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Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG
Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG
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Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG

Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG is an interactive media artist and design consultant in Hong Kong. His artworks have been exhibited at the World Wide Video Festival, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Stuttgart Film Winter Festival, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival and the China Media Art Festival. In the former Shanghai Expo 2010, he provided interactive design consultancy to various industry leaders in Hong Kong and China. Chung studied computer science in HK, interactive multimedia in London, and fine art in Melbourne. He also develops software libraries for the popular open source programming language Processing. He is the author of the book, Multimedia Programming with Pure Data. Currently, he is Assistant Professor in the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, where he teaches subjects on interactive arts, computer graphics, and multimedia. His website is: http://www.magicandlove.com.
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Understanding the coordinates system


In the last section while working on the size of the graphical shapes, we understood that when a square object with size 4, it will cover the whole GEM window. In the polygon and curve examples, we learned that each point in the GEM window corresponds to a point in three-dimensional space.

The GEM window is a two-dimensional projection plane of a three-dimensional space. The origin (0, 0, 0) is the center of the window. The horizontal axis is the x axis. Toward the right-hand side is the increasing value of x. The vertical axis is the y axis. Moving upward increases the value of y. For the z axis, you have to imagine a line moving from the center of the GEM window toward your eyes:

If we consider all the points with z value equal to zero, it will form a flat surface parallel to the GEM window. On this surface, when we move from the left-hand margin to right-hand margin, the x value changes from -4 to 4. When we move from the bottom margin to the top margin...

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Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG

Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG is an interactive media artist and design consultant in Hong Kong. His artworks have been exhibited at the World Wide Video Festival, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Stuttgart Film Winter Festival, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival and the China Media Art Festival. In the former Shanghai Expo 2010, he provided interactive design consultancy to various industry leaders in Hong Kong and China. Chung studied computer science in HK, interactive multimedia in London, and fine art in Melbourne. He also develops software libraries for the popular open source programming language Processing. He is the author of the book, Multimedia Programming with Pure Data. Currently, he is Assistant Professor in the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, where he teaches subjects on interactive arts, computer graphics, and multimedia. His website is: http://www.magicandlove.com.
Read more about Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG