Kynd uses openFrameworks to create pencil-like drawings of photographs:

Pencils has been the most primitive or the most basic drawing and writing tool since around the last century. It also was the one of the primary tools when I was in an art school and has been my best friend since then. Trying to simulate the tone of pencil sketches with programing codes, I reacknowledged that the beauty of of the tool lies in the delicate control of the blackness, strength and thickness of of lines, which I could hardly achieve in some of my attempts so far.

Continue reading.... Pencil Drawing [openFrameworks]

First app post-Biophilia: MotionPhone by Scott Snibbe Studio is a network-enabled interactive app for communicating with animated colors, shapes, and movement. This application was Scott’s first work of interactive art, created more than twenty years ago and now released in a form where anyone can use it

Continue reading.... MotionPhone – Network-enabled Communication with Colors, Shapes, and Movement [iPad]

Still Life by Scott Garner is an interactive wall piece that takes traditional still life painting and ads a motion-sensitive frame on a rotating mount.

Years ago I had the idea of a still life painting that wasn’t so still, but could never quite wrap my head around how to build it. After various experiments and explorations, I settled on Unity 3D as the ideal tool to make it happen.

Continue reading.... Still Life [Unity, C, Objects]

While the euphoric, dynamic forms of computational artist Marius Watz are probably quite familiar to CAN readers, the artist’s curatorial and educational undertakings should definitely not to be overlooked. As an extension of his practice, Marius consistently organizes prescient and formative exhibitions and workshops (see the upcoming Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms) and often teaches within various design and architecture schools across Europe and North America. Marius just posted the above slideshow of an upcoming teaching exercise that he’ll be overseeing at the The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and it is worth clicking through. Entitled “Screensaver Culture” the assignment is a critical reflection on the current potential of the screensaver given that the days of CRT monitor burn-in have long passed. In setting up the exercise, Marius provides a chronological lists of essential precedents including scrnsave (1983), After Dark (1989), SETI@home Classic (1999-2005) and reconsiders that lineage in light of contemporary computing (and data practice) trends to extrapolate a range of approaches that his students might employ. Check out Marius’ slide deck and assignment brief – it offers a surprisingly compelling retelling of an easily overlooked topic within the broader history of computer graphics.

ofxTimeline is a new add-on for openFrameworks by James George aka obviousjim. The addon allows you to treat content in your oF apps as you would in After Effects or other similar applications that are driven by keyframe animation and linear timelines. You are able to manipulate (say) object values, or any variable using a animation timeline, inserting keyframes, all in realtime. See video below.

Continue reading.... ofxTimeline [openFrameworks]

The agency Scholz & Volkmer developed a new product presentation for the world wide relaunch of the Montblanc website. For each product line a generative artist was invited to develop a flexible and unique artwork, which provides the masterpieces with an appropriate presentation stage. In addition to other artists, such as Onformative and Anthony Mattox, who were developing artworks for the brand’s watches and perfume lines, Marius Watz was invited to develop their interpretation of an artwork for the product category “eyewear”.

Continue reading.... Montblanc by Marius Watz [Processing]

Photographed by James Medcraft

This november onedotzero will once again take over British Film Institute (BFI) and showcase the diverse array of the very latest in visual creativity, via five days of expertly curated compilation screenings, feature films, exhibitions and installations, live audio-visual performances, bar events, education projects, presentations and panel discussions.

Like last year, Creative Applications Network has once again joined forces with onedotzero and this year we are celebrating 10 years of Processing and trying to discover what the new type of ʻfimmakerʼ may be. Opensource, the Processing project encompasses a development environment and an online community promoting software literacy within visual arts. A specially curated highlights package of past and present works in motion in association with CreativeApplications.net will be shown. In addition, we’ll be hosting a Q&A session. Karsten Schmidt will also be running a 2-day workshop titled “Joys of Processing”.

We would love you to join us. See here for information and tickets.

BFI Southbank, throughout 23 – 27 November 2011. London.

Continue reading.... onedotzero: 23–27 November, BFI London [Events]

‘Dutch Wife’ is a new short film by Jesse Kanda, a visual artist based in London.

We have asked him to briefly walk us through his work process which utilizes tools such as Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, and Ableton Live.

JK: The whole thing started when I was walking along a canal in Clapton and saw all the greens floating around. I took these initial test photos with my phone.

Continue reading.... Dutch Wife [Inspiration]

Confetti is the latest Javascript feature on CAN, created by Patrik Svensson. If you click on the button at the top right corner the script will be activated.

Patrick explains: There are two types of confetti, the traditional pieces of ‘paper’ and a ribbon type that wiggles its way down the screen. The ribbon confetti uses a physics simulation for the motion while the paper confetti is animated using sine functions.

Many thanks to Patrik for his submission.

metervara.net/blog/ | metervara.net/cover/1-Confetti/

If you’d like to submit your own, see this page for more info.

Connexions is a real time animation by Alexandre Le Guillou created using Processing. The application toys with the idea of connection / network, linking different points along a sphere, creating shapes, colours, etc.

The visual created is like a living sculpture, where dots and lines moving, connect each others and create shapes, colors. A control panel with variables allows the user to customize render, distance of connections, number of dots, opacity…and export image or video.

Project Page

Processing official website, processing.org
Vector and Geometry library, toxiclibs.org
GUI and controller library, sojamo.de/​libraries/​controlP5
Music by sayCet