friday_Lecture
August 31, 2007 at 1:00 pm | In Classes | Leave a CommentLast of the DECO1200 lectures.. hmm
Links to the PDFs (for future references):
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-01.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-02.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-03.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-04.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-05.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-06.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-08.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-09.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-10.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-11.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Slides-12.pdf
- http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~rob/teaching/2007/DECO1200/DECO1200-Project.pdf
to_Do
August 29, 2007 at 11:55 pm | In DECO, Rant, Website, iPimp | Leave a Commentuhm.. okay
In website:
deco1200/deco2102 minisite 1 doc
add ppt/pdf iPimp presentation
design for prototype
design of overall css/layout
add photo to “about” page
add content to “about” page
do banner ~ butterfly tattoo design
add more 3d maya tutorials/files
add the 3d maya rendered images
deco1005 assignment 1 upload to separate pages
maybe add a flash splash page
minisite_1
August 29, 2007 at 11:48 pm | In DECO, Prototype1, Rant, Website | 1 CommentOkay.. I’ve had my link to my blog there for ages..
Yesterday and today, I’ve been uploading all my DECO1008 3D Maya tutorial online. Spent ages trying to do the layout (and I just realized, my 13.3″ screen doesnt display the layout as well as a larger display would. At least my 15″ desktop screen can fit it in without it looking weird.
Check it out here: http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~jtan2093/deco1008/a1
What I did was, use the <div id=”…”> to separate the original image and the modelled image, and fit into one line but 2 columns. So then, I had to modify the css and the xhtml code (since I haven’t done this before, and like.. did alot of testing). I figured out what I need, which is just to state the margin to the left, and how many pixels it was from the left >< (Thanks to Kristian’s nice website layout).
But ohhhh Eileen has the cutest Flash on her website! its like.. so adorable.
Omg, yes, the point is, I’m worried about the due date for the minisite, is it tomorrow? (haha actually, more like today) or on Apec? And the word “prototype” still bugs me.. It’s just the documentation I haven’t put up.. Lucky I had a speech, so I can derive what I’ve got on there (and from my blog) to post the report.. I still don’t know why I worry (okay, nvm me ranting)..
So.. hmm
Yea.. I’m going to sleep. lol
iphone_Unlocked
August 28, 2007 at 12:19 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Commentnot the first time, but at least this is from a 17-year-old kid ;p
“NJ Teen Unlocks IPhone From AT&T Network”
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/24/financial/f081724D48.DTL&tsp=1
Hotz himself spent about 500 hours on the project since the iPhone went on sale. On Thursday, he put the unlocked iPhone up for sale on eBay, where the high bid was at $12,600 late Friday. The model, with 4 gigabytes of memory, sells for $499 new.
privacy_Dead
August 27, 2007 at 11:10 pm | In Rant, Research, iPimp | Leave a CommentOkay, let’s imagine a world where its peaceful *peace-sign*, and nobody gets insulted, and all is nice and easy.. Then there’s only the privacy issue involved of allowing people to take photos of each other. So.. *cough* damn there’s alot of issues in here to address.. But okay, I should start Somewhere..
So.. googling “privacy, photo, people” I found some interesting articles:
“Google’s Street View and Privacy” http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/googles-street-view-and-privacy.html
“Street View only features imagery taken on public property. This imagery is no different from what any person can readily capture or see walking down the street.” Google also lets you remove inappropriate images, images that infringe on your privacy or present personal security concerns: just click on the help link and flag the current image.
All-seeing Google Street View prompts privacy fears http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1870995.ece

“The photographs… have prompted unease in part because there is no apparent attempt to blur people’s faces or number plates or obscure what is happening inside private properties along the route taken by the car-mounted cameras.
Privacy law in both the US and the UK broadly allows the publication of photographs in public places.
People could contest under England’s privacy laws would be those of children and those that showed intimate acts in private places, such as sunbathing naked in one’s garden.”
