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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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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I’m not yet sure if this is the slightest bit useful, but it’s kind of a neat concept. Built with Google maps and Ruby on Rails.
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I’ve always wanted to take the paper-based playlist system that we use at WBOR, and make it digital. This would allow the music directors to more easily to do charts and adds, and also would allow the current track information to be displayed on the WBOR webpage. So this weekend I mocked up what this web application might look like. Heres a link to the mockup:
Web Playlist mockup
Let me know what you think. I think the mockup is pretty self-explanatory. I talked to Mark, a Bowdoin student and PHP programmer, who may be able to help us put it together. I’ve also thought about making it with Ruby On Rails, which as far as I can tell, is an elegant, intuitive language.
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http://www.cinematicfilm.com/the%20catalogue.html
“Oakley’s video work deals with the retail environment and offers a bleak vision of surveillance technology … ‘The Catalogue’ places the viewer into the position of a remote and dispassionate agency, observing humanity as a series of units whose value is defined by their spending capacity and future needs.”
http://www.no-garlic-please.com/design/hallucinating-sofa/
hallucinating sofa
http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/research/index.html
hugo’s research athenaeum
http://www.vendian.org/envelope/dir2/day_of_dots_clock/?do=00:33:21#topofclock
dot clock
http://sensoryimpact.com/2005/11/meet-james
saucer + wine glass holder
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http://www.ethanham.com/rhizome/
email erosion. sculpture installation of biodegradable styrofoam that is eroded by water when spam is sent to the bots’ email addresses.
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/index.html
multi-touch sensing through frustrated total internal reflection
http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php
lemur is a similar multi-touch display geared for audio production
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0804_050804_ligers.html
ligers are actually real. huh.
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