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=Project 2: Journey (25%)= This project is the design of an experience that communicates movement and passing through a location or a journey. To begin with each student will use photography to capture and map their journey. While doing so, think about how to create a digital version of your journey as a digital experience. The photos that document the journey will be a good starting point for abstraction, deconstruction and various visual explorations.

In class, we will introduce/review how to create motion, interactive and static components in Processing. The expressive potential of the medium will be explored in order to gain an understating of how computation can be used to generate form and content. By using Processing software, students will design and code a series of operations to generate content not easily created using standard desktop tools.

The creative challenge in this project will be to evoke a feeling of movement, travel or journey.
 * take at least 30 photos is a guideline for the scope of the project
 * use your everyday environment as subject matter
 * from home to school, a recent outing downtown, a walk through a neighborhood, a drive to another city, a hike in the woods
 * take notes to document your surroundings/senses ... might be useful later

Specifications
Students are to plan and execute approximately 6- 8 sketches that address the following:
 * 1) Dynamic output - eg save file(s) at various states to pdf, png, etc
 * 2) Typographic experiments - eg. design of typograhic compostions
 * 3) Image processing - use of captured images (photos, scans, illustrations, etc)
 * 4) Video (sound optional) - output of motion to video format

[|Libraries] will be accessed to extend Processing's capabilities ( pdf, video) ...these will be covered in class.

**Deliverables**
> //Project due Mar 16 for in class review//
 * 1) Final 6-8 sketches output for the web and documented in an online format (student examples[|1] [|2][|3])
 * 2) Rough work/ planning hosted on wiki page

Approaches
Some possible approaches to consider when gathering and handling of images for this project.

Photos

 * possible to take photos from the window of the car, bus or train
 * you can find an outdoor or indoor location or a combination of both
 * take photos to communicate scale/length of journey

Drawing

 * this project can be done using hand drawn images if you want
 * using Illustrator and/or Photoshop to convert drawings on paper to digital images
 * drawing tablets can be used to generate digital images

Animation

 * various materials/approaches can be used to create stop motion sequences
 * rotoscope
 * lego
 * etch a sketch

Generative Design

 * abstract images can be created from code using processing, this is known as generate design

Imaging

 * use of PS/Illustrator to edit images
 * batch processing to handle many images at once
 * also optimize images that can be used in Processing's image functions

Week 6 - Feb 9
//at home//
 * review Project 1
 * intro Project 2
 * Processing stuff
 * [|processing review]
 * [|Translate, pushMatrix/popMatrix]
 * [|Embed into HTML]
 * Capture and document journey; post photos to wiki

Week 7- Feb 16
//at home// >
 * Processing review
 * Exercise 1
 * Processing stuff
 * [|loadImage], zip file
 * Dynamic output to pdf
 * PDF export zip file
 * [|Video class library]
 * Complete Exercise 1 for after reading week

Week 8 - Feb 23
**Reading week - no class**

Week 9 - Mar 2
Processing stuff
 * [|Video class library]
 * Exercise 1 due for in class review
 * Complete project 2 sketches
 * Document in web format

Week 10 -Mar 9

 * **Project due for in class review**