Week 2 February 4, 2008
Posted by bperdue in : Uncategorized , trackbackOkay, what to talk about…I guess I’ll start by reiterating some of what I mentioned during the meeting last Wednesday, since it hasn’t been mentioned here yet. I’ve read several papers (I found a good set of stuff of visualizations through the ACM Digital Library), and have several more waiting to be read. I’ve gotten some foundation for the topic of music visualization and I’ve started browsing in the specifics. Most of the projects I’ve read about so far have been for personal use, hypothetically, usually in something similar to iTunes. One of them was actually user-customizable, so not quite what I’m looking for. Still, there are some useful principles throughout.
As far as what I’ve done since the Wednesday meeting, that’s basically all been in Second Life. Which is not to say that’s a lot just yet. I spent a couple of hours last night getting things set-up so that I had an account and had at least an inkling of an idea what I was doing. I had a little trouble with the connection (I got kicked off of SL something like three times in two hours, and had to try several times to log on), but once I got on things ran okay. I’m on now, and have encountered no problems tonight.
I haven’t taken any classes yet, but I’ve taken a look at the offerings for the next week and noted the ones I can make, so I’ll be taking some classes over the course of the week (including in just a few minutes). I’ll have taken two by the meeting on Wednesday to meet my quota, and easily two more by next Wednesday, barring some sort of catastrophic SL meltdown.
Speaking of, I should probably get to that class. To whom it may concern, my SL login is Kopelo Faulkes.
-Brandon
EDIT: Oh, yeah, that whole hours-a-week thing. Counting tonight’s class, I’m at around 5 hours since the last post on the blog.
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