I recently dug up and improved Razzle, my custom-made VJ / performance program that I worked on at MAT last year. I added an automation feature that cycles through each animation every few minutes, and tweaks the animation parameters every few seconds, ensuring a constantly evolving display. The results were exhibited at August MindshareLA (pictures [...]
Keep Reading » 0I presented my masters project on June 9th, 2010 to complete my degree of M.S. Multimedia Engineering in the Media Arts & Technology department at UCSB. I wanted to explore real-time data gathering and visualization and decided to use the Twitter API as the data source to see what I could do. My system consumes [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffFor Fundamentals of Spatial Computing I explored recursive and generative architecture in a general sense. Rather than designing buildings I was concerned with generative 3D structural forms built only out of cubes aligned to a grid. I wanted to create a system that would be simple to use but be capable of creating a wide [...]
Keep Reading » Comments OffProcessing.org is very useful for making audio-visual applications quickly and easily. The included Processing Development Environment (PDE) makes it easy for nonprogrammers to get started with Processing and Java programming in general but experienced programmers will probably prefer using their IDE of choice, such as Eclipse. Processing.org has some instructions on using the Processing library [...]
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