Day 1 Today, I designed some name stickers out of vinyl using the vinyl plotter. We were introduced to Adobe Illustrator and learned about the differences between vector and raster images. To make the stickers, we typed in our names into Ado...
Day 2 Today, we started learning about Adobe Illustrator’s pen function, rotate function, and the reflect function. We did an exercise where we traced a picture of a normal expression. We learned how to make curved lines with the pen function. We d...
Day 3 Today, we continued working on our Superman comic project and mine actually turned out pretty well. When we all finished, we did a design challenge called the Vormator where we were only allowed to use 8 elements/shapes to make something o...
Day 4 Today, we went on a field trip to UCSD. We first took a tour inside a building called Calit2 and went inside a little movie theater. We watched little clips and videos taken by a 4k camera and projected by a 4k projector. We were then led into anot...
Day 5 Today, we learned about for-loops and continuous modes. We started interacting with the program using computer mice and making shapes move around and change color with every swipe. I also learned how to make shapes move across the screen by themselv...
Day 8 Today in Creative Computing class, we learned how to use arrays in Processing. Arrays allow you to store more than one value in a variable. Each number is stored in an index in the variable. We made a lot of circles move across the screen and chan...
Day 8 Today, we tested out our prototypes that were cut out of cardboard. I didn’t finish my model’s pieces, so I worked on Ms. Fabiola’s example instead. Anyway, my design was pretty similar to her’s. The hard part about usin...
Today, we started working on our “final project”, which is the one we will be showcasing to our parents. I am doing a cartoon owl that is going to hoot and/or blink when the user clicks with the mouse. I was drawing the shape of the owl today,...
