Thoughts On A Few Projects

To be honest, I feel that Marie's "Path Taken" would be a rather interesting project to create on a visual screen (though would be much more appealing on a floor).  I can visualize a grid that lights up squares as the mouse hovers over them to light it up (easy statement, no "off switch" necessary).  Then more statements involving color changes if the user moves the cursor outside the path, with a random generator fill (three random variables in place of integers).  It should be visually appealing as well as fun to do and able to do in the given time frame.
Brian's musical work also interests me because it is not visual art (though could be tied together) and seems like it would be an entertaining program to work on.  I would need more information to truly elaborate though.

Art Ideas

1).  A blank screen that requires user interface.  Changes shapes upon key press, mirrors shape in different colors and random properties.
2).  Shapes falling that when hit the floor turn into several other shapes, repeats multiple times.
3).  Sound/Art video, movement corresponding to song.
4).  3D Kinect images.
5).  Mirrored objects, shapes continuously drawn until different shape is desired, does not fade.  On set timer.
6).  Timeline of Grade School-College
7.)  Impossible tic-tac-toe.  User plays a game of tic tac toe against the AI, if a win condition is present, the last shape drawn is random (ex) triangle.
8).  Animate coffee mug cycling different Java language terms
9.)  Paintball fight via clicking mouse
10).  Fuzzy image that becomes more focused when mouse moved, if moved too fast screen goes black.

Artistic Statment

Joe McGeachy is an installation artist who works with reflective materials and light. He is putting the power of curiosity and light into the observers hands with his latest work, "Source Reflection." With a room made of mirrors, he gives the observer the power to explore the true power of light. With every angle imaginable at the palm of the observers hands. With only the limit of curiosity, all is possible with his latest work, "Source Reflection." Will update when more refined ideas are introduced.

Visual Poetry Representation

The purpose of this assignment was to create a text file breaking down the parts of speech of an existing poem, and creating a random generator to alter and edit the different parts of speech.  Originally I wanted to use the delay() function in Processing to make the poem appear at different portions, however it only worked in the black box of the print statements as opposed to the actual output of the program.  I did however make my own fonts and got them to change depending on if the word was a verb, noun, adjective, ect.  In order to add some variety to the code, I drew a rectangle that appears wherever the  mouse is on the screen.  The rectangle is moderately sized so that it can cover any noun on the screen to hide it.  If the reader does not like the output or if the noun given does not make sense, they can scroll over it to hide it for the poem to make more sense.  This rectangle also does not hide any of the other parts of speech, so it does not interrupt the flow of the poem.  I had a lot of fun with this project despite the errors I encountered along the way.  The poem that I decided to scramble was "The Sexless Innkeeper" as seen in How I Met Your Mother.  The poem created followed the scheme of The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.  While a few poems created were difficult to read all the way through, others produced a few hearty chuckles.