Reflection

Generally speaking, the outcome matches our expectation. The effect was great since there are always people walking around, talking and background music from other projects on. However, there are still many areas to improve on. First, we need to be aware of the surroundings. Although it is nice to have constant background noises, we should've taken that into consideration to adjust the parameters in our program so that city lights are not always on as a result of the music from another video. Then, we should have put the two computers side by side to unify the sound input by taking the projection location into consideration. Also, we could make the detection in FFT Analyzer more precise. Aesthetically speaking, the black area in the background, though an obscure scratch of the buildings, does not make sense. For the next time, we would draw different color blocks to layer the buildings. Beyond improving the technical and artistic aspects of our final project, we’d also like to try something new. Exploring the connection between sound and vision is exciting and we’d like to push the exploration even further to create a project in which people could use their voice to generate distinct patterns or make a change to the original picture like what Not So Still Life does.