Puifon Luong

Puifon Luong Studying BA Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts, London. Everything posted here belongs to me unless stated otherwise.

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New Website

I have a new website: www.puifonluong.com will posting more regularly there than over here.

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Some sound wave drawings I did using illustrator, drawing over the photos from my experiments. The first set of patterns were from the speakers and the second set were from tapping the balloon surface of the can like a drum. 

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Some cool patterns form when you 'cough' into the can.

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A video of the 'sound visualisations'. I was quite close to the speaker when I filmed this so the sound quality is a bit off.

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A gif of the 'sound visualisation' made from the speakers.

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This time I decided to stick the mirror/CD on a speaker whilst music was playing out, the vibrations were much stronger and created different patterns and larger shapes.

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Some screen captures from the video. 

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A short video of the 'sound waves' made from my voice.

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I attempted a different version of the experiment in the post below from a simple tutorial I found online. Using a can, cutting the top and bottom off so you can speak into it from one side whilst the balloon at the top vibrates. A mirror is attached on the section with the balloon, I used a CD as I did not have a mirror and a laser is reflected off the CD on to a wall. When I 'spoke' or 'sung' into the can the shapes formed above. I found that lower pitches made bigger circles or 'loops'. It was quite difficult to achieve the shapes on the wall as I used a CD the reflections were blurry or maybe I should try using a different container to get more vibrations going, or replace the balloon with a similar material. 

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Lissajous Figures

I came across this experiment online whilst doing research on visualising sound. Jules Antoine Lissajous, a french mathematician devised an experiment for studying sound vibrations, he attached mirrors to tuning forks and aimed a beam of light that reflected off these mirrors. The patterns above were formed, now known as Lissajous figures, he made it possible to 'see sound'. I thought this was an interesting experiment as it was another variation of seeing sound, similar to the Chladni one but with different results. 

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'Chladni plate' experiment 

I decided to try and recreate the Chladni patterns at home, I did this by sprinkling salt on a metal plate and rubbing a violin bow against the edge of the plate. The result in the photos show that it did not work too well probably because there was not enough surface area for the pattern to form so only half of the pattern formed. I quite liked the wavy lines that it created, and drew over these lines to give a more abstract view of what was formed. I also overlapped the three together, but I don't think they look to effective together or have much purpose. I will probably continue doing more experiments, and find a way to develop these later.

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Sound

A new project inspired by Physics, I was particularly interested in sound waves and how sound can be visualised, doing further research I've noticed that there are various representations of visualising sound, examples below:

Sound waves - depicting frequency, pitch, amplitude, speed, etc.

Spectrogram - visual representation of spectrum frequencies in sound, a spectrum describes sound signal in terms of energy 

White Noise - noise containing many different frequencies with equal intensities

Music notation - a system that represents music through the use of written symbols

Chladni Patterns - described patterns seen by playing sand on a metal plate which are made to vibrate

Cymatics - is the study of visible sound and vibration, Chladni patterns above is an example. Below, wave phenomena experiments using audible sound to excite powders, pastes, liquids into lifelike flowing forms.

I found the last two images most interesting, as it is strange to see that sound can create intricate patterns and shapes.  I am unsure what my outcome will be or what direction to go with at the moment but I would like to explore this further, probably by conducting experiments, creating images, etc.

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Final Gif

From our mock presentations last week, before we presented our idea to the team behind ReCreative, we received some feedback on a few changes that we could make to our gif. The version we showed last week had text constantly on the gif whilst puzzle pieces flash, this seemed a bit too basic so we decided to work on creating some sort of 'twist' to make the gif more engaging. Without trying to do something too complicated like having the puzzle pieces create some sort of image at the end, we decided instead to hide and reveal text behind puzzle pieces, the text informs people to join the community with the logo then appearing and various pieces begin to change. 

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Idea 2

From the images of the word ‘creative’ that we made we decided to use them as part of our second idea, a competition where people can come up with their variation of the word creative. The competition would be via facebook, and the image above shows how it would look on facebook as an announcement.

We received some feedback for our ideas on Friday, and from this the puzzle gifs seemed more appealing than the competition. We had to ask ourselves if we thought the competition was interesting enough for people to enter. Instead of coming up with one more idea, we decided to focus on just one out of the two we had. This was the puzzle gifs, the feedback we had was to make some adjustments to it such as making the text constant throught the gif, rewording the text on it and also changing the typeface to match the REcreative branding.

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Updated Puzzle Gif

We decided that we should add some text to the gif as the previous one doesn't really explain what REcreative is. In this version the puzzle slowly starts to complete, flashes various images of artists work and then disappears back to the beginning. 

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So far we have been working on one idea each day, yesterday we took the word creative from the name REcreative and remade it in various materials such as glitter, paint, etc. Although we were focusing more on the visual sides of things so far, we had to find a way to promote the REcreative website more. We did this by coming up with text that can be used on the puzzle gifs and also wording for the recreative logo competition idea. Users of the website can redesign their own variation of the word 'creative' in the logo and perhaps have their design featured on the website for 1 week. Myself and members of my group going to work on images/graphics that go alongside this idea, and would like to have it displayed on their facebook page. We were also thinking about maybe incorporating the images we made yesterday of the word creative onto the competition graphics.

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 Idea 1

Representing the REcreative website as a puzzle in the form of a gif. Each puzzle piece shows work from different users on the website. The idea that many different artists come together on one website.