I ran across these images exploring NodeBox, which is a programming environment that can be thought of as Processing for Python (instead of Java), being developed by the Experimental Media group at St. Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. Emphasis is on generating 2D design and AI (instead of 3D graphics and interaction).
Percolator is a program written in NodeBox that generated the images above:
Percolator is a set of algorithms that create an artistic
composition of images, based on what’s in the news today. In short,
three things take place once the code is run:
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Harvest news from the internet: using the Google
library for NodeBox, a number of news sites are visited (CNN, BBC, Fox
News, Google News, ABC News, MSNBC, CBSNews, Yahoo! News, Wired News,
USA TODAY) and summarised with an extension of the Keywords library for NodeBox.
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Harvest corresponding images: a number of images are drawn from the Photobjects library, based on the keyword summary of today’s news.
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Collate the images: a composition is then assembled from these images using the PhotoBot
library for NodeBox. This algorithm knows things about contrast and
harmony, and typically applies rotation, scaling, overlay blends, hue
blends, and gradient masks.
The developer, Tom De Smedt, has a great article about his work with NodeBox and Artificial Creativity.
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Watch the amazing video: http://www.flightphase.com/about.html
Artist Karolina Sobecka has created a new, mobile form of installation art that breaks free from the usual constraints of projected art: indoor or static. The project is a delightful commentary on the role of the car as a hybrid indoor-outdoor space, its ability to transmit concepts from both, and the effects of technological development on nature.
“At night projections from moving cars are shone on the buildings downtown. Each car projects a video of a wild animal. The animal’s movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor.”
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processing has several new or updated libraries including:
switchboard is a web services library to pull data from Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Del.icio.us, Flickr, and more
MovieMaker makes movies of sketches
ESS handles sound samples, streams, and live audio that can be changed, analyzed, saved, etc
I now have a working version of Cubist Life that has audio functionality.
It monitors the built in mic and increases the 3d projection of the
image such that different parts of the video respond to different
spectrums of sound. I recommend whistling.
here is ted. i believe he is shouting.
i’m working on another version
that uses circles instead of boxes. see me working. it also reduces the
number of colors displayed. i’m trying to get an interactive particle
system going. but that will take time..
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photos of our interactive art installation on a 50’ x 50’ plot of land in a cow field in Tennessee. Playing on the idea of an indoor gallery space, hundreds of balls of yarn were tied, tossed, and hung to create individual pieces occupying area between poles, suggesting walls and barriers. Thousands of festival-goers contributed to the constantly changing, never static form. (its mentioned on a knitting blog) Six artists served as curators (armed with scissors) throughout the festival as the piece evolved. Designed John Crowell, Abby Goldfarb, Brandon Kaplan, Sofie Scheerlinck, Ian Trask, and Evan Wheeler, with guidance from John Bisbee and Wade Kavanaugh, at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. much better than last year’s installation.
Check out the Projects page to the right for the very same description you just read, as well as links to Cubist Life, a 3D video mapping application i demonstrated at Bonnaroo. Its a live-video processing application that maps the video feed into a 3D space based on the brightness of the feed. The video’s pixels are displayed as colored boxes, whose depth is determined by the pixel’s brightness. Moving the mouse along the y-axis pulls the brighter boxes away from the duller ones. The viewing perspective rotates about the displayed feed to highlight the relief of the moving image. Made using Processing with about eighty lines of code.
i also heard the following acts perform: dios (malos), devotchka, devendra banhart, bright eyes, oysterhead, death cab for cutie, cat power and the memphis rhythm band, tom petty and the heartbreakers, my morning jacket, common, neville brothers, magic numbers, dungen, clap your hands say yeah, elvis costello and the imposters feat allen toussaint, beck, cypress hill, radiohead, dr. john, dresden dolls, refugee allstars of sierra leone, matisyahu, the streets, stephen malkmus and the jicks, sun volt, sonic youth, and a little phil lesh and friends. Brooklynvegan took pictures of some of them and reviewed some performances.
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A visualization of death tolls from September 11, Iraq, Indian Ocean tsunami, and Darfur, Sudan. The visualization uses four particle systems to generate circles for each location, differentiated by size, color. Each circle represents 1000 people killed. The life of particles is the total number of deaths in thousands. The size of each particle is the sum (in millions) of the number of results from five Google searches for
death
dead
casualties
killed
death toll
to represent our collective interest and compassion for each crisis.
Due to the large death count in Darfur, the particles would not fade out before exiting the screen. So, I added methods so the particles would bounce off of the bottom and side of the window. This is accomplished by reversing the acceleration vector of a particle as it hits a point below the window (to give the illusion of compression). The acceleration increases after collision to indicate the souls’ release from their bodies. Representations of Iraq and Sept 11 quickly puff out of the window, so I didn’t give them bouncing abilities.
To engage the viewer and emphasize the concept, the user can interact with the particles using a mouse. This feature proved too disruptive to the larger circles and took away from the effectiveness of the presentation. To play on the visual idea of souls flowing from the location, moving the mouse can disrupt or pause the path of a particle, so the user can speed up release of souls or catch a few so they fade before they can exit the window. To accomplish this, a particle’s acceleration vector is altered by subtracting the current mouse location from the previous frame’s mouse location so moving slowly seems to hold the particle under the mouse and moving quickly seems to collide with it.