Blah blah blah
Nobody questions the privacy if a photo of the Sydney Opera House is posted up with people standing in front of it and uploaded to flicker.. They are viewable in public ><
Nobody raises a question when the paparazzi photographs of the hollywood celebrities and publishs it on the media. I’m sure You’ve all bought magazines before with such images in them, and probably at times, just to look at these infringment of privacy photos. Yet you criticise things like this? plz
At least here’s an article that supports me ;p
“The web is built on a lack of privacy” http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1850998.ece
”If asked, most people will say that they’re concerned about protecting their privacy and their personal information, but their behaviour generally suggests otherwise. For starters, many people post all kinds of information about themselves on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, apparently oblivious to the fact that those goofy drunken party pics are not going to be so amusing to a potential employer who comes across them in a Google search.
Yet even people who are much more savvy and concerned often don’t want to make the sacrifices that privacy protection involves. “
A Comment in the site ^:
McNealy’s right and anyone who argues for privacy is standing in an empty barn long after the last horse is gone. That barn door’s not just standing open it got torn off years ago by various commercial and institutional special interests and they have actually laid it flat on some sawhorses to make it easier to eat our lunch.
We don’t need privacy – we need anonymity. The Internet is not the problem – it’s the solution. There’s no need anyone we do business with to know anything about us unless we choose to sell them the data.
Here’s something straight to the point:
Scott McNealy, the colourful founder of Sun Microsystems, has been saying for years now in response to privacy issues: “You have no privacy. Get over it.”
web_Layout
August 27, 2007 at 8:10 pm | In DECO, Website | Leave a Commenthmm, I just remembered.. I still don’t get the <span> in the <divs> (so I guess I should look it up)
Anyways, I did a little more css on my website in the last few days, un-noticeable really since all I did was (painstakingly) editted my 9 index.htmls from html to Xhtml with no errors. I editted it again today, and haven’t checked it yet (doing it now.. @ http://validator.w3.org/). It’s too hard to work directly from the unix drive (and via smftp) so copying and pasting to test is irritating me.
W00T! “This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!” (no I am not attempting strict).. But all I did was test my homepage >< Opps 36 errors on a page.. Then again, I’ve been focusing more on the
.style_Name {
attribute : value ;
}
And completely forgot about the ending tags lol
I changed the background from a swarovski star and moon crystal pendant pictures I took and editted in photos, with nice blue theme.. to uhm.. this black and white tattoo design I did last semester (because my boyfriend said that it was too empty for him- he’s got a 17″ screen, and I only accomodated those with a 1024 x 768 pixel range). I’m planning on adding a banner with the image on the other side of the tshirt (the one with the butterfly). But now, bare with me.. (it does look too plain)
*continues editting code*
friday_Presentation
August 25, 2007 at 8:22 am | In Classes, DECO, Presentation, iPhone, iPimp | Leave a CommentHere’s my speech:
iPimp DECO1200 Presentation 1 Before I start, is anyone younger than 18 here? iPimp What I propose is simply a pimping game. A game where it’s challenging what is possible – challenging what is lawful, moral and right. It’s an interactive game providing maximum amusement and enjoyment with competitive entertainment and bonus prizes. *click* Basically, all you do is recruit people to earn money, power and glory. These people you ‘recruit’ are called your whores. Gentlemen you are the pimps, and ladies you are the madams. Pimps and madams use the camera function to take a photo of the target, and spam everyone around them via Bluetooth with a message saying that they ‘are your bitches now’. In order for them to be free, they would have to join the game, and choose to remain loyal (and try to gang up on you with the rest of your whores) or become a cop (of course there’s always a ‘crooked’ cop). Here I added what a potential user wanted – the sides of good and evil. Also, those religious, moral, or whomever opposes the game can join and be the good cops, and try to turn everyone else who is not on their side into the jail. So what use is having recruits? They must bring you profit where you can further gain money and of course power. In the meantime, you can utilize