Day 11

 When the Virtual meets the Physical: Bio Bots

 “These are novel living machines,” Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont who co-led the new research, said in a statement. “They’re neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It’s a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism.”

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Biobots

The field of Biobots is relatively new and has a variety of ideologies from animal brains controlling robot bodies, animal bodies being connected to electronics and new lifeforms being designed with new technologies.

 

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3d Design and 3d Printing

 
3d printing has been used by industry since the mid 1980's. It is used to print everything from food to guns to human tissue.

Our Makerbot 3D printers work through additive manufacturing. This is accomplished by laying down thin layers of plastic, one on top of the other, to build up a 3d structure.

3D models can be built in 3d software programs or captured with a 3d scanner or digital camera.

 

Websites

Thingiverse - free download 3d model library

Shapeways - Create and Sell 3d models

TinkerCad
- create an account here
- Your TinkerCad Home Page




TinkerCad Basics

- whats where

Starters get help here

Placing an Object

Controlling the View 

Moving your Object

Rotate your Object

Change the size of your Object

Lessons get info here

Learning the Moves

Camera Controls

Scale, Copy and Paste

 

 

 

Studio  

 

- create 3D digital sculptures

 

 

 

 

Outside of Class Time 

- Review Vectary - How to import an STL

- Review Vectary - How to texture wrap a 3D model

 

 

 

 

Projects  

 

- Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards pt.2 & pt.3

- Work on Project 4 Digital Sculptures 

 

 

 

 

Day 10

 

Plants are fighting back!

 

 

 

 

 

Human - Cyborg - Android - Robot

 

 

 

Levels of mediation

real -----> virtual

 

 

 

 

In Class

Artivive - in class how to create 6 layer AR experience

 

 

 

 

Studio

- create ATC AR in Photopea & Artivive

 

 

 

 

Outside of Class time

- Review Tinkercad - How to export STLs
- Download Membit App and make an account

 

 

 

 

Projects

Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards 

 

Part 2 - Create a 9 up of each of your two artist trading cards. Save the files as Photoshop PDF's and email them to copycenter@hartwick.edu. Ask for each file to be printed in color on 8.5 x 11" card stock. Each file should be printed twice.

 

Part 3 - Create a 6 layer augmented reality experience in Artivive. (five PNG layers and one JPG trigger layer)

 

 

 

Project 4 Digital Sculptures

 

For this project you will be creating abstract or realistic sculptures using TinkerCad and Vectary online 3d molding software. 

 

Part 1 - create at least 12 different prototypes 3D models spending no more than 10min on each model in Tinkercd. Show the professor your 3D models. 

 

Part 2 - Texture wrap your 6 favorite 3D models. Wrap 2 with JPEGs from your artist trading cards. The other 4 can be wrapped with any JPG images you choose. 

 

 

 

Day 9

Review ATCs

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Getting your ATC set up for Augmented Reality

 

* How to split an image into 6 layers
 

Step 1 - Open your flattened artist trading card in Photopea (or Photoshop). This will be your background(trigger) image in Artivive.

 

Step 2 - Duplicate the base layer to create a copy on a second layer. Use the 'eraser tool' and/or the selection tools to delete the aspects of the image that you don't want to see on that plane.

Step 3 - Repeat 'Step 2' until you have six total layers

Step 4 - Save your image as a PSD file

 

Step 5 - Go to 'File' --> 'Export Layers'. Use the following settings.

 

 

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Look for a ZIP file in the downloads folder

 

 

 

 

 

Doubble click the ZIP to open a folder. Inside the folder will be your PNG layer files!

Outside of Class time

- Review Tinkercad - How to Basics
- Review Thingiverse - How to download a 3D model 

 

 

 

Projects
- Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards pt.2 & pt.3

 

 

 

 

Day 8

Will virtual and augmented reality move us into the knowledge age? by Zenka

[15:18]

 

 

Example of Exponential Change

XR - Extended Reality

AR - Augmented Reality

VR - Virtual Reality

MR - Mixed Reality

 

AR examples jvonstengel.com

Augmented Reality with Artivive

download the app!

 

 

 

Outside of class work

Review Photopea - Exporting PNG layers for Artivive

Review Artivive - How to 3D Pro Basics 

 

 

 

Projects

Assigned Project 3 Artist Trading Cards Part 2 (9 up) & Part 3 (AR) due end of semester

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Day 7

Vector Drawings Review Day 2

 

 

 

Neural Networks 

A digital solution for Artificial Intelligance 

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Ai - Perplexity as a research tool

 

 

Studio 

- Create ATC’s in Photopea

- Laser etch Vector images

 

 

 

Outside of Class

- Download Artivive App
- Review Photopea - How to break an image into 6 layers for AR

- Review Photopea - How to Create a 9 up on an 8.5x11” paper

 

 

Projects

- Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards upload to the Google Photos Albu

 

 

 

 

Day 6

Review Project 2 Vector Drawings

Topics

- Ai - The Purpose of life Video

[10min 40sec]

 

 

 

Skill Building

- AI Using Chat GPT (Ask it questions, make artist statements)

- Ai - Image Generation

 

DALL-E 2 Ai Image Generator link

- note you only get 15 credits

 

 

 

DALL E examples of how different "prompts" can change an outcome.

