Rachel Ruddy's Best of 327

Stop #1: Gillian Nieh's Ocean Particles

This particle system of ocean plankton demonstrates a beautiful use of flow fields. See how the particles move together!
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Stop #2: Minseo Kim's Boba Spaces

With a wide range of color (flavors), boba count, and boba type, there's a drink for everyone here! The creativity is clear in the variety you can find.
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Stop #3: Caroline's Egg Spaces

On the theme of food and parametric spaces, Caroline's egg spaces are both simple and exciting with the overlapping circles creating clear meaning. I quite enjoyed creating massive eggs with varied levels of cooking.
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Stop #4: Juwon's Food Brushes

Continuing with our theme of food, Juwon's food-themed brushes were easy to play with and visually interesting. The rice looks wonderful and I was pleasantly surprised by the hotdog brush.
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Stop #5: Joyce Zhao's Surfing

Now, departing from food, we have a colorful surfing gif. The gently color-changing background pixels in addition to the smooth surfer movement creates both a clear theme and an exciting visual.
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Stop #6: Joyce Zhao's Bad Professor Bot

Another one of Joyce's works, the bad professor bot, stuck out to me because, well, it felt a little too real. Still, because it felt so real, it was effective in both stressing me out and in making the conversation feel somewhat natural!
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Stop #7: Darshit Amit Pandya's Mesmerizing Particles

This particle system, with its slowly drifting interleaving lines, was mesmerizing to watch. It almost felt like a brush rather than a particle system, which I quite enjoyed, because it felt like I was a part of the creation process. The colors add to this effect.
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Stop #8: Hannah Orozco's Interactive Twitter Essay

This essay by Hannah Orozco was both interesting and amusing. The visuals were clear and easy to interact with - I was particularly impressed by the searchbar that allowed you to look for tweets with specific key words!
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Stop #9: Isaac Kim's Dark Circles Drawing

With a combination of gently changing colors, slow motion, and color contrast, Isaac Kim created a positively hypnotic drawing that made me want to stare for days. The circles also change size and overlap, making the drawing look almost 3-dimensional.
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Stop #10: Alex Kang's Meteor Shower

Alex Kang's use of small shapes and an absence of color creates a drawing that is truly reminiscent of the wonders of a meteor shower. The movement is clean and directed, and the detail is eye-catching.
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I hope you enjoyed my tour! This class is full of so many talented people 💖