Happy holidays!! I made an interactive greeting card for the new year … it animates some snowflakes made out of letters when you wiggle around the mouse. The source is written in Processing.
It feels good to write some code after a semester of mostly print-based work. I hope I can make some more time for work like this in 2009.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks with class projects, but I’ve been spending a fair amount of time on E15, too. Last week Tak helped me finish up some of the navigation code for E15, so now we can move through the 3D environment with six degrees of freedom — and I can focus on more visual work.
I wrote a script that uses text to draw a 2D image from a file. As I was developing and testing the script, I used an image of some orchids and repeated the same text for every pixel in the image:
Using the same text for every "pixel" created the uniform effect in the above image, but using a different string for every pixel made the texture a little more varied. To try this out, I used some strings generated from my del.icio.us bookmarks, although it wasn’t quite enough data to fill out the whole image:
And a view from inside the 3D image, where there’s lots of illegible text:
I know, there’s not really a relationship between the orchid picture and my del.icio.us links. I’ll probably try out a few more sketches that relate the image and data a little better, but this’ll probably end up just being a little aesthetic exercise.