Paul-Schotter
Schotter clone à la Processing: à la Processing.js: and à la openFrameworks: The openFrameworks version takes the random seed from the mouse position. Otherwise, the code is nearly identical for all...
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Text Rain clone à la openFrameworks: The significant lines of code for Text Rain are: void app::createLetter() { letter *l; // Index in textStr from which to take this letter int lPos; // Find first...
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Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project by Scott Draves (PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon) generating a continuous fractal animation. Users anywhere can contribute their computers...
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Meischeid is a small animation by French director Matray. 3D primitives are displaced with various noise textures corresponding to different frequencies on the piano. The textures are animated by hand...
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Just Landed is a visualization of airline flights by Jer Thorp using Processing. Twitter is searched for passenger’s Tweets containing the phrase “just landed”. Tweets are parsed for a destination, and...
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I find this map of Facebook connections striking for how clearly it shows political and cultural borders. Clear lines are drawn between the US and Canada, among the North-Western South American...
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I’ve long wanted to record the 3-dimensional shape of a tree–both the high frequency movements caused by the wind as well as the slower growth. I’d be interested to see what parts of the tree move...
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The idea is to render color palettes over time for a selection of movies. We could look for color trends by genre or year, or play a “match the movie to the palette” game like so: Of course I don’t...
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25 movies and their color palettes graphed over time: At the macro level, certain patterns can be seen. Tron: Legacy seems to take its colors more from Blade Runner than from the original Tron....
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Cheese is a set of recordings of actresses trying to hold a smile. A computer continuously “rates” the strength of their smile, and sounds an alarm if they falter. It’s technically impressive. I’m used...
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Tim and I have two ideas. First, we have a small box containing sand, clay, blocks, or some other familiar, plastic medium. A Kinect watches the box from overhead and gets a heightmap of whatever the...
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Magrathea uses the kinect camera to dynamically generate a landscape out of any structure or object. The kinect takes an depth reading of what’s built on the table in front of it, which is then...
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So I saw some demos of Active Appearance Models like so: And seeing them, I saw that they looked interesting. My original idea was to take the mesh animated by an AAM, detach it from the person’s face,...
View ArticleLooking Outwards at Helmut Smits
Helmut Smit’s LP Bike is a clever and amusingly low-tech bike-record-player. The video doesn’t show him using it in public, but do I hope he’s exploited the enormous performative potential. Trick bike...
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I have user’s button presses on their cell phones being delivered via Twilio (thank you to the pirate pader who recommended it) to a Java application on my computer, using the HttpServer class in Java...
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I have a Pure Data patch supplying pitch detection to a Java application, which will be drawing and animating fish in a fish tank based on the sounds people make with their voices. These red blobs are...
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Blurb: “The Babblefish Aquarium” is a virtual aquarium where users can call in and leave a message, and a fish is generated from the pitches of their voice. Try it at babble.zapto.org. As I explain in...
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