Creative Interactions (AC21011)

The aim of the Creative Interactions module is to explore the different ways that we can interact with computers. You will have opportunities to develop interactive interfaces for a variety of situations.

Project 1 - Snapchat Filter:

Our mouse interaction simply allows the users to put faces on the picture and then by pressing the button you can switch between the faces. We chose to do this because snapchat is known for having filters that alter your face so we wanted to keep to the similar themes of snapchat and create something fun and exciting for the user to play with.

Our keyboard interaction allows the user to press certain keys which will add different filters on the screen. We wanted to go above and beyond and add extra filters again to stick with the snapchat theme. We want our uses to be able to have the best experience when using the app so we have given them a variety of filters to choose from.

The posterize filter changes the image to display a limited amount of colours and tones and gives off a pop arte esque look, we chose this filter because it’s quirky and different and hasn’t been used in snapchat yet. This filter wasn’t too difficult to code either which made it both simple yet effective. Threshold changes the image to a sharp black and white image, we chose to incorporate this filter because it was easy to code yet created an effective filter.

Another filter we chose to add was erode, when selected this filter makes the image slowly fade away and eventually turn black, this filter was slightly harder to code but we wanted to add it to show a filter that moved in some way as opposed to just changing colour. Using this filter meant that once it had been selected, the user then had a black screen that they could draw on. Our final filter we had was gray, which is similar to threshold in the sense the filter lacks colour but it gives off an old fashioned vintage look. We chose this filter because it was easy to code as it was similar to the threshold filter but we liked how it contrasted to the regular expectations of snapchat. Snapchat is notorious for having vibrant and crazy filters so we wanted to do something that gave off a vintage vibe.

When you press the ‘C’ key it clears all of the filters and faces that the user has added. We chose to incorporate a ‘clear’ key because the screen can become overcrowded when the user has been playing with it for a while so we wanted a way for the user to reset the screen back to default so the user can start again.

One of the main challenges we faced when coding our snapchat filter was the button not working. The button is supposed allow the users to switch between the different faces and to begin with we could not get it to work.

Project 2 - 2D Image:

Create a 2D image using processing to instruct the drawings.

Project 3 - Installation: