subtle shifts
Angela Gabereau
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CART 363: Advanced Languages of Programming
Assignment 5
April 12, 2007
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With this project I wanted to experiment with emergent behavior and computer visualization using images from the real world. I wanted to explore incorporating photographs into computer visualization to create an aesthetic that diverges from that provided by using Java graphics objects. I wanted to break away from solid forms and bright colors and create something that appears soft and subtle.
Emergence is incorporated into the piece by the activity of mutator objects on a collection of images. The activity of the mutators blends the collection of photos pixel by pixel, creating a collaged image, composed of pixels from all the images in the collection. This processes is ongoing. The surface of the screen is constantly, delicately changing and vibrating, slowly moving from one visual state to another.
The photographs I chose are very simple and architectural. They are images of a black and white tiled floor, taken at different zoom levels. I hoped that by blending these images in this manner that subtle patterns would emerge, then fade and move into another configuration. What results is a noisy and dynamic canvas, composed of faint colors and lines.