CSC 296: Media Computation, Spring 2008
Assignments
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Friday, February 1
- Read Chapter 1, and do your choice of 2 of the problems (starting on page 11).
Be prepared to tell the class what you found out.
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Wednesday, February 6
- Create an Alice script which will cause the tortoise to move in a hexagonal path.
You may start by loading the world
I:\20708_CSC296\public\Feb04\box turtle.a2w
and modifying the sequence of instructions in World.my first method.
Recall that we made a hexagon in DrJava with the following sequence:
World w = new World();
Turtle joe = new Turtle(w);
joe.forward(50);
joe.turn(60);
joe.forward(50);
joe.turn(60);
joe.forward(50);
joe.turn(60);
joe.forward(50);
joe.turn(60);
joe.forward(50);
joe.turn(60);
joe.forward(50);
joe.turn(60);
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Friday, February 8
- Do Chapter 2, Problems 10-15, and be prepared to discuss them in class.
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Monday, February 11
- Do Chapter 3, Problems 11, 13, and 19
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Monday, March 3
- Research paper: Summarize how the human visual and aural perception systems
affect how images and sounds are processed by the computer. Use the material
from the beginnings of Chapters 4 and 8 as a starting point. This paper should be
roughly 5 pages. A future assignment will build on it to investigate deeper into a
topic related to human perception and digitization (for example, color systems or
compression).
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Monday, March 17
- Create a collage (follow Problem 5.19 in the text) or a comic strip (as shown in
class). It should combine several images and use some of the image manipulation
techniques we have discussed (feel free to experiment with others as well), but it
is more important to show that you can use the computer to be creative than to
follow any specific rules.
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Friday, April 4
- Expanded perception paper: Revise your perception research paper.
- Fix any issues I marked on the first version
- Expand on some topic (roughly another 5 pages). Some suggestions:
- Explore more color systems
- Investigate image or sound compression (JPEG, MP3)
- Look at perception issues with movies
- Discuss things that digitized media doesn't do well yet
DePauw University,
Computer Science Department,
Spring 2008
Maintained by Brian Howard
(bhoward@depauw.edu).
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