Garden at Jepson Center
Video of installing new “Garden” project at Jepson Center for the Arts
Author: shiffman
Keywords: processing.org
Added: January 22, 2007
Archive for January, 2007
eskimoblood
Pascal Chirol
Pour en finir avec toi, l’idiot… //////////////////////////////////////////
Ce dont EasyDesign parle, est cette imitation insensée, d’une vie insensée. Une ritournelle ingénieuse à ne rien dire. Habile à tromper une heure l’ennui par le reflet du même ennui. Cette imitation qui est la critique du présent et le faux témoin de l’avenir, qui par beaucoup d’algorithmes et de grands calculs, ne fait que se consumer en amassant des images que le temps emporte.
Que faudrait-il prouver par des images ? Rien n’est jamais prouvé que par le mouvement réel qui dissout les conditions existantes. C’est à dire : l’organisation des rapports de production d’une époque et les formes de fausses consciences qui ont grandit sur cette base.
Les images existantes ne prouvent que les mensonges existants.
Les codes représentés sont des pierres dont est bâtit tout l’édifice. On y retrouve rien d’autre que les principes du graphisme, mais sur une scène plus spacieuse, et plus mobile, et dans des environnements plus directement sensibles.
Il n’est pas question de supprimer l’auteur, de l’automatiser comme on dit, dans une configuration ordonnée, qui jouerait le jeu de la compréhension réglée et de la participation. Non ! Toute expression artistique cohérente exprime déjà la cohérence du passé. Il convient de détruire la mémoire dans l’âme. De ruiner les conventions de sa communication. De démoraliser ses amateurs.
Quel travail !…
Car c’est une société et non une technique qui a fait le graphisme ainsi. EasyDesign aurait pu être examen historique, théorique, essai, mémoire. Il aurait pu être le travail que je fais en ce moment. C’est un travail qui se fige mais ne s’achève pas. Toutes les conclusions sont encore à tirer. Les calculs à refaire. Le problème continue d’être posé. Son énoncé se complique. Il faudra recourir à d’autres moyens !
Détourné de Guy Debord.
flight404
View through a sunroof.
I have been taking photos of powerlines for a while now. Pretty much ever since I moved to San Francisco. I think it is because of the occasional web of electric bus powerlines hovering over major intersections. They amuse me. Perhaps because they are relatively new to me. Im sure the long-time locals are done with this particular form of visual litter.
For a while, I have been wanting to do some sort of visual experiment with these powerlines but I couldnt figure out the angle, both conceptually and literally. Then it dawned on me. I have already built it.
All I needed to do was alter the ‘Arcs’ piece so the camera looked up instead of down. At each node point, I can place a tall cylinder with a couple cross bars near the top. Move the Arcs spawn point to match with the top of the tall cylinders, and voila!
Here is the initial prototype. Now comes the hard part. I want to make it far more robust. I need to adjust my class metaphor to embrance wires that can span for miles. Right now, each new main utility pole will make a random number of single arc connections which die off once they reach their destination. I also want to create a system for making dynamic utility pole designs which will include the occasional transformer, wired connections, and even thos little bent rebar ladder steps built into the sides.
Much to do, but I think its a nice start. More soon.
eskimoblood
Marius Watz: ElectroPlastique #2 (2006)
Generative animation for multi-screen projection. Originally created for Club Transmediale 2006 in Berlin, where it was shown as a total visual environment on 12 screens dominating the club venue.
Author: mariuswatz
Keywords: generative art animation 2d processing.org watz
Added: January 19, 2007
eskimoblood
Neon Organic (2005)
Generative animation for large-scale projection, originally shown on a building facade in Berlin.
Author: mariuswatz
Keywords: 2d neon organic watz generative animation facade processing.org
Added: January 19, 2007
eskimoblood
Neon Organic (2005)
Generative animation for large-scale projection, originally shown on a building facade in Berlin.
Author: mariuswatz
Keywords: 2d neon organic watz generative animation facade processing.org
Added: January 19, 2007
eskimoblood
ElectroPlastique #2 (2006)
Generative animation for multi-screen projection. Originally created for Club Transmediale 2006 in Berlin, where it was shown as a total visual environment on 12 screens dominating the club venue.
Author: mariuswatz
Keywords: generative art animation 2d processing.org watz
Added: January 19, 2007
eskimoblood
Kugelstudie (2006)
Generative animation created during my stay in Vienna as Artist-in-Residence at the MuseumsQuartier, hosted by the Kunstverein Medienturm in Graz.
The title means “Sphere Study”, and refers to how the shapes are created by cutting “slices” of virtual spheres.
Author: mariuswatz
Keywords: generative art animation 3d sphere watz projection processing.org
Added: January 19, 2007
eskimoblood
Kugelstudie (2006)
Generative animation created during my stay in Vienna as Artist-in-Residence at the MuseumsQuartier, hosted by the Kunstverein Medienturm in Graz.
The title means “Sphere Study”, and refers to how the shapes are created by cutting “slices” of virtual spheres.
Author: mariuswatz
Keywords: generative art animation 3d sphere watz projection processing.org
Added: January 19, 2007
TomC
New Theme!
OK, so I lied. I haven’t moved hosting yet, but here’s the new theme from Andreas anyway - I hope you like it! The header image is from Flickr member mantolini.
