Author Archives: Akiva Krauthamer

Akiva Krauthamer

05 Apr 2016

I’d like to use my final project as an opportunity to continue working with my “drawing program” that uses a Kinect to overlay images on to the human form. I’m interested in both improving the code I’ve already created and …

Akiva Krauthamer

05 Apr 2016

This project was a trail of exploration starting with a large database of Japanese woodblock prints and an interest in using code to learn about the process that made them.

The database I used was ukiyo-e.org created by the amazing …

Akiva Krauthamer

24 Mar 2016

The dataset that I’ve chosen to use is a collection of 223,128 Japanese woodblock prints collected from museums, collectors, dealers, Universities and more.
Ukiyo-e.org

The Ukiyo-e dataset is fantastic. It’s easy to use, gathers data from a huge number of …

Akiva Krauthamer

14 Mar 2016

I created a map of a single stair case in the Purnel Center for the Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. To do this I created a simple jig to hold a DSLR above a step in a fixed position. Next …

Akiva Krauthamer

23 Feb 2016

My proposal for project 2 is visual site map. Site maps were a common feature on early website, but have started to fall out of favor. Classically a site map is a tree style diagram that shows the connections between …

Akiva Krauthamer

02 Feb 2016

Fracture.io by MPC Digital NY is a beautiful and fun project. It aims to take the photo booth experience to a new level by capturing 3D point clouds of the people inside and them modifying the files before displaying them. …

Akiva Krauthamer

02 Feb 2016

@ThisThingIs by Luca Damasco is funny, original, technically impressive, and trains people how to deal with the reality of current image recognition software.

 

 

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Akiva Krauthamer

02 Feb 2016

My bot is called @Fireworks_Sim and it can be found at https://twitter.com/Fireworks_Sim

“This bot creates a tiny simulation every hour. The goal is to launch the fireworks skywards. Created by Akiva Krauthamer

My main goal …

Akiva Krauthamer

02 Feb 2016

The first part of this project was to pick a data set and then map it geographically. I chose the data set of close to half a million hotels world wide. There were two main reasons I picked this data …