Thursday, July 15, 2010

Idea Development / Critique 2

The earth is slightly tilted on its axis. As the sun shines on the earth, it shines more directly on the northern hemisphere in June, and more directly on the southern hemisphere in December. That's why the seasons are different in each hemisphere. In the spring and fall, the sun shines fairly straight on the equator, giving both hemispheres equal warming.
Here I would like to share with you about all 4 seasons that we do have on earth and you can see that the colors will be change once a season will changing.


"Spring"




Spring is one of four temperature seasons, the transition period between winter and summer. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and re growth. The specific definition of "spring" as a season differs, however, among scientific disciplines such as astronomy and meteorology, and in cultural and human terms. The exact definitions are explored below.As it refers to climate and the Earth's tilt relative to the sun, spring days are close to 12 hours long with day length increasing as the season progresses. The color of this season is Pink, Peach, Red, Aqua.....

"Summer"




Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, between spring and autumn. It is marked by the longest days and shortest nights. The seasons start on different dates in different cultures based on astronomy and regional meteorology. However, when it is summer in the southern hemisphere it is winter in the northern hemisphere , and vice versa. In areas of the tropics and subtropics, the wet season occurs during the summer. Tropical Cyclones develop and roam the tropical and subtropical oceans during the summer. In the interior of continents, thunder storms are most likely to produce hail during the afternoon and evening. Schools and universities have a summer break to take advantage of the warmer weather and longer days.

"Autumn"




Autumn (also known as fall in American English) is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in March ( Southern Hemisphere ) or September ( Northern Hemisphere ) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.The equinoxes might be expected to be in the middle of their respective seasons, but temperature lag (caused by the thermal latency of the ground and sea) means that seasons appear later than dates calculated from a purely astronomical perspective. The actual lag varies with region, so some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn" whilst others with a longer lag treat it as the start of autumn. Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, and March.

"Winter"




Winter is the coldest season of the year, between autumn and spring , marked by the shortest days and longest nights.
So, we already talked about all four seasons as you can see all the related video up there and showing about all four seasons.


I hope now you know about all seasons !

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Research

Refer to the diagram below, which is a typical diagram when we learn about seasons in school, due to the axis tilt of our planet with respect to its orbit around the Sun, sometimes our Earth’s northern axis is tilted to the Sun and sometimes the southern axis is tilted to the Sun.
Another way of expressing is there will be time when our Sun is above or north of the equator and time when it is below or south of the equator. Only during the equinoxes, the Sun is exactly on the equator.So, the Sun rises northeast from March to September, and then on today, the Sun will pass by the equator and heads south. After that from September to March next year, our Sun will rise southeast and set southwest. Then on the Vernal or Spring Equinox in March, the Sun once again passes by the equator and heads north and the cycle repeats itself.






Astronomy Picture of the Day has a nice photo showing the different position of the Sun for the northern hemisphere. Just bear in mind that this photo does not reflect our situation at the equator. At the equator, the “middle band” Sun should be directly overhead (at the zenith), while the solstice Suns (“top band” and “bottom band” Sun) are the same distance above the horizon.

"Spring"



"Summer"



"Autumn"




"Winter"



Season Color Analysis



Spring Color Chart

Changes between the red of the winter and the red of the summer are the value and the chrome. Every season has a red or a green or a blue; but the red of the winter enhances the person winter and it’s not as good on the person Spring.Black for springs with dark hair and vivid skin. Spring has medium and light colors, and some vivid colors, and it is the season, which looks best with corals and salmons.

Summer Color Chart

Some color is missing from some of the palettes for example, black is missing from the Summer palette, because it’s not a flattering color for Summers close to the face.Summer: has soft colors and all the pastels for you to choose from; its dark colors are more muted than those of Winter Pastels are lovely for Summers.

Autumn Color Chart

Strong colored Autumns look wonderful in a black. Perfect for Autumns also are camel or most shades of the browns.This palette has rich, warm, golden colors, light and dark in tones both muted and vivid.There are some colors – about a dozen – which can be worn by all seasons.

Winter Color Chart

The Winter palette has the range of all dark, vivid, and bright colors.
It also has all those very light icy colors. It holds all the primaries, being white, black, pure red, and navy. Winters do not wear most oranges well. Light-medium browns and some camel are not the best choice for winters.

In this Sketches I just shown that all Season determine by "Amount of Sunlight", "Length of Day", " Height of Sun","Seasonal Temperate"and "Degrees of Axis". So All four Seasons Such as Spring, Summer, Autumn and winter are depends to all this happening.


Season's Temperature


In this bubble chart I tried to show the Seasons, Duration, Temperature and Colors. So you can see what is the season and what exactly is a duration of a year that the season will change.
Here I will show you the contrast of all season's color and you can see a difference of colors.

http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=5ek82kmlhufqusr784563

Actually I made the survey to people answer and I can see the range of people whom didn't experienced four seasons in their life.
So, Here I would like to share with you about some idea that how I want to show all seasons in sensorial design mix with the visual and sound.



I hope you all Enjoy it :) and please if you do have any suggestion, Please Let me know.

References

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com
http://www.beauty.com
http://www.tagtool.org/wp/

Friday, July 9, 2010

User generated content in Mobile Digital Media


On Thursday 08 July 2010 we had to present about Social / User behavior and I've selected the topic about "User Generated Content in Mobile Digital Media". 
So, In this section, I would like to describe about the data that was collected from a large telecommunications service company in South Korea. The sample is drawn from 3G mobile users who used the services of the company between March 15, 2008 and June 15, 2008. The collected data from 3G mobile services because it enables users to upload their content faster than the conventional mobile services. Further, these services are more commonly available in the larger screen handsets that facilitate more user- friendly content generation and usage. It took us almost 2 years to negotiate access to this dataset, which we eventually intend to make public (properly anonym zed) for validation, verification and continuous research and off course is not relating to my FYP that I'm doing now.
The dataset consists of more than 9.5 million mobile data transaction records across 180,000 users encompassing their content uploading and downloading behavior. We also have data on 34.9 million voice calls made by the same users that enables to draw social networks.
The mobile transaction data includes individual-level information on users' content generation and usage activities include detailed information on all kinds of content generated by users through their mobile phones. In addition, we have detailed user-related demographic and geographical location data including the location from where the call was placed that provide further insights into the drivers for user's mobile content generation and usage behavior.
So the application such as twitter, Facebook, Skype, YM and even we can upload the blog from our i-phone. So this is all about generate content in mobile digital media.