Bee Project

For this project Grayton, Ryan and I decided to make a small interactive piece based off of bee pollination. The user uses the mouse to move the bee around the screen. The bee follows. If the bee runs into any flowers it will pollinate them which will make another flower appear on the screen. Each flower can be visited only once, except for the one permanent flower on the screen. After 30 seconds the flowers that spawned will disappear. The goal of this project was to make an interactive piece that uses the mechanics of the "game" or program to express the importance of bees and the process of pollination.

The work I did on this project consisted of making the software. I coded the project in C# using the Unity game engine. Ryan Downes made the art for the game and Grayton Newman did documentation and made the sounds for the game.

Biosensing Project

For our project Ryan, Grayton and I decided to make a skiing game that used two biosensors, one on each arm. Ryan made the two sensors, and Grayton made music for the game and did the documentation. In order to use the bio-data in our game I used Max 7 to take in the data from the microphones. I then did a UDP send that sent the amplitude from each mic 10 times per second. I used OSC Simpl to receive the data in the Unity game engine:

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/input-management/osc-simpl-53710

The idea of the game is that it is an endless runner where the player has three health points, if they hit a tree they lose one. There are coins that give them extra points and health pickups that will give them one health point, to a max of 3. The player can move left and right to avoid the obstacles by using their muscles. The sensors on their arm will send the data to Unity and which ever is louder will be the direction the player will move towards.

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The Max patch that sends the bio data

The game showing all the UI and the tree, coin and health pack

One of the two sensors that straps to your arm

Project 1: Transcoding and Biopattern Remix

For my first project I decided to focus on the predator and prey relationship between the grizzly bear and the elk. I decided to use Max 7 for this project. I made a patch that takes a sound and video of both the elk and grizzly bear. In order to replicate or remix the relationship between them I made it so that when the bear sound gets loud the elk sound will get quiet and the video of the bear will become stronger and the video of the elk will fade out. When the bear is quiet and the elk is loud the elk's video will become more prominent. Interestingly the elk appears in the outline of the bear which looks nice. There are also a couple of video effects that can be turned on, but I personally don't like them too much.

Patch without the video effects on

Patch with the video effects on

Output with the video effects

Output without the video effects

Output without the video effects

Here is the patch code, you can copy and paste this into Max 7 MSP.

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Bear video source

Elk video source