Jordan Parsons

The Share Experiment

Jordan Parsons — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:42:27 +0000

Recently I was invited to participate in the Share Experiment, a development project by Yannick Assogba, an MIT media lab student. It was a week long processing programming experiment where the participants shared their code in effort to study how the code is used and how people work off of it. Here is the official [...]

S09 Final: Knot

Jordan Parsons — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:41:35 +0000

The assignment was to take an existing project, and use our final three weeks to take it even farther. There were stipulations of course, and I was steered towards my knot project. The knot project was a wood shop project, that was to interpenetrate a knot into five segments. I had chosen the taught line [...]

Processing – Boid Steering v1

Jordan Parsons — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:06:42 +0000

This is my attempt to create a class of creatures that I can manipulate with different forces and rules. I am doing this as a base to create a pattern for an upcoming project. I have the basics down, but the real trouble for me is collision detection, but I am working through it. I [...]

Light Modulator

Jordan Parsons — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:15:55 +0000

Our latest IDM assignment was to create a light modulator. Working with my partner Aaron Chenault, we designed the following setup for our light modulator. We have yet to laser cut it, but when I do I will have pictures of the cut and assembly. So here are the details of the assignment along with [...]

Processing – (Not so) Glitchy Gravity

Jordan Parsons — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:12:14 +0000

Well I’m trying to wrap my head around vectors in processing because I am not giving up on my flocking simulation and vectors seem to be key to the navigation. So I am following some tutorials by Daniel Shiffman. They are some very nice tutorials and I worked on adapting his gravity tutorial, so that [...]

V-Ray – HDRI Skymaps

Jordan Parsons — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:04:42 +0000

One of the facets of rendering that has interested me was HDRI, but when I used Mental Ray in 3dsmax it was a little to complicated for me to get right. So now that I have switched to V-Ray, I decided to give it a try. I found some free HDRI skymaps here:Evermotion. With those [...]

Processing – Tweet Sized Sketches

Jordan Parsons — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:05:04 +0000

140 characters, the size of a tweet, not much else. Well thanks to a post fromAndy Best. I attempted to write a sketch in 140 characters, and my best came out to 137. Only one now but its pretty late, check out his post and the comments for some pretty cool examples. I really suggest [...]

Processing – Object Oriented Programming Box Boids

Jordan Parsons — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:05:49 +0000

With all my recent free time (I’m on break) I’ve been really going at processing. Here is another batch of code I wrote. This one works as an applet, so you can see it in action, http://www.jordanparsons.com/processing/oop_boxes/. Its a simple series of boxes with small circles in them that function as individual “boids” or entities [...]

Processing – DNA Surface Generator

Jordan Parsons — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:35:34 +0000

Well this is another processing project. I started with

Processing – Line Generator

Jordan Parsons — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:09:42 +0000

I just started working with Processing, and have developed a few basic applications. This one is really simple but its kinda fun in a geeky sort of way. The basic premise is that is uses user input of the size of the window to generate random lines of increasing white levels that then cycles back [...]