CubeMonster from eduardo omine on Vimeo.
Just finished a simple Processing sketch for the Processing Monsters project by Lukas Vojir. He invited Processing developers to create and share (source code included) little black-and-white, mouse reactive monsters — there are some cool entries already, go check them out.
I Am David Sparkle – Jaded Afghan from eduardo omine on Vimeo.
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After watching Moscow Olympics’ Second Trace video, Errol from KittyWu Records invited me to make a video for Singaporean band I Am David Sparkle.
Jaded Afghan is one of the best tracks on their 2007 album This Is The New and also a song well suited to my beat detection algorithm (based on this gamedev.net article — look for “frequency selected sound energy algorithm #2”).
Inspired by this thread (especially comments from Chris O’Shea and Dave Bollinger), this Processing sketch has two modes: capture and render. In capture mode, there’s audio playback, FFT analysis and beat detection — the resulting data is saved to a text file. In render mode, there’s no audio: all data is retrieved from the text file and PNG still frames are rendered. It took approximately 1h30 to render the 6779 frames for this video, at 800×450 pixels, 24FPS. The movie file with audio was assembled in Adobe Premiere.
It’s highly recommended to download the original 170MB Quicktime file — the link is at the bottom of the page, below “Statistics”. A Vimeo account is required, but it’s free.
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Libraries and code snippets used in this project:
Finally managed to experiment with Context Free, a software that uses context-free grammar to generate images. Substitution rules define a grammar — it’s very simple but also very powerful; appropriate to explore the concepts of recursion and randomness.
Caffeine Viewer is a proof-of-concept experiment we made at colmeia connecting our coffee machine to the internet using Arduino and Processing.
Using our office’s coffee consumption data (available through a public API), we made a few data visualizations — mine was made with Canvas and Javascript (with a little help from my favourite JS framework, Mootools).
One of the coolest things about Canvas is its ability to draw cubic bezier curves (Actionscript can only draw quadratic curves natively). To convert the logo outline from Adobe Illustrator to a collection of points in Javascript code I used SVG as transport format.
Every 100 milliseconds the screen is updated — each point of the logo is displaced by a random amount of noise that is proportional to the amount of coffee consumed during the selected period of time. Check its source code.
Moscow Olympics: Second Trace from eduardo omine on Vimeo.
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This is my first music video; made with Processing + Ess library.
The song is Second Trace by Filipino band Moscow Olympics, from their recently released debut album Cut The World. Although the band’s musical references are clear (post-punk, shoegaze), their music has that ineffable quality that makes it stand out.
