Motion Design with Processing
Robert Hodgin (flight404) ; “My main uses for Processing are in the realm of audio visualization. I have made many videos using only Processing with no post production or editing after the fact. This is a bragging point only… it would certainly be more effective to render out a bunch of shorter videos and then piece them together in AE or something similar. But I get great joy out of knowing that I can hit PLAY, walk away for a bit, play some GTA IV, then come back to find a finished piece that has enough randomness built in that when I view it, I feel I am viewing something totally unique and were I to press PLAY again, the next version would be different.”
Robert Hodgin is using Processing for personal entertainment, but he was also involved in the interactive projection wall NextFest Grass Wall by The Barbarian Group and flight404. see this video
The purpose of the installation was to promote the new Saturn hybrid cars. The concept was simple enough: 45 feet of grass swaying in a virtual breeze. Visitors to the installation can make the grass sway just by walking in front of it. Additionally, visitors can input text from either of the two kiosks positioned in front of the screen. This text appears in the projection attached to its own grass blade and sways along with the rest of the scene.