For some bizarre and coincidental reason, the YouTube posts are all beings attributed to Andreas. It’s happening in the admin interface too, so it’s nothing to do with his theme. Some strange interaction between Wordpress, FeedWordpress and YouTube’s RSS I suppose. Suggestions welcome!
TomC
Changing Hosts, Things Might Break!
I’ve got new hosting for Processing Blogs and Processing Hacks, and my own website. I’ll be moving things over in that order. Things might break, so sorry about that.
When we return we should be running a new theme for Processing Blogs from Andreas Köberle.
TomC
Some Attempts at Twitter Visualisation
Twitter is a website that asks only one thing, “what are you doing?” and aggregates your responses intermingled with the responses of your friends over the last 24 hours. If you let it (I don’t) it will SMS you every time your friends update, or if you prefer (I do) it will send you an instant message instead. It will also let you update by web, IM or SMS. It’s certainly an easy way to SMS a group of people and only pay for one message, but the IM and web integration mean it’s more than just group SMS.
So it’s not IM, SMS or the web, but it talks to all three. I like it. I want to hate it. I suppose I cheat, because I don’t let it SMS me very often. And maybe because most of my contacts are a continent away, so I only get a few messages a day (they’re all asleep). But there it is: I’m not stressed out by it, I’m still Getting Things Done (though that system’s not for me, yet). Continuous Partial Attention be damned.
Of course, it’s fully Web 2.0 buzz-word compliant, so it has an API that you can use to get data in and out. Not a super-useful one for visualisation, but useful enough to get started. Knocking some ideas back and forth at Stamen with Eric yesterday I decided it was worth trying his idea of plotting twitter activity on a circle. I started with a circle representing the previous 24 hours, rather than a 12 hour clock face, for several reasons:
- we wondered if there would be obvious patterns to spot, for example between our European and American friends
- the Twitter API only gives you the previous 24 hours of activity
- if a whole day fits in one circle, then circles can be overlaid to compare days
- Eric wants to make coasters of our visualisations… shh!
That’s it really.
Given 24 hours of statuses I assigned each user a colour and plotted the status at an angle corresponding to how much of the day had elapsed. I joined each message to the previous message from that person, if there was one. Here is how my first pass turned out:
And here’s another variation, still with a colour per person but ditching the arcs and instead using concentric rings for status messages. There are small dots again mapped to time of day. Moire be damned.
The top of the circle is midnight (PST), the bottom is noon. The data was sampled at about 4pm. I’m not sure where this circular/spiral visualisation is going, but if I revisit it I will probably unroll them into a rectangle in the hope that there is space to draw and read the messages. After all, the messages are what it’s all about.
These were built with Processing, using the now-built-in XML support and the gorgeous PDF library. I haven’t posted the applet because it doesn’t work online with the Twitter API, sorry.
eskimoblood
Y-rotation of an attractor
simple y-rotation of an otherwise invariant attractor, custom software, 628 frames @ 100M hits per frame, render time ~24 hours (yikes). [finer detail is lost here due to compression]
Author: davebollinger
Keywords: processing.org strange attractor chaos fractal
Added: January 17, 2007
TomC
Some Attempts at Twitter Visualisation
Twitter is a website that asks only one thing, “what are you doing?” and aggregates your responses intermingled with the responses of your friends over the last 24 hours. If you let it (I don’t) it will SMS you every time your friends update, or if you prefer (I do) it will send you an instant message instead. It will also let you update by web, IM or SMS. It’s certainly an easy way to SMS a group of people and only pay for one message, but the IM and web integration mean it’s more than just group SMS.
So it’s not IM, SMS or the web, but it talks to all three. I like it. I want to hate it. I suppose I cheat, because I don’t let it SMS me very often. And maybe because most of my contacts are a continent away, so I only get a few messages a day (they’re all asleep). But there it is: I’m not stressed out by it, I’m still Getting Things Done (though that system’s not for me, yet). Continuous Partial Attention be damned.
Of course, it’s fully Web 2.0 buzz-word compliant, so it has an API that you can use to get data in and out. Not a super-useful one for visualisation, but useful enough to get started. Knocking some ideas back and forth at Stamen with Eric yesterday I decided it was worth trying his idea of plotting twitter activity on a circle. I started with a circle representing the previous 24 hours, rather than a 12 hour clock face, for several reasons:
- we wondered if there would be obvious patterns to spot, for example between our European and American friends
- the Twitter API only gives you the previous 24 hours of activity
- if a whole day fits in one circle, then circles can be overlaid to compare days
- Eric wants to make coasters of our visualisations… shh!
That’s it really.
Given 24 hours of statuses I assigned each user a colour and plotted the status at an angle corresponding to how much of the day had elapsed. I joined each message to the previous message from that person, if there was one. Here is how my first pass turned out:
And here’s another variation, still with a colour per person but ditching the arcs and instead using concentric rings for status messages. There are small dots again mapped to time of day. Moire be damned.
The top of the circle is midnight (PST), the bottom is noon. The data was sampled at about 4pm. I’m not sure where this circular/spiral visualisation is going, but if I revisit it I will probably unroll them into a rectangle in the hope that there is space to draw and read the messages. After all, the messages are what it’s all about.
These were built with Processing, using the now-built-in XML support and the gorgeous PDF library. I haven’t posted the applet because it doesn’t work online with the Twitter API, sorry.