Before moving away from Processing, I dabbled with it’s video export, sound import and analysis libraries. Using opengl to make some visuals.
And some more visual fun! These birds were given a flocking motion of perlin noise, which is a great smooth noise function that can create a nice pseudo flock. They are also in groups, and flock around a general area. There are 16 or 32 groups total, I can’t really remember.
Here are some images I developed when creating some drawing behaviors in Processing.org.
Processing is a language a lot like java, only with a simplier structure and integrated drawing api that makes programmatic sketching possible. I have taught two workshops on processing at UBC, part of Julio Lopez’s graduate work to create a code/artist collaborative. His project was titled HUB Media Lab.
All of these images were created from code, using sampled color from another image. Most of the routines shown here were programmed with Object Oriented practices in mind. In essence, create an Object to do some drawing, make 6400 of them or more, and let them draw.
Here are some very old projects of mine, dating 4 years and older now.
Here is a brief overview:
