CSC151.01 2014F, Class 50: Project Assessment: Images
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* Continue partners!
* We will spend today exploring your projects.  Professor Jeremy Chen of
  studio art will lead our discussion of those projects.
* As you look at images, think about what code you might want to see.
* Because Chen is leading class, we won't do our normal preliminaries.

_Overview_

* Preliminaries.
    * Admin.
    * Upcoming Work.
    * Extra Credit.
    * Questions.
* Reviewing images: The "big picture".
* Reviewing images: Policies for doing individual images.
* Image review.
* Debrief, if appropriate.

Preliminaries
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### Admin

### Upcoming Work

* Exam 4 due MONDAY, December 8.
* No reading for Wednesday.
* No lab write up for today.

### Extra Credit Opportunities

#### Academic

* CS Extras Thursday the 4th: Summer Opportunities in CS

#### Peer Support

* Karan's radio show 11pm Thursday nights on KDIC 
* Evan's radio show 5pm Friday nights on KDIC
* Donna's radio show Sunday midnight on KDIC
* Noteworthy at the Dance performance (Once Upon a Time, Splintered), 
  December 4 and 5 in Flanagan
* One acts, December 5 and 6 in Roberts
* Pioneer Swim Meet, December 5 and 6 in the Osgood

### Questions

Introduction
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*Comments from Jeremy Chen*

* Too often, we let images just fly by us.  It's nice to have an opportunity
  to sit down and look carefully at images.
* Too often, we are only able to look at surface.  We also have an opportunity
  to think about what's happening beneath the surface.
* Lots of geometric work, fairly abstract.
* In talking about these, we can consider some formal aspects.

KD and KN

* Partial goal: To make a tree (something somewhat representational)
* For the rest of the image, trying to have a pattern of lines to add
  a level of complexity.
* Circles "all over the place, but kind of interesting".  Pleasing to look at.
    * Limited the number of colors so that they'd work with most of the
      backgrounds.
    * Limited range of circle sizes to 
* Dimensionality: Laying things on top of each other.
* The first one seems the most naturalistic.  THe last one also
  looks a bit like microsystems - perhaps we've zoomed in on a 
  snowflakes.  Effects of tweaking.
* The first one could be a Merimeko or sweedish design.
* THe circles can give us a snese of depth - is this small or big.
* First one has a very strong diagnoal.
* The gradiant deals with depth
* What changes make us think about nature/winter in the first one and
  more geometry in the last one.
* The last one seems more like shapes.  The parallel lines seems less 
  natural and more geometric/artificial.
* THe backgrounds also have a significant effect.  The last one feels
  much more like it's just there.  The others pull your attention away
  from the tree.
* How do we read the figure and ground, and read the striations.

SH and JT and CM and YC

* "We wanted to amke flowers on a branch, and so we did"
* Four background colors to represent four seasons
* The curvature, length, and positions of the stems change over time
* Number of flowers changes over time
* Chen: Think about the limits of things
* Relationships between things; when do thsoe limits break?
* Relate to the real world - there are limitations there.
* Representational, but also clearly not a photograph.
* How do we respond to thse compositionally?
    * Appreciation of the large negative space to the right and 
      below.
    * Composition is different if we change the image shape.  How do
      we read it in terms of gravity.  (Think about the flowers falling.)
    * Maybe we could have some more relationships with other things.
* Relationships between the characters (and the background is one of your
  characters)
* Gradual refinement / micro/macro
* Peer comments
    * "The curvature is nice (although I don't have the vocabulary to say so."
    * "The colors work very well."  (Chen: Clarity of relationship between
      fore and ground.)

DF and KS 

* Start with a background image and overlay different polygons.  Invert
  colors to add dimensionality.  Varied polygons, colors, positions, etc.
* We get some "buzz"
* Interesting perception issues: How do we see shapes
* Camoflage
* Seeing the whole and still discerning shapes; somewhat bizarre that we
  can do with this.
* Deimsionality: What do you see as being on top or below?
* Supposedly, warm colors come toward us and cool colors recede.
* What's positive shape and what's negative ground?
* "Rotating snakes optical illustion."
* Color can "assault" our senses

KC

* Seems to be deonstructing the image
* Do we go far enough in the charles bridge image?
* The last seems about parts to make a shole.
* Forces you to notice different details.  Helps you notice different aspects:
  Yellowlight, difference between trees, and more.
* Also how chefs deconstruct a dish - help people pay attention to the parts they had not paid we had't paid attention to beofre.
* How do you look at it differnetly if you don't know the original.