Brett Peterson

Category: ITP

  • Printing Code: Typography

    This assignment was difficult for me. Here’s the brief: This week you’re going to design a word. Pick a word and make a typeface around it. The important thing is that you draw the letters using some kind of rule-based logic. Look at the examples I showed in class, and try to come up with…

  • Printing Code – Color Identity

    Our assignment was to use a color scheme (analogous, monochromatic, complementary, etc) to create an image that represents us. The other requirement was that there’s an element of randomness so every time the code runs, the output is different. I decided on a blue-hued monochromatic color scheme with a complementary yellow color to represent myself.…

  • Parts list for succulent pots

    So I was tasked with creating a parts list for my yet to be completed succulent pots. Doing this really helped me think about the final, shipping project and what I will need to package it up and sell it. I don’t know the exact quantities of the materials yet, but as I find out,…

  • Off The Shelf / One Store

    Our assignment was to go to a store (any store) and buy supplies to make something (anything) using at least 5 parts with SKUs. There were a couple other rules like not cutting or breaking any piece and only taking things apart by disassembly. I went to Ikea and came home with this: I was…

  • LETHE – Video and Sound Final

    So here’s a post that I guess I never got around to putting up – my team’s video and sound final from the first half of fall semester! That seems like such a long time ago…. We decided that we wanted to do a film noir-styled short film. When we starting throwing around plot ideas…

  • openFrameworks + openCV = Private Party!

    Private Party – an openFrameworks experiment from brett peterson on Vimeo.   Experiment using openFrameworks and openCV for Spatial Media spring 2013. A party is starting and you’re the only one invited. The camera is used to detect when someone enters the frame and throws a private party for 1. You get a hat and…

  • 8 Ties: Interactive Exhibit Research

    For Spatial Media we were asked to find a temporary interactive exhibit that was created for an event and critique it. I had a tough time finding examples of temporary exhibits, but eventually I came across “8 ties” for Hermès. It was created for an event in Milan and has now traveled to a few…

  • DigiFab Research: SkecthUp

    What is SketchUp? SketchUp is a 3d modeling program that became popular while it was owned by Google. It is often used for architecture and interior design, though it can also be used for smaller product design as well. History SketchUp was first created by Last Software and released in 2000. I first heard about it…

  • Spacebrew Constellations

    For our second assignment, we needed to port an existing project over to using spacebrew. Last semester in ICM, I made a hand-tracking app that you could use to draw constellations. It was a bit hacked together using oscP5 to send the kinect data to the rendering sketch. So I hooked them together using spacebrew instead.…

  • First 2d drawing in Vectorworks

    In my Design for Digital Fabrication class we’re starting out with 2d vector drawings. I’ve used Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape for vector drawings in the past, but I’m new to Vectorworks. I’ve already found some very useful functions missing in other programs like the ability to auto-measure and label parts. So nice! We were asked…

  • Hello (Spacebrew) World!

    Last night I got started using Spacebrew. It was actually really nice to use once I got everything setup and configured. I ran my own node server and used the example processing sketches to change the greyscale background of one sketch using a slider from another: I then spent a good bit of time trying…

  • What if … I finally documented my creative coding work from last semester

    I’ve been enjoying a very long and fun break since the ITP show (more on that later) but now I’m aboutto start another semester! I can’t wait to start working on some new projects, but I still haven’t shown some of my work from my previous semester. First up: Introduction to Computational Media, or my…