glitch methods, databending, which is using different software, such as Audacity to change image files, pixel sorting, which is using Python to rearrange the pixels of Read More
More Poetry? Oh Noetry
Here it is again. Poetry time. Once again, I used Microsoft Azure Notebooks, which gave me access to the web application, Jupyter Notebooks, to code in Python a poem that rhymes. The template I used was Romeo`s speech to Juliet when he meets her for the first time. Original: If I Read More
Poetry Remix
Here it is, my poetry remix project. I used Python code to pull a random adjective and noun from Grimm`s Fairytales text from the Gutenberg Project and format it into 4 lines of poetry. Example: second tree wild hatchet scarlet revenge old ‘ I used Microsoft Azure Notebooks, which gave me access Read More
It’s a Twitter Bot
It is done. My Twitter Bot is done! I started off with just wanting my bot to pull random lines from the first two books of the Iliad and make a new poem, but then I decide to throw in a Robert Frost poem, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Read More
Twitter Bot
First week of Creative Coding is done! We talked about making Twitter bots and looked at some great sources, such as Kate Compton’s Tracery Tutorial, “Who’s Responsible for What Bots say Online?,” and more. We also made fake Twitter accounts to post our Twitter bots to and we will use Cheap Bots, Done Quick Read More
Adventures in Digital History – Final Thoughts
We are finally done! This semester, six other class members and I worked on digitizing a 500 page register and creating an interactive map for National Park Service and the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. We created a website through Omeka that contains information about the register, the map, and history of Read More