ArtCreate

HTML, CSS, and site making

2009-10-04T06:06:00.000-07:00

For the Course Web Technology, every student has to make his or hers own website.

Not only to learn HTML and CSS, but also to discover the different possibilities of different combinations of languages.

I made this:
http://home.student.utwente.nl/a.vanandel/#
you might think, well Arthur, thats pretty friggin nice what you did there!

You would be wrong.

I stole the CSS template! (well technically it was a free template but still)
Why? because i've spent this morning fiddling about in HTML, not achieving anything! I decided i would learn better if i could see a PreFab Website.
I was right, i learned alot! For example: never did i knew a web page could refer to a style.css file! I think i found a perfect way to learn HTML and CSS. (besides reading tutorials of course)

Enjoy my webpage! and please be sure to click on the worst page ever links on the right! (turn your volume down a notch tough, you don't want to get scared!)

Processing Script

2009-10-04T05:52:00.001-07:00

For Programming for Creative Technology , we have to program an "animal" in Processing.
My code for 2 boxes and 2 lines is:

int x;
void setup() {
size (200, 200);

PImage boom;
boom = loadImage ("tree.jpg");
background (boom);
}
void draw() {
background (0);
ellipseMode (CENTER);
rectMode (CENTER);
rect(100, 100, 80, 60);
rect(45, 60, 40, 30);
fill(0);
rect(50, 50, 4, 4);
stroke(255);
x = mouseX;
line(70,130,x-30,180);
line(130,130,x+30,180);
line(0,180,200,180);
}

The big day of presentations

2009-09-23T11:06:00.001-07:00

Yesterday the big day was there....

Presentations!

the projects constructed in the course We Create Identity finally came together in an early

tuesday morning, only to be presented a couple of hours later.

The presentations (20 second pitch given by everyone individually, and a longer presentation

from Bram) went really well, and CreaTe was finally put on the map, even for the critics. The projects where working, and the movie i worked on with Reinout Epke and Ineke Visser is something to be proud of, although it could be a lot better if we had the time.

I am really proud of my fellow students, as each and every project actually worked, and

sometimes was better then the product from conventional sources! ( The multitouch table from our Create students worked better then the factory-built one)

I think we can learn a lot from this day and we should be proud. BUT! we should always strive to be bigger and better!

fotos:

Create with Garrysmod

2009-09-07T12:45:00.000-07:00

Gmod, is a sandbox game, a modification on the popular first person shooter Half life 2. The game gives you a menu with objects to spawn in the environment, so you can play with them! Now why is this important for create? Because today, i invented a new game, within a game, with my good friend Pim Jager, student at EL at the UTwente. Pim had the idea to spawn a "playing field"an area surrounded by fences, where we could play volleyball, after throwing some closets and washing machines around, we finally spawned a ball, and started playing. But when we overshot the fences for the 1000st time, i decided to build higher fences, with 2 fences on the sides. This resulted however in a new game, the game was not about just firing away anymore, now, you could fire the ball via the fences, so it would bounce in another direction, thus adding more strategy to the game. after spawning a "RT camera" ( a camera placed above the field that any player can see) the volleyball game was complete! below are some pictures.

Introduction on Computer Science

2009-09-03T07:18:00.001-07:00

Yesterday and today we worked at a new subject; Computer Science. on the 2nd of september we discovered the internet at the hand of the movie "Maus" which explained the internetspeedways, routers and modems. We also made an taxonomy coverflow example.

Today we discovered Protocols at the hand of "Techno-Drama" wich was very informative. 2 persons played an ATM and a bank, and suggestions had to be made on the transfers that where occuring. Very informative. This is a lesson-type we will continue in the future.

Create your identity

2009-09-01T11:14:00.001-07:00

Create a blog, that's the assignment i'm doing now. Yesterday started my Creative Technology course at the UTwente, and the first assignment is;
Make a blog about yourself, The study, and what you want from it.
Make it a portfolio of personal work, and work created in Creative Technology!

lets make a start: yesterday, 30 august. The course started with a short introduction by drawing yourself and everyone in the group. Most of the students (including myself) drew a person with various attributes belonging to the person who drew them.
This aided the introduction process greatly, because everyone was kind enough to show a great open-ness to the studentgroup and our future products and projects.

Today 31st of august:
today we had a reproduction of yesterday, assignments were made more clear however, and the introductionprocess from yesterday showed itself in a great atmosphere, wich aided the presentations about yourself and your expectations from CreaTe in speediness (yes i know, not very good english, but hey, what the heck!) everyone is supposed to make a blog or put at least some sort of portfolio online.
I will post my drawings later,but for now i will link to my deviantart gallery in the left menu bar.