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

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

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

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

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 -> ->

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]