Announcements

• Today is Earth Day ???
• Lunchtime workshop co-facilitated by Prof D: Emojis as Digital Language
• Today: Bystander Intervention to Stop Anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment 
• Physical Computing Kits: I’ll make a “claim” sheet and do a big giveaway in the 2 sessions of class. The kits are for small robots or LED projects, and their boards include Arduino, Lilypad, Jewelbots, etc.
• The last day to request a Credit / No Credit Option is May 7: https://hunter.cuny.edu/students/registration/register-for-classes/credit-no-credit/. This might be an appropriate option for those who haven’t turned in Projects 1, 2, and/or 3.
• If you sent me a Unity build/project and NOT a screen recording, please be prepared to share your screen.

Agenda

• 3:10 
  • Project 4 Presentations
  • If there’s time: Dream Machine case study
• 4:50 Break 
• 5:00 
  • Part III of Semiology of Graphics
  • Color Discussion
    • Kouwer, B. J. (2013). Colors and their character: A psychological study. Springer Science & Business Media.
    • Stoughton, C. M., & Conway, B. R. (2008). Neural basis for unique hues. Current Biology, 18(16), R698-R699.

Assignments

• Technical Stuff: 
  • Project 4 is due! Please submit ASAP if you haven’t already.
  • Next week, we will wrap up the Physics Playground and experiment with this Solar System VR tutorial. Please review the Solar System tutorial and files before class.
• Conceptual Stuff
  • Envisioning Information, Chapter 5: Color and Information.

Announcements: Extra Credit

• Attend the Emojis as Digital Language workshop and write 3+ paragraphs for EC.
• A useful Unity asset management tutorial: Creating LODs (levels of detail) in Maya for Unity. Give it a try and write 3+ paragraphs for EC.
• Check the Projects + Extra Credit page for more EC options. If any of your projects are late, I strongly encourage you to submit extra credit work.