Papers by Rebecca Ruige Xu
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Dépaysement means a change of scenery, a unique word in French that captures emotions shared by t... more Dépaysement means a change of scenery, a unique word in French that captures emotions shared by travelers. The pandemic has changed the entire globe and caused such feelings in many of us. With this project, we created a series of monotypes based on the visual music When Leaving Becomes Arriving we produced before.
Generating freehand style drawings with SVG
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2007
Vector graphics are often known for their clean edges, flat colors, and even sterility. In this p... more Vector graphics are often known for their clean edges, flat colors, and even sterility. In this project we attempt to add nuance-rich and personal looks to them using freehand style drawings generated as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) by Python programming language. The algorithms ...
Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games, 2016
Artistic data visualization is visualization of data done by artists with the intent of expressin... more Artistic data visualization is visualization of data done by artists with the intent of expressing a point of view.
Fecal pellets can serve as a noninvasive source of DNA for identifying the distribution of indivi... more Fecal pellets can serve as a noninvasive source of DNA for identifying the distribution of individual animals when conducting population estimates. The quality of fecal DNA, however, can be degraded by wet or warm environmental conditions. We tested the effect of time of pellet collection (mid-March-mid-June) and temperature on the success of genotyping microsatellite loci in moose Alces alces by using DNA extracted from moose fecal pellets collected from north central British Columbia, Canada. Using the number of microsatellite loci genotyped as a measure of genotyping success clearly indicated that fecal pellets collected in March and April contained DNA that yielded high-confidence genotypes, whereas those collected in May and June did not. Pellets collected in March and April were more likely to be collected in cooler (often subzero) temperatures than those collected in May and June. Pellets collected later in the year were also more likely to be exposed to rain and increased solar radiation, all of which are likely to contribute to degradation of fecal DNA. Our findings suggest that pellets collected in late winter in the Northern Hemisphere have sufficient DNA to permit genotyping of moose.
Generating freehand style drawings with SVG
Vector graphics are often known for their clean edges, flat colors, and even sterility. In this p... more Vector graphics are often known for their clean edges, flat colors, and even sterility. In this project we attempt to add nuance-rich and personal looks to them using freehand style drawings generated as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) by Python programming language. The algorithms are developed based on the findings of studying the hand drawing process in art creation. Methods of defining line stroke segments as drawing characteristics using formal grammar are explored, and stochastic turtle graphic interpretation is implemented.
Out of statistics
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery on - SIGGRAPH '09, 2009
With an aesthetic approach, Out of Statistics: Beyond Legal produces a series of abstract drawing... more With an aesthetic approach, Out of Statistics: Beyond Legal produces a series of abstract drawings based on US crime statistics as archival-ink digital prints on rice paper. Each image represents the crime status in one of the states, with the seven most significant crime-conviction statistics of each state embedded.
Visualizing Federal Spending
Leonardo, 2013
ABSTRACT In this project we explore an aesthetics-oriented approach to visualizing federal spendi... more ABSTRACT In this project we explore an aesthetics-oriented approach to visualizing federal spending in the United States as 3D compositions in a photorealistic style. Using procedural modeling with Python programming and Maya API, an organic flow of intermingled geometrical units is formed to represent the profile of federal spending for each state, loosely resembling the idea of money flow. The total amount of spending is scaled to a per capita basis to make different states comparable, while the overall surface area or volume occupied by each type of geometrical pattern represents its associated spending data.
Agitato
Project Agitato attempts to represent evolving musical information within a single image frame, i... more Project Agitato attempts to represent evolving musical information within a single image frame, in the hope of capturing the subjective and perceptual qualities of time as expressed in music. The title of the project, named from the music term agitato, depicts the restless agitated style of the music. Each image in this series is generated based on a musical passage from Nicolas Scherzinger's inter-sax-tive. For any given moment in time, spectrum of the music's frequencies is analyzed and used as the input to construct visual elements with various characteristics. As the music progress, the visual elements accumulate and are composed into a single image reflecting the music material within a defined duration of time, allowing viewers to perceive the movement of music from a single viewpoint, rather than as a linear experience of time.
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