Some Random Dude

I truly am loving how I can take a piece of code and begin to have it exist in various mediums. This experiment was actually posted to my Vimeo account quite a while ago, but I wanted to output this project as a vector piece as well. I actually think my previous project would be ended up as a good candidate for vector output as well - I may go back and add that at a later time. This project was just another test on playing with motion preceding my knowledge of the noise() method. Looking back, a similar look in motion could have been achieved with far fewer lines of code. Nonetheless, I think the final result ended up being quite nice.

I hope to continue to have the time to post these projects. I feel as though I am (slowly) getting a grasp on how this whole Processing thing works. My goal is to cross-pollinate any future Processing projects with Flash/Flex projects. I have a few ideas on how that may just happen.

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I think this Processing itch of mine is going to stick. I am still learning the basics, but what I love about Processing is that amazing things can still be achieved with little experience or overheard. I whipped this up a few nights back - all motion is based on sine/cosine computations. Unfortunately, the video encoding just killed the aesthetics of this sketch. Source code is below the jump.

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Buddies and colleagues of mine told me years ago to get into Processing - to which I never did. Well, I finally hunkered down and began to fiddle with it. I should have done it years ago. Because it’s Java-based, there a plethora of libraries to make things which would otherwise be impossible to do in Flash extremely easy. For myself, the simple ability to output to an image sequence or Quicktime file sealed it for me. Below is the first sketch I did in Processing - comprised of a little more than 30 lines of code.

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