What are neural networks? Biologically speaking, a mystery. Mathematically speaking, also a mystery. This video is helpful, though. This entire channel is. I think that there is something to be said about the quality of education you can find on youtube for free. I also watched a lot of various Adobe After Effects videos throughout…

 What’s up everyone?   Crazy that I’m writing this from my living room table, now fully defined as my at-home workspace. Depuis la confinement a commence il a ete difficile vraiment de faire la majorité de chose. Mais, je voudrais finir de fort au Université du Colorado Boulder . Par example, je voudrais créer un…

Well, I hit a few roadblocks within the past two weeks. I’m sure all of us can relate. Related to this project, I received some bad news: a friend who was going to “donate” an .mp3 of an old track lost the file with a computer crash. 🙁 The good news: I found more music. See…

Part 1 Presentation insp music: https://soundcloud.com/bretamsterdam/sets/daycare-15-02-2020   Mesh sculpture 1961 Katsuhiro Yamaguchi born 1928 Purchased with funds provided by the Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee 2015 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T14164

To get everyone up to speed: I’m hoping to develop music visualizations through fractals using python3. I’m hoping to generate various types of fractals. There exist a variety of constraints related to video editing: Music synchronization. This is probably my  largest concern related to this project. I am currently able to output images at a…

Something simple. Not sure if it has a name. So, the koch curve is hard! Some issues so far: Diagonal lines are hard. Adding thickness is variable. Resolution is hard. I think I need to figure out how to properly use recursion. I’m starting to get pretty good with Python3, which is a plus. I’ve…

Fractals are a pretty neat mathematical phenomenon that I had the pleasure of exploring through my Chaos Theory class last fall. I ended the class with a comprehensive project studying fractals in nature, a topic I find beautifully interesting both from a visual and mathematical point of view. Hot take: I love mathematics. I also…

Inspiration My inspiration for this project came from a bit of digging, a bit of Pinterest browsing, and an ever-growing pile of recycling in my apartment that was begging to be repurposed. I’m a lover of art; I try my best to practice when I have the time in various forms. Something that I’ve always…

So, as it goes I decided to change the direction of my upscale project. I had originally planned to manufacture my own wooden beads using the wood lathe in the ITLL, however this proved to to not align with the purpose of this project as well as I had originally hoped. First, the quality of…

I’ve always been a strong proponent for sustainable living, therefore the idea of a project focused on reusing material excites me. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do for the Upscale project, and I’ve landed on the idea of making my own wooden beads for bracelets. It may be biting off…

Psychedelia is defined as the music, culture, or art based on the experiences produced by psychedelic drugs. The first origin of psychedelics is unknown, although the use of plants such as peyote cacti and “magic mushrooms” have been a part of traditional religion and medicine for centuries due to their ability to promote physical and…