There were a lot of blog posts for the nature and machine assignment that I thought were really well done. I feel that the best of them was the Nebulae project, it just looked great every time it reset and really felt like you were looking up at the night sky. Another project that I loved was the atomic flower project. The shape is interesting in its own right, but with all of the colors that it generates, it looks amazing. One of the other projects that I liked a lot was the one that created the color bubbles that mixed colors as the bubbles spread out. For the suggestions, I will have to say that the abnormal tomato could be changed slightly. Nothing big, but I would suggest that the background be in the draw section so that there isn’t the build up of the stem/leaves. Another thing I would suggest would be to change the speed of the bubbles on the magic bubbles piece. I feel like it would make the image seem to flow better. The rolling eggs one is the one that I make an association with because, a few times I was able to make the eggs in a pattern that seems like a hypnotic spiral. It just looks cool because its actually spinning.
The interactive piece that inspires me most of all is the Shadow Garden at the Tech Museum in San Jose. It is a shadow art piece that is cool in it’s own right because shadow art is pretty cool in it’s own right, but the screen has little butterflies on it that land on the shadows that you cast. If I were to try to improve the Shadow Garden, it would be really hard. I guess I would add more of a background to it to try to make the scene more alive and I would also try to make the butterflies a little more defined. It is still probably my favorite interactive piece though.