Processing sketch - spiral gallery
So, this year, I’ve decided I that I want to do a lot more processing work. As I’m back to the world of freelancing in 2008, I’ll be making a big effort to post a lot of my processing sketches online as I do them. They will probably not be hugely exciting, but I’ve realised that documentation of work is really important - I have insane amounts of experimental work lying around and it hardly ever sees the light of day. Anyway, I haven’t quite gotten the hang of processing in the browser yet - there’s a few technical constraints I have to get to grips with. However, there’s no problem making youtube videos… so here we go - processing sketch video #1: spiral gallery, “autumn”. This sketch loads the first 25 images returned by the keyword search “autumn” on flickr.com. Then in animates them using a fibbonacci derived space packing algorithm, which was developed by observing the growth of seeds in flower heads. I like how it seems quite chaotic but is actually very rigidly defined and ordered.
Processing Sketch - Spiral gallery, autumn from Alias on Vimeo.
Note that this works fine in real time - it’s just that Processing isn’t very happy in a browser at the moment. I’m working on that, and I’ll try to post the actual applet and code soon. Processing is so much fun - it’s a refreshing change to have hardware accelleration! Go OpenGL!