1 Alien planet with robots and monstrous creatures roaming the landscape in a cyberpunk style as a photograph

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2 Alien planet with robots and monstrous creatures roaming the landscape as a photograph

3 Alien planet with robots and monstrous creatures roaming the landscape as an etching

4. colorful alien planet alive with plants, with robots and monstrous creatures roaming the landscape  rendered as 1970's fantasy painting

- Google - Advanced Image Search example

 
- Photopea - in class ATC example 2

 

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Studio Time

- create ATC’s in Photopea

 

 

Projects

- Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards 

 

 

 

 

Day 5

Review 

Project 1 Bad Photos

 

 

Skills

Example - Creating an Artist Trading Card in Photopea

 

 

Studio Time

- create ATC’s in Photopea

Outside of Class

HC: How to create an ATC in Photopea

  

Projects 

Project 3 Artist Trading Cards

description:

For this project you will be creating 'Artist Trading Cards' also known as ATCs. The creation of ATCs by artist comes from a long history of artists trading small samples of their work with other artist or were sold to make a little extra cash. They were very popular with Impressionistic era artists. The cards are generally 2.5" x 3.5" big and are either unique or are created in small editions.

 

example links:

ATC Wike

ATC collection

 

whats due:

- 8 different Artist Trading Cards, 2.5" x 3.5" in size at 180dpi.

- Each card shows examples of your ability to manipulate images using Photopea

- Each card should have a total of at least five layers. Three layers of people places, and/or things, one texture layer and one layer of color.

- All your cards files need to be uploaded as flattened 'jpegs' to the Google class assignment album.

 

What should you do?

This is an open project. Be creative, express yourself. Find your style, create something retro-cool, urban chic, surreal abstraction, whatever, just create 8 images you are proud of.

 

First due date

Your 8 images uploaded to the class Google Albums. Label your card files with your first and last name and a number.

Example - joevonstengel-1.jpg, joevonstengel-2.jpg. Save as JPEG file format.

 

Second due date: day of the Final

Layout your artist trading cards as 8 ups. Print your two best cards 16 times each. Cut them out and sign them. Have them ready for the final

 

 

 

 

Project 2 Vector Drawings Part 2 

- Review processed drawings Monday Sept 11th

 

Day 4

What are Vector Graphics?

Vector graphics are a purely virtual form of drawing. It is geometry based digital drawing system.

There are many file types that can save a vector graphic

The most common file type is the SVG (scalable vector graphic).  All the digitally based production technology in the FabLab, like the laser cutter, C-N-C router, vinyl cutter, and 3D printers utilize the SVG file type.

Hand Drawn Etching

 

 

Hand Drawn Vector Graphic

Vector Graphics Image Search

 

 

 

The Fabrication Lab (FabLab )

- Digital production equipment used to cut into or etch onto a variety of materials including; wood, metal, plastic, rubber, leather & ceramic.

 

3D Printing

Glowforge Laser cutter/engraver

Digital C-n-C router

[4 min 36 sec]

[13 min 35 sec]

 

 

Laser etching wood and plastic

Image translated into a vector and laser etched into cherry plywood

 

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Studio Time
Work on Project 2
- Process 5x5” drawings in Photopea



Outside of Class Time
- Review Photopea - Creating an ATC
- Review Ai Image generation

 

DALL-E 2 Ai Image Generator link

- note you only get 15 'credits' a month so there is a limit on how much you can generate without paying.

Projects

Project 2  Laser Cut Vector Design
[Due] Thur Sept 6th by 10pm

description:
For this project you will digitize your drawings, clean the images in a photo editor, turn them into a vector graphic, and etched them into wood or plastic.

1. Take a photo of your favorite three to six drawings

 

2. Clean them up in a photo editor

3. Upload the JPG files to the class "Art116 Proj 2 Vector Drawings FA23-1" Google Photos Album

4. Participate in the group critique
 
5. Convert your favorite image from the ones chosen in the critique, into a vector graphic and email it to the professor for laser etching.
 
Things to consider:
The image needs to be two colors only, black and white. The laser will etch the black lines into the material. The white is the material itself. Lasers burn the material. In the case of wood it leaves it looking dark and burnt. Plastic looks frosted.


What’s Due:
Six image files up in the class 'Art116 Proj 2 Vector Drawings FA23-1' in Google Photos saved as JPGs