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David Choi

David Choi 09-10

June 8, 2012 By David Choi

Wiki Last Modified: October 14, 2009, at 03:56 PM

Development References Open Source Projects
WordPress Database Structure

Interfacing with WordPress Database

Video Player Project

Spanish Video WordPress Site

Current

  • Salaberry
  • Decided to use DASE for backend uploading for video content
  • Waiting for Noah and Salaberry to provide content, will manually post content once I get the content

August 2009

  • HTML 5 in action not Flash Google Chrome Experiments

Filed Under: 2009 - 2010

DavidC 08-09

June 7, 2012 By David Choi

Wiki Last Modified: August 10, 2009, at 06:34 PM

Current

  • Salaberry
  • Don’t know exactly what Susan is talking about for some technical errors
    • Window Resizability: A box in the top corner to resize?
  • Need to modify a site-wide used CSS file that is used throughout several TBH sub-sections, will discuss with Susan tomorrow about those tweaks
  • Worked on image effects using a AJAX|JQuery image gallery plugin for TBH Waco
  • Current TBH What it was like Interactive What Waco
  • Dreamweaver templates locks in erroneous code:
    • How? If someone copies and paste code developed previously, there exists code in the header or elsewhere that gets locked in, that would later need to be added or deleted depending on the goals of the project.
    • Why is this important even though it looks good? Because there exists extra code, or erroneous code that causes slow downs in rendering and could put pressure on servers if it doesn’t already.
    • Furthermore many times I find the non-editable parts need to be editable later down the line, I need to add in tags in the header, and developing code in Dreamweaver is a pain, I have to open up the file in BBEdit instead just to make a few changes. So my question is why do we even bother purchasing Dreamweaver?
  • Image Gallery App
  • Made tweaks to online training course material for touch-screen console Mod Touch Screen Simulator
  • Previous Touch-screen console Touchscreen Simulator
  • Google Maps Map
  • Working with Google Web Toolkit to build UI interaction for TBH
    • Test 1
    • Test 2
    • Reasoned out that allowing for multiple DialogBoxes would be a distraction for this type of information. There is no need for analyzing information side by side, instead its more just rote knowledge rather than comparative comprehension, maybe will utilize multiple DialogBoxes in a situation where comparing information from 1 page to another is convenient and helpful.
    • Trying to figure out the how to allow opacity without too much distraction, sort of like a glass window, planning to style windows to have a metallic orange vibe.
  • Met with Susan, to discuss about Varga section for TBH site. Varga
  • YEAH! made the graph builder use up 3x~5x less memory than my earlier iterations.
  • Figured out a logical relation from a given data set, to the location of placing text, and other relations:
  • Will focus on design this week, and ability to customize design, and pre-set color schemes.

Given {(0px,0px) –> (500px, 600px)} how do you transform those set of numbers into {(initial years, lowest unit measurements) –> (end year, highest unit measurements)}?

  • Determining mouse location on x-axis with respect to the data given: (myStage.mouseX /(graphWidth/xlines))*((xf-x0)/xlines))
  • Determining placement of tick marks on graphs for a given set of data: (graphData.x-graphData.startX)*(graphWidth/(graphData.endX-graphData.startX))
  • Talked with Ran, and will be working on first getting the graph builder to be customizable by using xml data sheet, setting colors, size, etc.
  • Currently working on getting it to mimic graphs with Texas Politics
  • current graph builder : Data Display
    • XML Example XML datasheet
  • Meeting with Susan sometime this Friday or Monday Possibly

April

  • Been recoding the graph builder in Object Orient way, running into problems, thinking about reverting back to old version. Would have been more efficient, and code would run more smoothly. Much more easily transferable to Flex if need be, but am not using Flex components.
    • Key differences from Flash and Flex,
      • Flex provides better coding environment than Flash
      • Flex more oriented to creating RIA’s (“Rich Internet Applications”) more quickly than Flash.
      • Pre-made components allows for quicker development of RIA.
      • Flex generally creates a larger .swf file because of the “Flex Framework”.
      • Pre-Made components may not be optimized toward project goals, which could lead to speed performance issues.
  • Would rather not rely on pre-made components.