your pimp status to make them pose for you and you can add outfits and bling to their new photos. You can game out on the streets, at parties and clubs, and then compete against each other, or in communities (otherwise known as gangs). If you want, you can also check out a map connected with Google, to display who’s owning the block. As for the being the top with the most whores and money, we will reward the best player with his or her very own outfit to match their rank. iPimp is directed for an adult market of 18+. But in reality we all know a gaming experience starts earlier (roughly 13). The user would want to play a game which they believe would deliver them an advantage. The user group would be more appealing to the male audience, gamers (who doesn’t mind annoying people with spam), people with a high priority in their social life, those who want a little personal gain in their stash (as we like being greedy). Personally, all I would like in this game is just to have a little fun and mess around with photos. I did a quick online questionnaire using my raw, initial proposal. I realized that various users want different things from the system, such as one wanted for a good game, a clever scoring system. Another person wanted facial recognition software, to track down information of the recruits. Another, a rating system for the photos taken, and definitely obtaining revenue from it. Ultimately, I can only satisfy some people, not all. To test my idea, I will develop a storyboard first of the elements involved in the game, and perhaps find alternative ideas within it. Then I set out to question, survey, and converse with the users with a visual prototype (like using index cards) and involve the users further into the design process. *click* A guy commented that ‘in the society we live in such reckless game will not be taken in because it’s about whores and pimps. Obviously family members (parents especially) would avoid getting their children involve. It’s like in an education system, it’s teaching a child how to be a pimp.’ This leads to my first question, “how would I make this game positive in a way to be allowed in mainstream society?”. Considering the unethical nature of this game, maybe now it would be readily accepted by some, but be more than disapproving to the rest. Because from what I can see now, I have most of the male audience’s attention, but not the females. So my second question is, “what incentives can I have to involve more of the female audience?” From the experience I have gained in online games where males are the majority of the population, it seems that females are more confronted by the lack of their same-sex peers, so they steer away from the alien world (or they are just plainly not interested in games). In a game like this, “would you want to be anonymous or proud of your achievements?” Some people like boasting and showing off, whilst others would want to perhaps want to be worshipped and known as the ‘mysterious X’? This is also for protecting your pimp identity, or fear of being sabotaged because you’re the big boss. Futura things I need to do is to do more research in the technical department of how I’m going to work this out if some problems; like a limited Bluetooth range, or very slow internet access would hinder the game’s capabilities. Or I could feign ignorance and say this game is to be developed in a few years time. Perhaps it’s hard for you to choose between your desires and your upright principles. But right now, *camera* you’ve all been whored!
presentation_One
August 24, 2007 at 3:16 pm | In Classes, DECO, Presentation, Rant, iPimp | Leave a CommentHaha well.. so much for being just a game for ‘fun’.
Alot of controversy with this application..
Nathan saying “where do you come up with these ideas?” well uhm..
Someone said “isn’t it degrading for women?” well, I never said the whores must be women did I?
To me, iPimp isn’t about the idea of ’sex’, its just the $$ and the “sexiness” but not sex sex.. Uh.. get what I mean? hmm
pimpin_Hos
August 22, 2007 at 7:21 pm | In Prototype1, Rant, Research, iPhone, iPimp | Leave a CommentHaha omg I cannot believe I’m actually doing an application for this.. rofl So.. what is this: I don’t supposed many would want to read about ‘pimp’ (so check out the best resource! wiki! *cough* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimp *cough*) This ’research’ is getting.. weirder hum.. lol Other very important links (for me to note) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_Girl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prostitution Blah blah Okay, for the past 4 hours, I’ve been asking people on msn (male, 18-20s) about what they think about the iPimp game. I just sent them information on my initial idea.
