ma computer arts


| applications for audio & video | computing principles for artists | experimental digital media
| interactive & immersive virtual art | major project |
10 Aug 06

Quartz Composer Video Matrix  

Cat.: research, multimedia

Here’s a screenshot of a demo patch that tiles an image (still or video) onto a user selected number of tiles. The tiles can be fixed or animated. The patch is now downloadable from daisyrust.com

direct link: quartz composer video matrix

Quartz Composer Screenshot 001 Thumbnail

18 May 06

Texturisr - Quartz Composer Prototype  

Cat.: computing principles for artists

A prototype Quartz Composer patch displaying an image returned from flickr with the search “bed-bunny”. Displayed in quartz composer. You can download the patch below. Please read the following posts for additional information and the PHP source code. More info is available in the source code comments:
link: basic wireless telematics sms and the web
link: texturisr […]

16 May 06

Quasi-Wireframe 3D in Quartz Composer  

Cat.: interactive and immersive virtual art, research, 3D

As part of exploring whether a Lindenmayer system (l-system - see link: L-system - Wikipedia) is possible in Apple’s Quartz Composer (link: Introduction to Quartz Composer Programming Guide, I have produces a number of sketches.
Quartz Composer is a visual programming environment allowing access to a lot of the graphic capabilities of what Apple calls ‘core […]

Acoustic Ecology and the Ear to the Earth Festival  

Cat.: applications for audio & video, research

My creative applications for audio and video project has two main strands:
(1) a visual element exploring images of the Earth from space as mediated through publicly available photo and video sources. I will play with visual echoes and puns, composed in response to…
(2) an original soundtrack/composition generated from real seismographic data and samples […]

Data glove research  

Cat.: interactive and immersive virtual art, interaction design, 3D

I am interested in building a data glove from scratch but components and the equipment are expensive.
Essential Reality’s P5 gaming glove is inexpensive and has infra-red roll/pitch sensors and five flex sensors on each finger.
A significant development community exists exploring experimental usage and maintaining drivers and other interfaces.
Links
Simulus - P5 Glove Developments
SVN repository for libp5glove/trunk/
Create […]

07 Apr 06

assessment 1 - downloads available  

Cat.: applications for audio & video, assessments

Documents are available for the proposal / essay and the presentation for assessment 1.

Download Essay PDF (3.34MB)
Link: ellington.tvu.ac.uk/ma/assessment/caav/1_video_and_audio_applications_essay_ian_grant.pdf

Download Presentation PDF (843k)
Link: ellington.tvu.ac.uk/ma/assessment/caav/1_video_and_audio_presentation_ian_grant.pdf

04 Apr 06

Generator.x » 2005 » July  

Cat.: about, applications for audio & video, modules

elaborate site exploring computation and generative art work and design.
link: Generator.x » 2005 » July

16 Mar 06

drafts available for digital puppetry project  

Cat.: major project, research

Admin: Here are the PDF files detailing the initial stages of the major project. With time, I can separate the items into blog posts but for the time being, here is the full research document and the presention slides.
proposal pdf link (1.52 mb):
http://ellington.tvu.ac.uk/ma/wp-content/pdf/major_project_proposal.pdf
presentation pdflink (2.76 mb):
http://ellington.tvu.ac.uk/ma/wp-content/pdf/digital_puppetry_presentation.pdf

major project  

Cat.: modules, major project

initial proposal - major project - digital puppetry  

Cat.: modules, major project, research

project details

project title
Objet Petit Autre: an exploration in digital puppetry

aims

To perform narratives with automata and digital puppetry.
To create an immersive virtual reality artefact using video projection into model-space and explore secondary video-projection of the same model-space [clarity!].
To create an installation that has some component of computer control / automation.

The installation will seek to explore the […]