Made with Processing. Read about it here.
http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=91

Cast: flight404

It was finally time to revisit the Ribbons piece I did a while back. It has been a favorite of mine and was in desperate need of a rework.

This version, now called tendrils for obvious reasons, features a few black vines that forever grow upwards. As they grow, smaller tendrils branch out from the main one and slowly unwind. Once they grow as much as they can, they start to break down into particulate matter that is swept away by a perlin noise wind.

More versions of this project to follow, but for now, how about a video! Vimeo version below or you can see the more detailed, bigger download version in lovely Quicktime format.

Tendrils 01 from flight404 and Vimeo.

UPDATE ——————————————————
Added another video. Slightly different particulate matter.

View the Quicktime here or watch the Vimeo version below.

Tendrils continued from flight404 and Vimeo.

Made with Processing. Read about it here.
http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=91

Cast: flight404

a test of the “most pixels ever” library on the IAC video wall

Author: shiffman
Keywords: processing.org IAC videowall runlolarun
Added: August 25, 2007

One more video. . .

Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run from shiffman and Vimeo.

Radical dance collective Cyderdelic in a documentary narrated by the legendary John Peel.
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It’s well brown yeah
Keep it futile
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Their trip to amsterdam. Pils pills freak out. Frogger
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Images are acquired with a webcam and mapped to a set of 3D prisms in real time.

Their heights are distorted…

Author: flowerpunkchip
Keywords: boat ferry john peel vomit dope skunk super ambulance revolution anarchy dance collective jackson necrophilia crack xtc
Added: August 24, 2007

I’m teaching a Processing workshop in sunny Sheffield as part of the SIAA Digital Summer School. Thanks to Joe, Mat and Mark for inviting me out here again after the performance at Lovebytes earlier this year.

The files from the workshop are available here: 070824_sheffield.

Processing links

• Processing.org
• Processing libraries
• Processing Flickr group
• Processingblogs.org
• Processing Hacks
• del.icio.us/tag/processing.org

Recommended blogs

• Generator.x
• Daniel Shiffman: Teaching at ITP / Blog
• Flight404 aka Robert Hodgins
• Toxi aka Karsten Schmidt

OOP tutorials

• Dan Shiffman: Particle systems
• JavaRanch: How my Dog learned Polymorphism
• The Java Tutorials: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walterra/436805745

Using Rhizome Navigation I analyzed the protagonist’s relationships from the movie Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. The size of a name relates to how many times it is mentioned within the movie script. The name positions are calculated by parsing the screenplay and analyzing which names appear close to each other in the text.

Some thoughts: Frodo and Sam are very close to each other (of course), and it’s interesting that the two stand between Gollum and The Ring. Although Aragorn is linked to both Arwen and Eowyn, the relationship seems not very strong (when compared to Frodo/Sam and Gandalf/Pippin for example). Both women appear at the opposite end of the graph. The relationships Gandalf/Pippin and Frodo/Sam seem equally weighted. This could also be an indication how the main storylines of the scripts are weighted.

I’m looking forward to you interpretations.

More related stuff coming soon.

Rhizome Navigation is based on the wonderful processing.

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I kept quiet about this project for quite a while, but now is the time to tell you a little bit about it: For an upcoming documentary by Benedikt Bjarnason, Rhizome Navigation was used to create animated visualizations of large genealogy data sets.

Below you can find a sample. It shows a 3d family tree starting with director Bjarnason at the bottom and going up to early icelandic settlers from early 10th century. The graph layout was done using an adapted force-directed algorithm and features more than 3300 persons.

What set’s it apart from similar visualizations is the capability to show far more complex relationships by breaking up the classic tree structure and following a more rhizome-like approach - and of course the sheer amount of relationships shown.

Rhizome Navigation is a development framework for building data mining and information visualization related (real-time) applications. It is based on the wonderful processing.

Update: French blogs talk and comment on Rhizome Navigation. I better start refreshing my rusty French language skills…

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