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Code Art
As regular readers will have noticed, I’m on a pretty big generative art kick at the moment. That said, I’ve been playing around in Processing using the ideas presented by Casey Reas and Marius Watz at the symposium last week, and have posted some shots to Flickr.
Here’s a little taste:
February 9th, 2009
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Doodles and Hiroshi Ishii at Intuit
In case anyone isn’t feeling patient enough to see what those doodles in the last post turn into over time, here’s a few screen caps taken after about 5 minutes.
Personally I recommend putting on some nice minimal techno and just zoning out watching it. It’s better than your typical visualizer because you get to watch it build up over time. Personally I’m grooving to the awesome Richie Hawtin mix available free at Resident Advisor.
In other news, Hiroshi Ishii, second in command at the MIT Media Lab came and spoke to a crowd of about 30 at Intuit today. Professor Ishii does really cool stuff with what he calls “tangible interfaces.” Basically, the idea is that computers and other digital devices are black boxes that provide no affordances to the user (obvious ways of creating predictable effects through physical manipulation), and so Ishii works to design digital things that have such affordances. Or are at least really really cool. I wanted to go tell him that I’m a student of Golan Levin (who I believe was a student of Ishii), but I had to run to another meeting immediately after the talk. It was great to see lots of videos of Media Lab projects though, which never fail to wow. It turns out that Intuit is actually a sponsor of the Media Lab, so with a little luck there will be more of these talks…
May 28th, 2008
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Computer Doodle
I’ve been enjoying my summer and using it to play with Processing at my leisure. And thus, I bring you a new computer doodle (left click to add elements, right click to pause it - and give it a minute or two to develop, I can promise some very pretty colors).
May 28th, 2008
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Soniball
Still crazy busy here - have been for a while (hence the lack of posts). This week should finally mark the end however. I just wanted to throw up a quick link to a short video of my final project for Golan Levin’s Audio-Visual Systems class:
I plan to get an online version up sometime in the near future. The piece was an overwhelming success - I heard a lot of really positive comments and a number of people seemed downright addicted. I couldn’t have been happier. It was also really interesting to see how people used the piece (which was a sort of generative musical game) - a number of folk did things I hadn’t even realized you could do. It made me understand why those Europeans are so in to so-called “critical design” - it’s a lot of fun to make something cool and then watch what people do with it.
May 7th, 2008
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can’t… stop… processing…
Aren’t they perty? So simple, yet so fun. By the way, I realize I haven’t explained what processing is: Processing is a programming language and development environment created by Casey Reas and Ben Fry of the MIT Media Lab. Processing was created with designers, artists, and the sort specifically in mind, but it’s still pure coding. It’s essentially a simplified open source version of Java, and as such makes a good starting place for people interested in object oriented programming. It’s particularly popular here, because Ben Fry was a visiting professor in the school of Design last year, and is a friend of Golan Levin (so Golan really pushes us to learn it).
April 4th, 2008
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More Processing
As mentioned in the last post: just… can’t… stop… playing with… processing…
Here’s a more geometrically complex version of the last applet - this time with pretty colors! Go ahead and click on it until you get something you like, then do a screen capture, and call it your own!
And it gets even better:
(just click and hold to get things going, both will pause again when you let up on the mouse button).
April 3rd, 2008
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Processing!
So I’ve been spending way too much time learning processing. I’m enjoying it far too much really, to the point where I’m having a hard time getting myself to do my other work. At any rate, I thought I’d post a fun computational drawing applet I threw together. Check it out:
April 3rd, 2008
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