- The Skeleton and the Walrus
Here’s a little Processing sketch using particles to transform text.
The story of the Skeleton and the Walrus, after the jump.
- Processing Particle Painting
This is a little processing sketch I did. The rules are fairly simple: around 6000 particles have random attractions to each other, and every 200 frames a new set of attractions is added. The large screenshots are more interesting than the small video; both are included.
More after the jump.
- Dirt Off Your Shoulders
This is an early version of a video system I’m working on. I originally wanted to make something that looked like it was communicating when really everything was just random — sort of like if the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind had used video to talk. I was working on it while listening to music and noticed that it appeared to be syncing even though it wasn’t at all. I think it has to do with how easily we see patterns, how rhythmic the music is, and how fast the video changes.
So, just an early example. I’m working on another version that uses MIDI for live manipulation.
- Madame Bovary Random Visualized Poetry
I used Python to get the parts of speech for each word int he first chapter of Madame Bovary. I fed that to Processing and had it write random poetry-ish lines. The background plots the location of the words in the original text.
- The Market Instability Monster
In Fooled By Randomness, Nasim Taleb talks about setting up a display to only show him very broad characteristics of the market. I wanted to create a kind of ambient monitor that took this idea but humanized the numbers into something that could be understood in a simpler, more passive way. Using weekly data from a total stock market index, the monster grows when instability is high and shrinks when it is low. The head is an indicator of short term instability. I wanted an aspect of the monster to retain a memory of special events in the past, and the ribs that appear at moments of extreme instability are supposed to serve that purpose.
- Processing Tangerine Dreams
I’m calling my second processing project done and moving on. It proved a bit difficult to really beat detect the ambient song perfectly, but I grew to like the slow evolution of the thing.
- Nine Inch Nails? Apparently.
Just a quick Processing project — still a lot to learn on that front. The music is Nine Inch Nails, although I’m not sure why. The random beeps are accidental.
But it’s done, and I’m moving on.