April

  • Update: Graph Update
  • Wondering if I can extend the Graph Builder project to a larger scope.
  • Worked on Memory Resource Management for Brink’s Graph Builder.
    • Without Memory Resource Management: Graph Builder w/o Memory Management
    • With Memory Resource Management: Graph Builder w/ Memory Management

March

  • Reconstructed several of the shakespearekids .fla files.
  • Met with Daniel Brinks, worked on his map and placed online, also working on Graph Builder:
    • LawDem Map
      • Previous LawDem Map
    • Graph Builder
      • Previous Graph Builder
  • Did 2 more AP for Steve and Susan
    • Coast
    • Baffin Bay
  • FLASH, WORD CLOUD OHHHH!!
    • Word Cloud
  • AMS logo idea
  • Changed color scheme for LawDem map, (is there a map on the actual site? because some information seems to be missing)
  • How to embed flash, or mp3 files is documented on our Basic Editing Page at the bottom.
  • Pedegogy Modules

February

  • APGen – Currently modifying to create multiple AP’s and not just Generate 1 AP
  • CMS (Student Resources/Tutorial)
    • Used HTML table, and commented out the iframe code
  • Worked on getting wiki skinned with Sinorca theme, and audio working.
  • Will ask Steve or Susan about the other flash map source.
  • Lot of TBH-Dev sites css are incorrectly linked, as I work on certain pages I will fix a few here and there. ex: Site Map
  • TBH Prehistoric
    • Looks like a portal page to the other flash maps.

January

  • TBH HTML work
  • Suloni Mod/Scott Mod

December

  • Leaves of Grass
    • Scott modified voice menu, fonts, and line numbers
    • I’ve added the zoom, modified search panel, and added keyboard events.

November

  • Map1 Prehistory Map
  • Map2 City location
  • Segmented Maps
    • Coastal Region Segment
    • Trans Peco Region

 

  • Current BookReader
  • Current Explore laBelle
  • Current Patterns Page

October 18, 2008

  • Whitman bookreader prototype: Bookreader
  • Button roll-over test: ToolBar

October 14, 2008

  • LaBelle up and running. Password protected, I do not know password: here is the link anyway

October 11, 2008

  • Modified laBelle progress

October 7, 2008

tool bar with larger paper
tool bar with smaller paper

October 3, 2008

  • Font names:
    • Texas Hero
    • Bickham Script Pro

September 27, 2008

  • Worked on Pattern’s of the Past
  • Coastal Page
    • Pattern’s of the Past
      • Reference
    • Changed some colors and added to toolbar design

September 25, 2008

email: world07exp@hotmail.com

September 23, 2008

  • Font Type design concept progress:
  • New design concept by Suloni:
    • Worked on a wooden engraving concept

Link to full JPEG image

September 22, 2008

  • E-mail from Susan, asked to do something that I think would best be done using CSS mapping over Flash. (And or javascript if needed)

September 9, 2008

  • Met with Micheal Winship, Scott and Suloni took photographs, I held up a piece of paper.

September 5, 2008

  • Image Correction meeting
    • Before
  • After

September 4, 2008

  • Worked on fixing something in the event

handler for Whitman Projects

September 3, 2008

  • First Weekly STA meeting

September 2, 2008

  • Whitman Project meeting
  • laBelle Link to Explore laBelle

Filed Under: 2008 - 2009

dchoi-07-08

May 24, 2012 By David Choi

Flash Aids Open Source Projects
Future of Flash against competing technologies

Video tutorials on Flash

Adobe video tutorials

Accessibility for Flash: Best Practices for Flash Player Detection

Combination of text and video tutorials on Flash

livedocs for Flash CS3 (Same as the Help documentation in Flash CS3)

Adobe Developer Connection

Papervision 3D Wiki – Flash 3D Engine

Example of Papervision 3D

2D Flash Physics Engine

Open Source 3D Creation Suite, like Maya, and 3DStudioMax

email: choi.david.e@gmail.com Flash Preloaders are a waste of time, if you need to entertain people why it loads, just create a simple animation. Preloaders add size and require unnecessary computations to the overall swf, as well as spending unnecessary time on developing the project

July 8th

  • laBelle

July 1st

  • Zoomv1 Modified: July 6th

May 15th

  • Working on zoom functionality.
    • Ran sent me a zoom type. Zoom1
    • Working on a slightly different zoom functionality type. leavesZoom derived from this Zoom2
  • Will meet up with Scott sometime in July.
    • He seems to be starting it from scratch on the restructuring of the code, using Flex 3 I think.
  • Trying to draw a gear and place multiple gears into flash to make audio function?
  • Theme- cross breed of this: Image 1 and a sketch: Image 2 or Image 3

April 28th

  • AWESOME: Cheap Touch pads maybe? Hurray for open-source communities!!

