Table of contents
- 1. Courseware
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2. Topics
- Code as Interface
- Browser based graphics
- Enough Javascript to make shiny things
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Social computing
- Delightful and critical
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Microinteractions
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Prototyping like a pro
- Interactive-systems
- Designing digital interfaces for low energy impact
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V/A/M/XR and the body as the realm of synthetic experience
- Enough aframe to make tiny worlds
- The Face Filter Project
- Phygital Interactions
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3. Master Digital Design
- 4. Work in Progress
- 5. Zolder
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6. Design, Art and Technology Arnhem
- Critical Engineering 1
- Critical Engineering 2
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Assignment book
- Other consciousness
- Digital Invisibility
- Digital Time
- Learned Interactions
- Spooky action at a distance
- Museum of Happy Phones
- The Anti-Product
- Browser History Doppelgänger
- Dumb Scrap / Smart Scrap
- Chindōgu - the art of the “unuseless”
- Antenna Disguise
- Capacitive Sensing Swatches
- Wayfinding in the Data Jungle
- Situational Awareness
- One Thousand Years from Now
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Learnable bits
- Olympiad of the Senses - Proprioception
- Free Haven
- Esoteric Codes
- Building a controller with the ESP32
- OSC
- Life Support
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Alien Agency
- Microcontrollers
- 7. Surveys
- 8. Workshops
- 9. Browser-based graphics
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Digital representation of color
Most digital screens represent visual information in the form of pixels. A pixel has no specific shape or physical support, it's more of an idea than a physical thing. A pixel basically holds one piece of information, its color. Think of it as a tile in a mosaic, each tile has a uniform color, all the tiles together configure an image.
Regardless of which color space you are working on in your favorite tool, at the end of the processing chain before the pixels in your screen get flooded with light, the videocard will process all pixel information in RGBA. A stands for alpha, which denotes the alpha channel or level transparency.
Computers represent color by storing bits in memory, a position of a specific bit determines what component of the color and the value of that bit determines how much of that component. This diagram shows how a 32 bit color value is stored in the graphics cards of a computer.
As you can see, computers store color values in binary numbers (ones and zeroes). Another way to represent binary numbers that is a bit more convenient (at least for programmers it is) is the hexadecimal number system. This is why in HTML and CSS you have probrably become used to color your compositions by using the HEX color code.
Of course all this is fine for the computer and the programmers that build the software at the lower levels. But as a designer you will mostly operate at a higher level of abstraction. The next chapter on color spaces might be a bit closer to what you know of color.