Izzac… says:
LOL!!! i like it i think it works
»ÑàÜT¡|ÀTÔR« ® - says:
so if you get your pic taken, your whored?and the only way to be unwhored is to pass on the “whore” status to someone else is to get their pic taken?
i think that, if youve been whored, you can then recriut other “whores” and then if you have enoug, you can break away from your pimp and become your own
You always have someone higher above you
heavy legs mcgee says:
sounds like a good idea though
completely different interface
it is actually really clever
havent heard of anything like it
sort of like nintendo ds controller
gps is one way communication
the satellites do not know where you are
you would have to send that info over 3g
or equivalent
I think any game to get people off their ass is a good one
and ps…try and think of an equally clever scoring system
a good game deserves a good scoring system
reward high scored
like with a pimp hat or something
im thinkin of putting more into the photo/software?
like once you take the photo, you can add images on top
like clothing, hats, shoes, money, bling blah
yeh well facial recognition software is pretty good
yeh well make the extra images have to be earned/bought
with pimp points
with skype you can add a hat on your head and it tracks where your head is
so theoretically you could have a video profile pic
with all the moving bling etc
Phong says:
lol i tihnk thats an invasion of privacy
Dipak says:
wowwww i m wondering , why this game is not in real
i m desperate to play
u can use something like RATE ME
the image can be rated by audience
in particular time frame
most rated image can get some reward
any idea on how i can create ———– can’t comment without proper understanding, ( but java is good for mobile applications )
from reading what do u understand——– it makes first impression as adult game
would u play it?———— i can’t wait to play
what other target audience———— i guess age gropu 13 to 40
complaints?———– not right now, but sure , heaps later on
*help Ro-J*龍 @ Beijing…♪ says:
wow
then i guess it’s fine then!
how do you calculate the money if someone wants to do something for the person instead of “paying” them money?
i guess you’ll have to sign up to join the game, you have to recruit another person then you can remove the debt?
so like…making the team
but would those who have removed the debt still able to get “whored”?
so…if you’ve been recruited by a person, you won’t get whored again?
not by the same person
i guess you can be recruited by another
then how do you determain which side you’re on if you’ve been recruited by multiple sides?
say you’ve been recruited by one side~ like you said here “by recruiting other people to take their place (or gang up on you)” and the “leader” have been tracked down, can they still make put you at their place?
like…substitude?
so will the substitude be on both sides if this is the case
i can have like a cop vs pimp thing
“In the meantime, you can ‘blackmail’ them to pose for you or whatever. ” i don’t quite get this
because they are your whores, they must ’satisfy’ you, and you can make them pose in positions, and you get to take photos
but those whores would get to pose for multiple people won’t they? since they’re always been tracked or something
no, a whore can only have 1 pimp
but some questions only arise when this is put into action
like…perhaps connection problems, people can’t be found etc.
ya connection is a big thing
im just gonna assume in 10 years time, everyone has an iphone, either bluetooth is really really good, that internet is all fast speed, 3g is up and running, and ya [웨이샹♡3][-2698daystill] dissertation… says:
1) the game will not work
and 2) u cud fail this presentation
reasons
well in the society we live in such reckless game will not be taken in
cuz its about whores and pimps
obviously family members (parents especially) wud avoid getting their children involve
in the education system its like teaching a child how to be a pimp
even though its only a game
oh and besides the eithical and all those issues
there is also the issue of how many ppl wud actually turn their bluetooth on
or what ever connection ur planning to use
not to mention how many ppl are willing to learn how to use it?
there is a learning curve to everything
ive researched that when a game has a specific amount of level of learning curve*
the game play wud either drop early or late
simple words wud be the person playing the game wud get bored of it really
easy cuz they dont know how to play the game
choosing_Ideas
August 17, 2007 at 9:32 pm | In Classes | Leave a CommentRob and I had a chat about the ideas..
To cut out the whole convo, the result was to choose my 1st idea – the iPimp.
So.. have to think about it more..
I’ve been more focused on doing the website.
Converting everything to XHTML transitional compatable and validating.. *cough*
I’ll get there.. should be done tonight
I saw Kristian’s website, he used a banner (which I forgotten to put in..) and layout with 2 columns (so have to research into the divs).
Anyways.. life is good.
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