LORMALIZED is the latest application by Reza Ali combining Lorenz equation, normalization and many, many particles (25k).. all made in Processing. Beautiful!

LORMALIZED = Lorenz + nOrmalization + Real-tiMe + interActive + visuaLize + partIcles + reZa + procEssing.org + 4D. This visual piece was made using algorithmic composition. It runs in real-time and has interactive controls.

You can download the application here for Mac, Windows and Linux + See more Renders.

Music in the video below: Brian Eno

See also (all by Reza):
A Drifting Up [Processing]
2D SuperShapes [Processing]
3D SuperShapes [Processing]

Created by Hiroshi Matoba, Overbug is a music-performance tool designed to compose Minimal and Dance Music. Through looping and newly arranging sound patterns, the program creates complex, polyrhythmic sounds.

Overbug differs from conventional linear controlled music sequencers, which arrange the sound into a linear timeline from left to right. In Overbug is the sound arrangement of the repeating music loops equal to the visual abstraction of circular actions which built the interface through circles.

Selected Exhibition / Performance
2009
A.L.I.C.E Museum 2009 Opening Performance, SOMA museum of art, Seoul, South Korea
transmediale.09, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2008
International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Funambolo Nt/Areal, Switzerland, Basel
International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Parco di San Giovabnni, Trieste, Italy

You can download the application for Windows XP, Vista or Mac OS X with Java installed. Windows is preferred. Unfortunately, it does not run on Snow Leopard as it requires a 64bit version of jsyn Java plugin which is not available. I have tried the new Pure Java JSyn Beta but it appears that applets need to be specifically designed to use it. Maybe our Windows readers will have more luck.

Overbug

Digital: A Love Story is set ‘five minutes into the future of 1988′ and created by Christine Love. The game is set entirely within an Amiga Workbench desktop where you are a BBS user meeting someone via a message sent to you. You send messages back and forth allowing the story to evolve.

Features:
-Discover a vast conspiracy lurking on the Internet!
-Save the world by expoiting a buffer overflow
-Get away with telephone fraud
-Hack the gibson!

The game is available for Mac, Windows and Linux and can be downloaded here.

(via BoingBoing)

Christine Sarah Love writes a variety of fiction, from short pieces that stand on their own to novel length serials. Her work varies from science fiction conspiracies to war stories to epic fantasy to simple real world drama. Some of these are written pieces and some games. You can fond out more information by visiting scoutshonour.com

Formerly known as MousePath, IOGraphica was created by Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkov to brighten up the routine work. Posting it at Flickr caused informal interest and afterward Anatoly Zenkov and his colleague Andrey Shipilov decided to evolve the app.

IOGraphica is an application that tracks your mouse movements and converts them into a single image showing all the paths you have made with your mouse. The idea is that you just run it and do your usual day stuff at the computer. Go back to IOGraph after a while and grab a nice picture of what you’ve done. Besides the mouse path, the application also tracks your idle time, displaying it as circles of varying radius depending of how much time you spent away from the computer. You can either use blank canvas or tell application to capture your current desktop as an underlay.

Find out more info + download Mac, Windows or Linux (java) versions of the app, see iographica.com

From the creator of 2D SuperShapes – Reza Ali comes the 3D version of the same, a visual exploration into superformula. Besides the ability to play with parameters and explore transformations, included also are rendering/texturing options to explore possible aesthetic that can be generated from the formula.

You can download the application here for Mac, Windows and Linux or See more Renders. The application that can be used to create these shapes and render an image of them at a super high resolution (5333×2100).

Read more on syedrezaali.com

Published by CreativeApplications.Net, ONull is an image based Vector Generator for Mac OSX. It allows the user to convert images into rasterized vector graphics. This tool was developed by Kim Asendorf to give graphic designers the ability to transform small images from the Internet into printable and editable graphics.

ONull is written in Java and uses the Processing core library as graphical engine. It is available for both Mac and via Java for Windows/Linux users.

onull.net + add your creations to the ONull Flickr pool.

Features
-16 Vector Shapes
-Vector Controls (Size, Rotation, Color Amplifier)
-Fill & Stroke Settings
-Color & Opacity Settings
-Grid Controls
-JPG, PNG & GIF Import
-PDF Export
-SVG Vector Import

I have been following Kim’s work for some time now and have been very impressed by things published on both his Flickr and site…an incredible amount of energy. ONull is just one amongst many inspiring pieces you can see here, here and here. A must follow.

2D SuperShapes is a processing application created by Reza Ali as an experiment to explore making something minimal and fun to play. We have already written about supershapes on CAN but in Flash form and 3D. What I especially enjoy about these experiments is their simplicity and boldness. Ability to play with parameters allows you to explore simple transformation, not necessarily always knowing what will come next.

Reza writes: Recently, I have been exploring SuperShapes, which are organic shapes that are rendered by evaluating the superformula with different parameters. This formula creates some beautiful and very organic shapes that can be used in other graphics to make a dynamic graphic composition (either interactive or static). Doing this in Matlab or Mathematica is interesting, but I wanted to make something a little more interactive, minimal and fun to play

To do this, Reza designed a Processing application that can be used to create these shapes and render an image of them at a super high resolution (5333×2100). Also, there is a 3D version in the works which shoul be available soon.

You can download the application here for Mac, Windows and Linux or See more Renders.

As a part of GML Week all this week where F.A.T Lab will be publishing new GML related projects each day, Evan Roth has just released Graffiti Analysis 2.0 software for Mac, Windows + Linux (soon now available) together with DustTag, graffiti drawing application for the iPhone.

Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study into the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share analytical representations of their hand styles. Influential graffiti artist such as SEEN, TWIST, AMAZE, KETONE, JONONE, and KATSU have had their tags motion captured using the Graffiti Analysis software.

The desktop software is currently available for Mac OSX only and you can get it here (separate downloads for playback and capture applications, Mac, Windows + Linux)

DustTag is an iPhone application designed for graffiti writers that visualizes the motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database, 000000book.com, where writers can share 3-D animated representations of their hand styles. All tags created in DustTag are saved as Graffiti Markup Language (GML) files, a new digital standard we wrote about earlier used by other popular graffiti applications such as Laser Tag and EyeWriter. DustTag is fully compatible with the Graffiti Analysis 2.0 software suite, which is available online for free on the DOWNLOADS page and can be used to playback DustTag creations from the iPhone on OSX.

Features:
* Line thickness based on speed.
* Tags rendered in 3-D based on time.
* Rotating the phone rotates the tag in 3-D.
* Multi-touch functionality for navigating 3-D environment.
* All tags can be uploaded to 000000book.com for free download.
* All DustTags can be played back in OSX, Windows and Linux desktop systems.
* Ability to tag graffiti data with keywords.
* Single line as well as multi-line drawing modes.
* Full screen animated 3-D playback of graffiti tag sequences.

DustTag source is also available for download if you wish to explore the ins and outs of the iPhone application. You will need the “pre release v0.06″ version of openFrameworks to compile which you can download here (+ Apple’s iPhone SDK). Of course if you want to deploy to iPhone you will need to be registered as an iPhone developer too.

Graffiti Analysis is a project by Evan Roth. All of the software changes in GA2.0 were written by Mzz Chris Sugrue, with support from the Fondation Cartier. GA1.0 was created at Parsons Art Media & Technology with input and advising from Zach Lieberman.

DustTag iPhone app was created by Evan Roth with artist Chris Sugrue.

Graffiti Analysis and DustTag were both built using OpenFrameworks.

Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: $1.99
Developer: Graffiti Analysis