Archive for the ‘Generative’ Category
Generative Visuals
Inspired by Carsten Nicolai’s Grid Index and Moire Index, and the ambient dynamic screens of Brian Eno, I have been working on creating some generative animations based on simple sinewave manipulations. In this case, a sinewave algorithm manipulates the greyscale value of each pixel in the animation. A secondary sinewave algorithm manipulates the phase position […]
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Tags: generative, openprocessing, processing
Other Landscapes
Perlin noise curves generated in processing. Play with the live version here.
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Tags: landscape, noise, perlin, processing
Soundscape: #001
An experiment exhibited as part of the Darklight 2010 Film Festival at Filmbase, in Temple Bar. The piece was included in the Dodo Collective exhibition Points of Departure. The piece is essentially a data visualisation, illustrating the waveforms as a virtual landscape in order to generate an audio-responsive narrative. The pure data patch and subsequent […]
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Tags: darklight, dodo collective, filmbase, processing, pure data
I was playing around with Mike Davis’ Conway processing sketch and found it to be quite addictive. It is a perfect example of very limited and simple rules generating highly complex and indeterminate behaviour – and despite this apparent “randomness”, it’s fascinating how a number of recognisable patterns emerge out of the system. I haven’t […]
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Tags: conway, game of life, generative, p3d, processing, systems
Satellite Synth [In Progress]
//maximize images for clarity! Images of musical interface based on phasing patterns. Front-end visuals built in Processing, with sound synthesis currently being designed in Pure Data. Source code and demos will follow shortly. “Satellites” are added to a screen by a user, who also specifies a sonic frequency (indicated by colour) associated with that satellite, […]
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Tags: processing, pure data, sound, user interface
TradeMark_Electric_Painting
Link to source code and online java applet: http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=11064 Trademark_Electric_Painting is an examination of corporate colour coding and advertising practice. The act of a colour-ownership is synonymous with the capitalist mode of mass production – a useful tool in infiltrating the subconscious of a target audience throughout a campaign of reminder advertising. This project subverts […]
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Tags: brands, Design, generator, processing
Concrete Staircase (Descent)
This sound work consists of a Pure Data patch that uses a feedback delay system to modify an audio sample of a person descending a concrete staircase. At first, the sound is recognisable and rhythmic: the reverberations in the concrete stairwell are clearly audible. Slowly the sound begins to layer and slip out of synchronisation […]
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Tags: feedback, phasing, pure data
A documentation of an installation test of Fibonacci Music now online at vimeo. Basic rule system: int scale = 15; //how many notes in the scale, must be greater than zero F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2); //recursive fibonacci algorithm F(0) = 1; //seed value F(1) = 1; //seed value return result; //variable to store current […]
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Tags: fibonacci, generator, processing, pure data
