I was looking for some inspiration a couple of nights ago and found something that is really interesting and relevant to our project. Check out the online version of “Painted by Numbers” from last month’s Wired magazine. One of the featured artists is Casey Reas, who came here as a Manship speaker last semester. Most of the artists use his open source software and are translating data into art in a way that is similar to what we are attempting to do for our project.
My experiment with one of the programs is below.
Words describing sounds are googled as images and re-drawn with a program called Dreamlines that uses “1500 autonomous particles in perpetual movement”. It will make sense when you see it. And it is fun to play with.
my words in order of each row of pictures were:
- songbirds
- pidgeons
- traffic
- clunk-clunk
- rustling leaves sound
- whoosh
- bar sounds
- traffic noise
- traffic sounds
March 30, 2008 at 12:06 am
these are great.
March 30, 2008 at 2:31 am
Dreamlines is so neat – I tried a word associated with my project, too – vines – and it is amazing that the images come back looking like the word you entered…but then i got this strange boxy looking stressed out office dude…weird.
anyway, looks cool. any inspiration from the pix? did any of the forms show any shapes that may help you put visual form into data for your storyboard?
March 31, 2008 at 1:40 pm
it is hard to render sound by 2d graphic. these images with words sound great