Work and Teaching Featured in Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/zoom/html/2023047169.html
Critique in my Sensing and Control Class (DXARTS 470)
DXARTS (and my work and teaching) were featured in a long article by Seattle Times arts critic Michael Upchurch which appeared on the Sunday, March 23 issue of the Pacific Northwest Magazine.
On a purer visual-arts front, “Convex Mirror” by graduate student Robert Twomey created highly roboticized images earlier this year in a street-front window on Amazon’s campus in South Lake Union. The piece used a CNC (computer numerical controlled) plotter, a 180-degree circular fish-eye lens and some custom software to produce its result.
A gel ink pen was fixed in a housing that was suspended on two strings against an acid-free mat board. Computer-filtered input from the camera guided the pen’s bobbing progress across the mat board. The result was a study in duration and evanescence. The building across the street was drawn in sharp detail. Passing cars and pedestrians registered as mere wisps, if that.
http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/zoom/html/2023047170.html
Explaining Convex Mirror drawing
http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/zoom/html/2023047172.html
Abe King, a student in Robert Twomey’s Mechatronics class, sets up a class project with an inverted image of himself from a webcam projected on the wall.
http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/zoom/html/2023047173.html
Jake Garrison, a student in Twomey’s Mechatronics class, looks at a prototype for a 360-degree interactive camera made by students Tia Zweber and Calder Danz for a critique in the class. The camera burned out at the last minute, but was meant to be housed in the box made of two-way mirror material, and triggered by an accelerometer.