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Mail Art 3 – 2008
The Artclash‘s Mail Art project has begun. I’m planning on using Processing to create generative drawings, similar to what I did last time but with further exploration. The first program is using the brightness of a source image to determine stroke weight and value for a line created along a random path. The drawings have […]
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oh! the places you’ll API…
Expanding the where we were project beyond the prepackaged cruft provided by Yahoo Pipes. We’re full on in the API now. phpFlickr has been very helpful, as has the documentation and tutorials on using Google Maps by Mike Williams. wherewewere (custom roll’d. seems a bit slower than the Pipes version. oh well, this is the […]
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Where We Were…
A spatial/visual exploration. My students in the Web Media class at Moore College of Art and Design are conducting an experiment in spatial/visual relationships. We will explore the social/spacial aspects of the modern web, using geotagging to keep a visual log of our travels over the next few weeks. We’re using Flickr’s group and mapping […]
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I Like Math…
…which doesn’t mean that I understand it. However, it does seem to have the uncanny ability to predict how some things will behave and certainly can make come cool looking stuff. Expanding on the spirographs from the other day, here’s a modified version which will iterate through a range of .1-10.0 for r and R. […]
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Oh! The Places You’ll Go…
I was messing around with generative drawing for the Processing class I’m teaching…and started playing with spirographs (my bigger brain, ie. Google and Wikipedia, reveals that they are called hypotrochoids). The algorithms are quite simple: x = (R – r) * cos(theta) + d * cos((((R-r)/r)*theta)); y = (R – r) * sin(theta) – d […]
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Moving Forward
What a week. Really busy with projects under deadline, but it’s over…for the moment. Golden Cheetah has only a couple more features that we’re looking to include before the release. I also finally got on my bike with regular frequency this week. I’m looking forward to focusing more on my classes and riding in the […]
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op art
in preparation for the processing class i’m teaching this spring, i’m reviewing casey and ben’s book which i’m using as a textbook for the course. i noticed a mention of the paintings of bridget riley as influence for a series of images titled “riley waves”. i remember creating a similar optical illusion using hand cut […]
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Hardware.
I went to the January meeting of Make Philly last week (or so). After watching the neat presentation by VJ No-Carrier on hacking Nintendo NES carts I somehow got recruited into a group using RFID tags for an audio/visual installation. So now I’m learning to play with RFID tags. At the moment I have the […]
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by way of introduction…
i’ve been playing with the Processing development environment for a bit and have been having fun. here is a collection of some of my experiments. using processing, and its Java-based language is just pushing me ever closer to becoming a “real” programmer. at the end of the day, it’s not the language you may or […]