saw these at a nearby Anthropologie thought they were super cool. Reminds me of a project I worked on awhile back, Fungi. I really would love to revisit this project and try something new.
Here are some more attempts to create a generative stipple filter. The idea here is to find the outlines of shapes in the image. I think that I can use this data to create bounds for particles and stipple points.
Been doing some testing to find the flow of pixels in portraits. Above are a few attempts to find vectors in pixels based on surrounding pixels. In video this is achieved by simple comparing current frames to previous frames then calculating the velocity of the different pixels. Here I want to find the general flow of pixels through the image. The goal is to then have particles stream through the image to generate a representation of the image, some type of generative stipple drawing.
See large image here
Original Einstein image here
Original Obama image here
One of the best parts of winter is sledding. A bunch of us went out to a golf course in Newton to tear up the slopes. Of course we need to make the biggest jump possible, never grow up.
My friend Kyle has a built an app the tweets every 140 charters he types twitter.com/keytweeter. I thought this was interesting so I built an app to pull his twitter down and visualize the most popular key. Unfortunately twitter only allows you to go 3200 tweets back via paging. So the picture about is Kyle’s last 3200 tweets. Looks like E is the popular letter. I could have just wikied it but this was much more fun.
I just ran the app on just numbers interesting results. Its very linear with zero being the most popular.
Just finished a project with Ryan and Brad for the MassDOT developers challenge. They release data of the card swipes for a 24 hour period. The three of us in about 5 days created posters visualizing the trains traffic on all the MBTA lines. The conference was yesterday and we ended up winning second place. Read more about the project here.
The project was a collaborative effort between:
Todd Vanderlin
Ryan Habbyshaw
Brad Simpson
