processing experiments #2
I’ve been also playing around with Processing the past couple of weeks. We decided that we need to hack this platform as it crystallizes a lot of our interests in computers and art. So we’ve started coming up with simple experimentations that we can get our heads around, eventually working towards more complicated interaction between film, code and visuals for some of the projects we are prototyping now. It’s funny, unlike Soum, my background is in visual arts rather than computer science so for me it’s been trying to first figure out the somewhat unintuitive relationship between code and aesthetics. I have done some Flash and Actionscript earlier but still mostly a rookie in these matters. But after the beginning difficulty, things seem to be now coming along rather nicely. Its always fun to be able to learn something while the end is something that, occasionally, also looks rather pleasing. These ones were some simple experiments I made while trying to get my head around drawing in 3D. Basic ellipses can go a long way. Click on the image to see the original experiment. The generative animation will open up in a separate page and you will need to download the Java applet to see it.
Matti is a researcher, designer and visual artist working with emerging digital technologies globally. He is currently dayjobbing as a Teaching Fellow in Digital Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and spends time shuttling between London, Helsinki and the rest of the world.
Soum is a new media technology architect, ex-mixercast founding member, filmmaker, photographer, and a general wanderer who lives partly in London and rest of the time in Mumbai. He builds scalable web sites, dabbles in emerging technologies, and spends rest of his time in various film and photography projects.