˚✿˖° ⋆ April Projects ⋆˚✿˖°

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LAITS Admin UTDirect Wordmark

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For this project, I was tasked to create section titles for the phrases, “COLA Purchasing” and “COLA Faculty Courseload” to replace where the blue rectangle is hovering over!

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I made some few drafts but was given feedback in setting the ratio of the titles through a max height! Above shows the visual demonstration given by De’sha!

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Finally, I corrected the borders of the titles and it was off to be sent to the client!

E316L Intro to British Literature

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Next I was tasked to recreate canvas homepage and dashboard banners for E316L! I was given instructions to keep a similar color scheme as the buttons and to keep the same images from above!

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For my first draft, I focused too much on creating focus on one particular building, I forgot to inlcude the three others! However, I did like the gradient in the background but it was back to the drawing board!

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Next, I decided to keep the gradient background, but added the rest of the images to the side! Initially, I wanted to keep the color scheme at the forefront but with some feedback from De’sha, we decided to switch it up!

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We decided to make the pictures the forefront and decrease the opacity to make sure the title of the course was still readable! I thought since two of the images were more horizontal I could layer those two on top of each other in the middle and have the more vertical images on the side.

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With some feedback from De’sha, we decided to make all the images into columns and I think it turned out great! I’m still getting the hand of custom canvas layouts but it was fun going back and seeing my process!

Create Your Own 8-Bit Style Animated Gif

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One of the most fun trainings I did this month was create my very own GIF! I based it off my art logo again and wanted to show the switch from happy to sad with the ears and the face! I’m so happy with how it turned out!

˚✿˖° ⋆ March Projects ⋆˚✿˖°

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E316M (Summer 2025/Barrish)

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For this project I was assigned to recreate a title card, canvas homepage banner, and canvas dashboard graphics for E316M American Literature taught by Dr. Phillip Barrish! As seen above, my job was to replace the Hamilton and Wheatly images and replace it with the Marble image instead! I then created two options, one design following the original format and the other with a faded background!

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With some feedback from De’sha, I created two new designs with one still resembling the original but with more text and the other with an overlay on it!

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I also edited some canvas assets to only include Dr. Phillip Barrish’s name! We decided to go with the design that resembled the original as well! Then it was time to put the editable files into a pptx template that the course can use!

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Basic Training: Logo Design

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I also did some more training by creating a personal logo design in Adobe Photoshop! For this design, I was inspired to create a logo that I could use for stamps and thank you cards when vending my art! I decided with a mascot logo resembling me which suits my brand the most! Although this is just a draft logo, I think it’s a great start to establishing my art brand identity!

STA Presentation Website

Started: 04/04/2024

Description: This website is the website showcasing the livestream for people online to watch!

Thank you to Nicolas for amazing banner.

Web Editor Help

Started: 04/04/2024

Description: This project helps staff at COLA to search easily the right documentation with the use of Retrieval Augmented Generation. Currently, they use Google Dialogue when it only returned one matching result and when adding a new documentation, people need to add a lot of phrases to the document in hope that it can match these phrases with user’s search. Moreover, the model or the techniques they use with Google Dialogue is a black box so it is hard to improve the system. Therefore, I come in to help with upgrading the retrieval part of the system with using Cosine Similarity Search when I converted the documents into vector embedding using Sentence Embedding Model. Then, all of the retrieved relevant documentaries are fed into LLM so that it can generate helpful responses.

All of the functions that wrote:

__construct()

calling_hugging_face($text)

convertHelpCorpusAndStoreToDatabase()

storeEmbeddingIntoDatabase(array $embeddingVector, $path, $title)

processEmbedding(Request $request)

return_best_match_pgvector($embeddingData, $k = 5)

show_validation()

showForm()

The results:

Without intent:
[2025-03-25 21:13:03] Validation Top K: 1, Validation Score: 61, Total: 134 -> 45.5%

[2025-03-25 21:11:49] Validation Top K: 2, Validation Score: 82, Total: 134 -> 61.2%

With intent:
[2025-04-04 19:25:30] Validation Top K: 1, Validation Score: 73, Total: 134 -> 54.5%

[2025-04-04 19:26:44] Validation Top K: 2, Validation Score: 94, Total: 134 -> 70.1%

After eliminating not useful validation entry:

[2025-04-04 19:41:12] Validation Top K: 2, Validation Score: 92, Total: 126 -> 73%

[2025-04-04 19:42:55] Validation Top K: 1, Validation Score: 72, Total: 126 -> 57%

[2025-04-04 19:51:38] Validation Top K: 2, Validation Score: 92, Total: 126
[2025-04-04 19:53:53] Validation Top K: 2, Validation Score: 92, Total: 126