April 24th

  • leaves12v4 html
  • Krutie shows me an amazing flash book. (Its amazing because it seems to be made for flash player 6)
    • Medicine Book

April 18th

  • I now know why Flash exports html in an awkward way, at least in my case.

April 17th

  • leaves12v4
  • leaves12v3

April 1st

  • leaves12v2

March 26th

  • testing
    • leaves12m

March 24th 2008

  • I have been working on the next page button and prev page button but it is now rendering slower than before, so I e-mailed Olin about changing back to a previous layout of leaves.
  • Also it shows the bottom text so everything looks scattered.
    • leaves12v1
    • leaves11v7

March 18th 2008

  • Sketched out an idea for button.

March 4th 2008

  • Working on leaves of grass in general. (all unfinished)
    • Cleaning up the code.
    • Trying to find a way to speed up animations.
    • Re-working on button placements and different approach
      • Progress: leaves12
      • Previously on: leaves11v9alt

February 19th 2008

  • Have been working on page flip, text flip.

February 2nd 2008

  • Modified title animation(changed the speed at which fading occurs).
    • Decision?
  • Found out about the magic of runtime bitmap caching. Makes my animation run much smoother.
    • * do not go back in leaves

January 30th 2008

  • Changed all text within leaves to Times New Roman
  • Edited title button animation(changed rates of alpha tweens)

January 28th 2008

  • finished animating leaves of grass title
  • finished line number buttons
  • started re-working on page flip
  • filled out timing array for audio testing and start on audio testing.
  • removed facsimiles (reduced file size by about 86.7%) * do not go back in leaves
  • Olin sent me an link of a page animation without the text moving with the page.
    • main3

December 3rd 2007

  • finished tracing leaves of grass title
  • exported another video in flash (.swf) for hmiller project Jesus in American Culture

November 21st 2007

  • Talked with Olin over line buttons and arrays
  • Things to do
    • Create a line button function.
    • Place all the buttons on the electronic side only.
    • Finish animating the leaves of grass title.
    • Replace the facsimiles with the full page (not cut-offs) and straighten facsimiles pages.

November 16th 2007

  • Finished working on importing facsimiles
  • Added in play, stop, pause buttons and others
  • Fixed a few things on the hmiller flash videos
    • Still need to fix skin player problem

November 15th 2007

  • Begin working on importing facsimiles
  • Met with Tim and Daniel
    • Worked on importing hmiller videos into flash player

November 12th 2007

  • Begin animating the L,e, and v of title.
 Click Here to See: titleTopButton-> roll over Animation
  • Previously created button
 Click Here to See: modeButton-> mouse-click Animation
  • Design of leaves of grass (aka song of myself)
 Click Here to See: leaves_v2_redesign1.swf

November 10th 2007

  • Finished tracing L,e,v of title.

November 5th 2007

  • Finished leaf tracing #1
  • Begin tracing Leaves of Grass title.

November 1st 2007

  • Close to finishing leaf tracing
  • Animated leaf in flash

October 26th 2007

  • Created a simple motion tween for bookmark drop down.
  • Continued practice tracing lines in illustrator cs3.

October 24th 2007

  • Discussed with Gregg over how to implement words flipping with page using xml alongside actionscript
  • Practiced with illustrator cs3 on a drawing

October 20th 2007

  • Reworked several frames on page flip.
  • Begin working on a way to make text flip with page. (Finding a way to reapply code(actionscript) in a different way(page animation is frame by frame so I changed text box into frame by frame))
    • I went and cut the text out of the main timeline and placed it within the movie clip timeline and skewed the text box on each frame so as to look like the text is on the page flipping.
      • How to make it so the text will not change frame by frame, how to upload text into dynamic text box, and how to make it go to next set of text after it reaches the frame where it goes to next page on the animation).

October 19th 2007

  • Slightly re-adjusted page_flip animation to fit new page look

on book

  • Trying to figure how to integrate text with page flip animation
  • Got front cover of book
  • Flash group meeting
    • Advance Button Practicing (Creating buttons as a movie clip)
      • Worked on applying more actionscript on different objects: movie clips & buttons. Got more aquainted with library.
      • Timeline for main scene (realm 1) vs. movie clip timeline (realm 2).
      • Went over generally where to apply or put actionscript (on layer vs. on objects vs. layer on a different timeline within an object)

October 12th 2007

  • Flash group meeting
    • Practice Button making in flash with basic actionscript.

