Recently I’ve been really interested in Generative Art — in how amazing and aesthetic things can be made out of data and algorithms. I posted about my first deeper look into it (Tim Huchinson, plus my own attempts to use Kandid) over a year ago.
Recently this interest has me looking at Processing. I know very little about programming so how it works is pretty opaque to me, but I’ll tell you this much: it works using data, it works over javascript and thus works on the internet, and some of the works made using it are blowing my mind. Here’s several of em.
An array of garbage bags + fans and Processing, and it’s art that feels more than a bit like life:
One Hundred and Eight – Animated Patterns from Nils Völker on Vimeo.
Crazily complex “Subdivided Columns” by Michael Hansmeyer, built out of computations from topographical data from a standard Doric column. These are not just conceptual: they actually were output, prototyped as objects, which makes me feel excited about how wildly structured objects and architecture of the near future might be.
And yeah three great music videos made with Processing:
Moullinex – Catalina from Moullinex on Vimeo.
Made using Kinect data: total writeup here.
Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.
(Aha! The first piece that uses color in the whole dang post! I promise I love color really!) Writeup of the beat notation process here.
The ‘Mandela’ Variation from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.
Writeup of his Processing-writ ZenO growth system here.
