Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.

flight404 is a artist with code.
In 2008 there was a radiohead video contest and Robert Hodgin decided to work in a piece.
The Video didn’t won the contect, but it was still a succes online.
You read a the staps about the this procces on the flight404 blog

Or take a look at is video site at vimeo to see more.

A very good learning source about programming language Processing. In my last post about Processing i talked about a the artist Flight404. You can find a lot of his processing work here. Maybe i can be a great motivation to start 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.

Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”. No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes. The engine to make the video is a opensource app made in processing.

Just take a look at it and play around with it

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