Author Archives: Safinah Ali

Safinah Ali

07 Apr 2016

For my final project I want to make an interactive game around the concept of privilege.

I want to focus on the lack of realization of privilege: The more we have it, the less we see it. I am inspired …

Safinah Ali

07 Apr 2016

Growing album is a video of 11k album covers growing in saturation and complexity. The idea is to show a ‘growth pattern’ of sorts in album cover design.

The image visualization project was a series of trials and errors for

Safinah Ali

28 Mar 2016

Constellations is an interactive application that lets you join stars and create constellations.

My fascination with stargazing made me want to attempt an application with the Star Map. In an attempt to build something interactive, I made twinkling stars that …

Safinah Ali

24 Mar 2016

My image data set is fingerprints (8000 images). I have them tagged by the type of fingerprint (loop) and the gender of the person.

Source of data: http://www.nist.gov/srd/nistsd4.cfm

I was initially hoping to make portraits out of this data. I …

Safinah Ali

17 Feb 2016

For my visualization (maps) project, I am thinking of using some form of 3D prototyping. A couple of datas I was interested in visualizing were:
Brain map for a decision process, different levels of decision making.
Visualizing poetry and the …

Safinah Ali

17 Feb 2016

Maze letter: A program that draws mazes of alphabets that the users enters.

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I made maze drawings for the English alphabets and used to them to draw a connected maze. The alphabets connect to form one big horizontal maze.

Maze

Safinah Ali

16 Feb 2016

Have you seen digital artists draw on their computers? They have one hand on their mouse, the other stretched between their keyboard and their pen-tablet. What if we use one tool that needs just one-handed use to perform all the …

Safinah Ali

16 Feb 2016

Out of the many outstanding projects by my peers, one I particularly enjoyed was the Post Human twitter-bot by Zac.  I liked this project because it was super interesting to see body parts dissected. The media file posted were …