CPSC 120: Principles of Computing
Using Multimedia Design
(Spring 2009)
Using Multimedia Design
(Spring 2009)
Some Examples
Here are some examples of the kinds of things students will write programs to do. Note: all of the transformations shown below were done by writing short programs in Python (and not via a program such as Adobe Photoshop).Pictures
| Simple transformations on a picture (of me): | ||
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Mirrored (side-to-side) -----> |  |
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| Gray scaled -----> |  |
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| Posterized -----> |  |
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| Posterized in B/W -----> |  |
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| Line edged -----> |  |
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| Color segmented -----> (like an Andy Warhol picture) |
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| Collage -----> (note: text is written with smaller picture of me) |
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| Putting me on the moon: | ||
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| Blending two pictures together (of my dogs): | ||
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Sounds
| Simple transformations on a audio sound ("this is a test"): | ||
 Original WAV file |
Backwards -----> |
Transformed WAV file |
Mirrored -----> |
Transformed WAV file |
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Echoed -----> |
Transformed WAV file |
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Reduced frequency -----> (kidnapper sound effect) |
Transformed WAV file |
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Increased frequency -----> (chipmunk sound effect) |
Transformed WAV file |
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| Blending two sounds together (vocal "aah" + bassoon): | ||
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Original vocal WAV file |
Blended -----> |
Transformed WAV file |
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Original bassoon WAV file |
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| Splicing sounds (some wacky modifications to Lincoln's Gettysburg speech): | ||
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Original Gettysburg WAV file |
Spliced -----> |
Transformed WAV file |
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Original rabbit WAV file (will be spliced in) |
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Original pig WAV file (will be spliced in) |
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Original horse WAV file (will be spliced in) |
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| Some new sounds created using mathematical functions: | ||
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Sine wave WAV file |
Square wave WAV file |
Triangle wave WAV file |
Movies
| Creating movies from scratch: | ||
| Simple animation of a bouncing ball, sound track created from bouncing noise |
Bouncing ball MPEG-4 file |
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| Creating movies from still frames: | |||
Original beach picture |
Create sunset effect, soundtrack set to beach sound (looped) | -----> |
Sunset MPEG-4 file |
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Foreground of me
Original moon picture |
Create "Star Trek" beaming effect (using chromakey), set beaming sound as soundtrack | -----> |
Beaming MPEG-4 file |
| Transform existing movies: | |||
Original Fenway MPEG-4 file |
Added randomly-colored text and notes to video, soundtrack unchanged | -----> |
Transformed Fenway MPEG-4 file |
Original Leaves Falling MPEG-4 file |
Video posterized, soundtrack created by blending Chopin's "Raindrops" with sound of leaves rustling (looped) | -----> |
Transformed Leaves Falling MPEG-4 file |
Original Zoe MPEG-4 file |
Video line edged, Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" blended into original soundtrack | -----> |
Transformed Zoe MPEG-4 file |
Original Marc Walking MPEG-4 file
Original background picture of moon |
Extracted foreground from original video (using chromakey) and put in front of moon picture, sound track unchanged | -----> |
Transformed Marc Walking MPEG-4 file |