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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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Experimenting with advanced effects


In this last section, we will explore a number of objects to tackle some common interactive art/design situations. Most of them involve more advanced knowledge of the GEM library.

Layering with gemhead

In a lot of design scenarios, we have a background image, instead of just the black background. In this case, we can use two gemhead objects, one for the background and the other for the foreground graphics. The gemhead object has a parameter to determine its render order.

If you have multiple gemhead objects in your patch, the render order depends on its render number, that is the number parameter in its specification. The default number is 50. The higher the number, the later it renders. In this example, the gemhead object with 50 renders first. The gemhead object with 55 renders later. In effect, the gemhead object 50 will be in the back, as a background layer. The gemhead object 55 will be in the front, as a foreground layer.

Coloring pixel data

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Published in: Jul 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782164647

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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