October 10th 2007

  • Created a general idea of bookmark

October 7th 2007

  • Trying out different page animations with after effects with Corinna’s help
  • Looking at several other page animations

October 5th 2007

  • Flash Group meeting

October 3rd 2007

  • Got help with actionscript from Greg and made button animate.
  • Still working on page flip animation.

October 1st 2007

  • Decided on 5th book design with some touch-ups

September 28th 2007

  • Worked on page animation
  • Scanned bookmark material that Suloni gave me
    • Begin working on bookmark
  • Scanned bookmark material
  • Practiced Flash with Greg

September 27th 2007

  • Several redesigns of book image for Leaves of Grass:

September 24th 2007

  • Changed paper texture of the book for leaves

September 21st 2007

  • Begin redesigning Leaves of Grass (Song of Myself) button
  • Begin redesign Leaves of Grass Intro
  • Flash Group meeting
    • Discussed each person’s experience and level of ability in flash
    • Briefly discussed different aspects of flash such as motion tweens and actionscripting

September 19th 2007

  • Worked on text animation flash for Song of Myself
  • Meeting at 1:00 PM (Overviewhttp://wikis.la.utexas.edu/sta/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.DavidChoi

View)

  • Discussed over
    • design direction -> (realism)
    • the roles of each person who partake in building this project
    • which text to use (comparison text vs. electronic text / or both)-(testing)
    • location of working files
    • what types of images to use
    • animation style and text style
  • Tested parts of https://dev.laits.utexas.edu/di/engine (Daily Intelligencer) site.

September 17th 2007

  • Recieved prototype of Paradise Lost
  • Restart on background image.
  • Simplified wiki page.

September 14th 2007

  • Begin to work on background images and animations

September 12th 2007

  • Begin to work on Song of Myself flash

September 10th 2007

  • Updated Wiki

September 5th 2007

  • Created Tiles -> ->

Filed Under: 2007 - 2008

DavidC 08-09

March 28, 2011 By David Choi

May 2009

  • Government video stills.
    • 5/4/09
  • Audio Recording for British Studies.
    • 5/1/09.
  • Cascade – Germanic Studies -Alumni page.
    • 5/1/09.

April 2009

  • Apple imovie ’08 tutorial for Maki – Japanese336k.
    • 4/20/09.
  • BS Audio Quicktime presentation
    • 4/18/09.
  • Persian Online Site.
    • Audio Tags.
[1]
  • Government Studies Teasers.
    
  • Audio Recording for British Studies.
    • 4/3/09.

March 2009

  • Audio Recording for British Studies.
    • 3/26/09.
  • Persian Online Site.
    • Worked on Imperatives and Complex and Compound Verbs.
  • The Blue Light. (Completed)
    • Created DVD of various clips from The Blue Light DVD for Hake.
  • Persian Online Site.
    • Disabled pings and comments in all pages.
    • Spot checked all audio tags.
[2]
  • Audio Recording for British Studies.
    • solo run on 3/06/09.

Febuary 2009

  • Audio Recording for British Studies.
    • Training with Mike on 2/18/09.
  • Illustrator Project. (Design aborted)
    • PPI logo
  • Audio Recording for British Studies.
    • Meeting with Mike + trial run on 2/13/09.
  • Persian Online Site. (In progress)
    • In the process of creating audio links.
[3]
  • Illustrator Project.
    • PPI logo
  • Practicing using tools in Illustrator.
    • Went through tutorial on Pathfinder

January 2009

  • Practiced tracing in Illustrator.
  • Assisted Amie with Final Cut Pro for Guria Documentary.

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Fall 2008

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10.14.08 – 10.23.08 Editing Maciszewski Documentary

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10.7.08 – Contd. Work on FAVicons/ Public Policy Banner

Dante’s World Webpage

Tornadoes Webpage

Paradise Lost Audio-book Webpage

Masterworks of Literature Webpage

Public Policy Webpage Banner (Rough Draft)

Alternate Draft

______________________________________________

10.1.08 – Contd. Work on FAVicons

  • Clouds and Precipitation Webpage
  • Berlin Topographies Webpage
  • Spanish Civilization Webpage
  • Foreign Language Teacher’s Toolbox Webpage
  • Liberal Arts Lecture Archive Webpage
  • Modern Hebrew Project Webpage
  • Constitution Day Webpage

9.22.08 – Started Work on FAVicons

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  • Jesus in American Culture Webpage
  • Primate Evolution Webpage
  • 9.9.08 – Worked on STA Banner
  • 9.8.08 – Scanned Mountain Image for Suloni

Filed Under: 2008 - 2009

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