For my final project, I wanted to generate captions for images that didn’t just describe what was in the image, but put in the form of a story. A successful caption would be one which the viewer could relate to …
Author Archives: Ajayan Subramanian
Ajayan – Final Project Overview and Update
For my final project I would like to create a personal diary.
Each diary will have an image, the text ‘Dear Diary’, and a generated story. The images will be picked at random from a Flickr image collection (>50000 images). …
Generating stories from Japanese Woodblock Prints
I worked with the collection of Japanese woodblock prints on Ukiyo-e. I scraped images from individual galleries listed on this website- the Museum of Fine Arts, British Museum, and the Edo Tokyo Museum, to name a few. The generic …
Ajayan-project3-interim
The dataset I’ve chosen is Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e). The images from this dataset consist of landscapes, actors, close-ups of people, and scenes from history. I am most interested by the landscapes and the close-ups with interesting facial expressions. Some …
Ajayan Subramanian
16 Feb 2016
My project is to complicate the act of drawing by pen. The user is presented with the outline of a cat and is required to trace it using using the Cintiq tablet and its associated pen. I plotted the users’ …
Ajayan Subramanian
02 Feb 2016
I’m excited by the Virtual Reality project ‘Tiltbrush’, which enables you to draw/sketch with controllers. Here is a video of its use by the Disney artist Glen Keane.
I was wowed by the playfulness, energy and wonder with which Glen …
Appreciation of Peer’s Work
I really liked Irene’s work, which makes a user empathize with the victim’s circumstances, by getting a glimpse of the location of the incident. Usually when such data is presented to the user, it is accompanied by biasing text, but …
Ajayan-TwitterBot
My twitter bot is @IrishDrinkinBot and its URL is https://twitter.com/IrishDrinkinBot. It creates an Irish Drinking Song based on text that it has been mentioned. (@ed). Here is a link to a sample song from the show Whose Line Is It …
Ajayan-maps
I picked the gun deaths in 2013 data set. I really liked the @censusAmericans twitter bot. I intended to tell a story about the individual deaths.
For the plotting on a map, I used Leaflets, along with the latlong data …
Ajayan-ofxaddons
My project does a mashup of the user’s face with Dj Khaled memes. It uses ofxFaceTracker and ofxGifEncoder.
I was excited by the idea of recognizing facial poses and get users to perform them, only to be mocked by Dj …