{"id":10,"date":"2008-09-17T00:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-09-17T00:29:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T04:29:28","slug":"icm-adddrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"ICM Add\/Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally, my first <a title=\"ITP\" href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">ITP<\/a>-related post was an assignment to convey a message to our classmates with two dimensional shapes using <a title=\"Processing\" href=\"http:\/\/processing.org\" target=\"_blank\">Processing<\/a>.\u00a0 I ended up using three dimensional shapes, using the box() command and the <a title=\"OpenGL\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opengl\" target=\"_blank\">openGL<\/a> engine.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/applet\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cubic Grid\" src=\"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/images\/cubic.gif\" alt=\"ICM\" width=\"317\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My first ICM assignment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During this first week with Processing, I was amazed by its versatility, and essentially how little I had to code to get something tasty lookin&#8217;.\u00a0 I was especially looking forward to being mentored by Daniel Rozin, the artist behind the infamous Wooden Mirror in ITP foyer.\u00a0 But alas, the ease of ICM backfired.<\/p>\n<p>Looking through the syllabus, I realized that I could teach myself the material with the text and website&#8217;s reference section.\u00a0 Let me clarify.\u00a0 I would love to have fun building cool looking interactive graphics, and I especially appreciate the flexibility of the assignments, but I cannot rationalize spending the 4 credits on lessons I&#8217;d learned in Mrs. Walther&#8217;s AP Comp Sci class, OB what what!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ironic.\u00a0 I expected to drop Communications Lab &#8211; the requisite for the eTarded and web-illiterate, as well as soar in ICM.\u00a0 Instead I decided that I have no trouble investing time into projects, but self-promotion has never been a big priority to me.\u00a0 Times, they are a changin&#8217;&#8230; and there&#8217;s another important factor, my classmate and group partner, Karla, told me about the classes she opted into &#8211; &#8220;Materials and Building Strategies.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always wished I were a little more acquainted with all of the fun things in the Pearl Paint mega-store.\u00a0 Can-not-wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally, my first ITP-related post was an assignment to convey a message to our classmates with two dimensional shapes using Processing.\u00a0 I ended up using three dimensional shapes, using the box() command and the openGL engine. During this first week with Processing, I was amazed by its versatility, and essentially how little I had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}