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Recode submissions

toxi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:14:00 +0000

Here’re four of my personal favourites of the many submissions to the Recode competition of the V&A Decode identity, which closed last Sunday… I’m not part of the judging panel, but I’m looking forward to find out if one of them will be chosen to be shown on the cross-track projectors throughout London Underground. Generative art for the masses! :)

By Joe Turner

By DieTapete

By Stefan Mylleager

By Lia

Ginger section

toxi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:21:08 +0000

It’s always still a nice surprise to spot other people’s experiments with these libraries in the wild. Just came across this beautiful example of using volumeutils by mariusz0z0Bydgoszczy, a cross section of an imaginary plant. Unfortunately no further info is available about the actual growth process, though it looks like a semi-random particle walk or DLA method.

I especially like the amount & colours of the contour layers used to visualize different densities. A similar (only in principle) thought also lead to the concept for the V&A Decode Identity completed recently. Just create a VolumetricSpace instance, use one of the preset VolumetricBrushes (or create your own one through sub-classing), use it to manipulate the “density” in the space and then pass the space instance to a IsoSurface to turn it into a TriangleMesh. Et voila! Example code for this basic approach comes with the volumeutils library download.

UPDATE: There’s also an older, alternative version which is using sensor inputs to control its growth (so maybe the above process is related or even the same)…

“this rhizome grows only if PIR sensor doesn’t detect movement [either nobody is in the room, or you stay still] amount of light measured by photocell influences branches girth. in this way, resulting form is a diagram of changing environmental conditions.”

toxiclibs community showreel

toxi — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:14:57 +0000

In a way 2009 was the best year for this project so far: more commits than ever, more examples, more documentation and above all more (as well as more or less happy) users – thank you all for your support & patience! Especially since the April release (nicknamed “CADA”) I noticed increased interest and myself became really interested in what other people have been using the libraries for. I’m often getting feedback from people about issues and how-to’s, but I didn’t quite know what the big wide world is up to with them. So in summer I reached out to existing users and posted a public call for submission to create a community showreel of projects realised with the libraries so far.

Edited in a non-stop 24h session, I’m really happy with the result & seeing these projects together in one piece gave me an immense buzz, but see for yourself!

We will be attempting to do another one of these later this year, so if you have built anything cool with any of the library packages you’d want to contribute, please do get in touch here, via email, flickr, vimeo or twitter.