(2/24/2017) Blog 3: Processing tutorial

(2/24/2017) Blog 3: Processing tutorial

Zongxi Huang

This week, we watched the Processing computer programming tutorial and we came up with ways to use this program in our project which was meant to create an immersive experience for maps and to allow more interaction between the people and holographic map. During the two period we had this week, we tried to come up with a solution to the design challenges we faced. Initially, we had decided to start building the holographic device, but after much consideration, we decided instead to choose a program we will use for our project and learn how to use it first. We changed our mind about the building process because the device was only a matter of building it, as it has already been tested and used in recent times. Moreover, finding the right program to implement it in our project was far more important and pressing than the construction of the hologram device. Hence, we decided to give more priority to the former. There were several choice that were presented to us and we decided to use the Hello Processing program for our project. We spent 1 period to watch all of the tutorials introducing the program and I took some notes about some information that I found more important than others. During this week of information gathering and learning, I did run into some issues. For instance, I was puzzled by the method I should use to create an holographic picture for our device. Next week, we are going to hopefully start the programming and we hope we will be able to find a solution to the issue of splitting the image into 4 parts