NOTE: firefox and camino seem better than safari at rendering the visualization
P.S.:
I received a greenlight today for exhibiting the currently-unnamed 3-d video mapping applet you can find below. It will be modified so that the projection into 3-d space is determined by pixel brightness and sound levels around the installation. It will be shown at TN’s Bonnarroo Music & Arts Festival in various spots so it will respond to live performances. Hopefully a sizeable portion of the 100,000 attendees will experience it. The installation will use a mac, microphone, DV camera, lcd projector, walls, and white bedsheets. I will update with lots of photos, etc, of the video project as well as the sand, bamboo, and rock installation I am working on.
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heres dfhf.
see more examples
or
enter an address for a graph (made with processing)
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If you like violent movies, you should move to Korea. Not because we don’t like you, but because arthouse violence is all the rage there. On April 28th Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, the 3rd of Park Chan-wook’s revenge series, is released on DVD here in the states. They are pretty intense (see incest, violence).
I asked him if violence, even imaginary violence, was perhaps an exaggerated response to this virtual new world, an extreme form of human contact. “Because of capitalism, relationships between people and their communities — family, or clan, or region — have largely broken down”… The characters in his films, he said, were “bound to feel lonely and isolated from the world.” That is why he often shows them communicating by e-mail or mobile phones, instead of actually seeing one another. “This puts a distance between people, leading to misunderstandings, which is interesting.”
From the New York Times Magazine article. He is a philosophy major.
Update: In the of “being the man” and “keeping people down” the NYT is charging cash money for the article. Try these less compelling ones instead.
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how many africans must die from aids before you can see some boobs?
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http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/News/timeline/index.htm
past presents the future. bt’s predicted innovations for the next fifty years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm
year end list from bbc
http://thaspot.thuglifearmy.com/
hip hop/urban blog host. perfect companion to gmail. why? because g is for gangsta
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm
our taxdollars are developing a ‘gay bomb’ for military purposes .. once they stopped working on the “Who? Me?” device that makes folks fart
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
retrievr. drw thngs nd gt flckr pctrs tht rsmbl yr drwng. vwls r fr lsrs
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/school_washington_pupils_given_patriotism_test.htm
washington state’s ‘politics, patriotism, and protest opinionnaire’ from english class
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article334684.ece
the nsa tracks everything you write or phone about. next theyll track everywhere you drive or walk like the uk’s license plate tracking plan
http://www.physorg.com/news9273.html
“Perhaps the sexiest part is the solution we put together will make the passenger experience less intrusive”
grammar be sexy too
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10362257
picnic table with wheels. and an engine.
http://www.oase.udk-berlin.de/%7earam/rscreen.mov
‘random screen’ by aram bartholl. made with candles and beer cans
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/fraud.html?pg=1&topic=fraud&topic_set=
click fraud clogs, splogs, and zombie networks
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/interior.html
coolest rooms according to wired
http://www.ctrl.org/essay2/JFKHIT1.html
while reading about the nsa and seeing that stabilized jfk video, i ran across this anonymous conspiracy theory allegedly researched for ten years before being published ten years ago. other than being a few years off schedule and sounding like a crazy at times, this guys predictions are frighteningly on point.
What the Group wanted by the time of the “incubation
period” [1995-2000] was a society that was uneducated, amoral,
uncommitted to democratic institutions, living in fear, with a
sudden and very drastic reduction in spendable income
simultaneous with societal chaos.
…
dramatically increased media [TV] portrayal of violence and
joblessness [role models have no jobs, bad guys live in big
houses, etc.; begin your reading with The Early Window,
by Liebert & Sprafkin], reduced the standards of education and
early training for rational thought [see Endangered Minds for a
partial account] and fostered every possible dislocation in family
structure they could engineer
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Some stuff:
Balldroppings Play with space and sound in this little app
Processing.org Information visualization and art. Evan, are we going to do this class?
Animated diagram of bike couriers through London (video) from Gravestmor.com
1970s Czechoslavakian paper camera (PDF) “Print out this pdf to create your own 70’s Czech pinhole camera. It even takes 35mm film.” from Gravestmor.com
And some other stuff:
MooFlex Impressive new web app, lots of ajax
Script.aculo.us Another silly url, but this stuff is amazing. It is built right into Ruby on Rails
Slawesome A great way to send voicemail with e-mails
Fluxiom This web app will be amazing. Like iPhoto in a browser.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4468884.stm
scientists examine the beer goggle effect
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4501152.stm
new mammal. but is it catesque or lemurish?
http://wohba.com/2005/10/magnetic-liquid-weirdness.html
magnetic liquid. check out the video
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4500593
did you know that the original manuscript of ON THE ROAD by jack kerouac was typed on a 120 foot long roll of paper?
http://www.modernartisans.com/detail.aspx?ID=436
we made (not me personally) bowls out of lps for the graduating radio managers last year. so dont buy one from this place (although they make a fine bowl). make it yourself fool
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69726,00.html
“We know Anchorage is gonna get the SHAFT, but we just don’t know when” apparently shaft is the local name for some guys particle accelerator he wants in his house
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=6d8134fbbe964d76f864b3b9682dcb19
“call the police.
Address … Abadejo, Mission Viejo, CA 92692.
tell them to go down the hall to the bathrooom.
im soo sorry<3″
czech kid posted his suicide on myspace
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