Category BSc1

Research I began this week by reading a chapter on 3D graphics. It helped me to understand how essential materials are to objects. Materials fully control the appearance of objects in the scene using shaders and properties. Whilst using Unity…

Research This week’s reading was a chapter on scripts in Unity that are written in C#. C# is a language that I am very familiar with so I could easily understand this chapter. A lot of this chapter was on…

Research I began this week by reading Part 1: Unity Fundamentals in Hardman, C. (2023), Game Programming with Unity and C#: A Complete Beginner’s Guide. This section offered a clear and accessible introduction to the Unity development environment, which was especially helpful…

Workshop In the workshops this week I was finishing off the documentation and research side of my work. Before I began my project, I had researched artist that use grids in their work for some inspiration. This week I wrote…

This week, instead of workshops and lectures, we had a weeklong project in Bank Plain. The project consisted of us making interactive data visuals using different sets of environmental data. My group were working with NASA global temperature data and…

Lecture The lecture this week was from a company called Collusion. They spoke to us about the work they have done in Kings Lynn and how they can use computing to put on events for the public. They showed us…

Lecture The lecture this week was given by printmaker and programmer, Licia He. I had already come across He’s work at A-level when trying to combine computing into my art. Similarly to me Licia spoke to us about how she…

Research: On Monday, before my workshops, I decided to write up my exercise 1 notes into an actual document. I began by looking at my notes and other sources of research I had gathered. I wrote up my introduction, explanation,…

Workshops + Research In the workshops this week, we got on with the new task independently in a supportive workshop. On the Tuesday, I spent the morning working on the weather API task coding and the afternoon on exercise 1…

Workshops In this week’s workshops we began by creating a random dog generator website to introduce us to APIs. This allowed us to see how we can use online databases in our work instead of adding it all ourselves. I…