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Presented at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

The animation and soundtrack are algorithmically generated, mostly composed from trigonometry functions. Both are created from a single program and run in real time at 60 fps. No random functions are used.

Created using OpenGL in Processing and PureData.

 
This Friday, I’m showing a new piece at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. I wrote a program that generates audio and visuals all at once. More info about the show is up on the Museum’s event page.

Inspired by Robert Hodgin’s Introduction to Cinder, I started experimenting with animated patterns using trigonometry functions in Processing.js. The size of the circles are calculated by a single line of code which uses their x,y position and an angle variable that is incremented over time. Here’s one of them: “ellSize = sin(x*y+angle)*7 + cos(angle)*8;”. Things got pretty op-arty! Click to cycle through different patterns:

I posted documentation of a bunch of projects including the sound reactive program I exhibited at GAFFTA, my Fun-a-Day art jokes, building’s trip to the flea market, a few of the many paintings I made last year, the add-art show I curated, and the surprise bike finish line.