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Some Symmetry

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:26:39 +0000

OF Lab Breda

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:41:38 +0000

Zach Lieberman and I held an ofLab in the Netherlands for the graphic design festival, GDFB. The lab was centered around the intersection of visual design and custom software. Participants developed new tools for programmers and designers – with the final output to print. The work was then exhibited at one of the festivals galleries. Watch the documentation video created by the GDFB.

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Graphic Design Festival Breda
openFrameworks
video made by GDFB

Sketch Range Filter

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:52:45 +0000

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.

Portrait Pixel Flow

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:49:13 +0000

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

First Grass Renders

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:00:30 +0000

Here are some first grass attempts for a piece I’m working on. There are 4,096 blades of grass with about 15 circular segments per blade. The are built with VBO’s running at about 50fps. I would love to get a few more FPS with some optimization.

watch HD here

Diggin 3D Worms

Todd Vanderlin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:43:09 +0000

Working on some grass for a piece I’m working on. This is my first time generating 3d geometry for a worm/grass. Oh man this is fun.

Number 9

Todd Vanderlin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:01:51 +0000

Working on some contour following with various forces. Hudge help with Dan Shiffman’s path following examples :)

Colors & Physics

Todd Vanderlin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:05:54 +0000

I built a simple little app for Ryan to build piles of particles with applied physics. After creating desired grouping he could then export a vector file for composting in a illustration. I started to play around with the app and bringing it into to Illustrator, this lead me to ExtendScript. This reminded me of scriptographer awhile back but way more stable. Basically with ExtendScript you have complete control of the abode Suite. I did some simple little test with the swatch pallet. I went through every item in the document an colored it based on the size using the swatches in my pallet. This was a ton of fun especially when using Kuler. My friend Drew is doing a ton of amazing work with ExtendScript and OF. He has some great tutorials on his site. Here are some of my outputs.

AR Scratching

Todd Vanderlin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:22:39 +0000

I was playing around with some AR markers the other day and came up with this idea. taking just a plain old vinyl record and attaching an AR marker to the label you can track the record in 3D space. The next question was, can you scratch the record? So by figuring out the velocity of the records rotation and applying it to the payback of the audio you can scratch. There is some digital noise that needs to bee worked out, but sounds pretty good. Its still really hard to scratch, it takes some practice but is super fun. The next step is to figure out some nice triggers for different modes. I like the idea of not needing a turntable but the actual spinning of the record helps with the scratching and playback. I made a couple modes, one where the record is paused and you can just scratch through the song. The other looks for zero velocity for x time and then continues on with the song. If there is velocity you then are scratching and the audio is affected. I think that this project has some legs can't wait to play more. more photos

Contour

Todd Vanderlin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:29:25 +0000

I used box2d to create a shape out of the contour of the body. There are still some some bugs that I’m trying to work out. Initially the shapes were only colliding with the interior of the contour but simple reversing the points solved that. Some shapes are still being push through but I think I have some ideas to solve this, maybe create fixed shapes inside the contour. Despite the somewhat slow playback of the video due to snapzpro the speed is great. More to come.

Mounds

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:46:40 +0000

These are mounds. They wiggle and wobble and don’t like to have things on top of them.

Plants Attack

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:03:41 +0000

Working on some behaviors for plants. When the mouse gets close enough a stem will jump out a take a nibble, then retract for a rest. I want to get the movement a bit more accurate. I’m finding it hard to move objects in box2d without directly changing the position, which then destroys collisions.

Some Plants

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:53:53 +0000

Fluid Arrows

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:30:23 +0000

Some fun fluid arrows

Soft Bodies

Todd Vanderlin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:22:37 +0000

Working on some soft bodies using box2d. They are working well, but sometimes will break when joints cross over. I might be able to add some more cross joints to help keep the shape. They are super fun check out the video.

iPhoto Averaged

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:35:16 +0000

I’m working on a project were I load every image from my computer and average the pixels. I want to find the universal pixel and image of the computer. In my head I thought this would would be a very interesting set of colors. For instance if you were a photographer you would have a very beautiful array of color. But is you were an accountant your color array would be bland. In my first test I average all the pixels in iPhoto and blaaa, its brown, what a bummer, nothing pretty. I have some other ideas, hope I can find something interesting.

Future of Books

Todd Vanderlin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:05:16 +0000

This was so beautiful, I want to make one of these that plays iTunes or something. via Make

Amazing Roots

Todd Vanderlin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:52:28 +0000

I loved these plant sculptures, the complexity in the roots are amazing. I want to build a project based around these roots. via

We need more benches

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:01:55 +0000

I love this Bench!

Forces

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:44:19 +0000

Working on some new particles for some drawings. The first image all the particles are fighting for the middle. In the second image the particles are teetering between to attraction particles.

Framed Drawing

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:27:35 +0000

I gave a friend of mine a piece from the drawing machine. Looks great framed.
Photo by: Joe Krikava

Average Logo

Todd Vanderlin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:40:06 +0000

An average of all the logos that I used to train the haar file.

Tara Donovan

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:40:46 +0000

Dani and I went to a new show at the ICA, Tara Donovan. It was really an amazing show I would love to see the process on how the pieces are built. It made you so inspired to go out and make something. If you are in the area you really should go and see it. more photos here.

Black Friday

Todd Vanderlin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:13:50 +0000

Coolest shoes ever!

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:32:38 +0000

These are the coolest shoes that I have ever seen in my life. I want some. More here.

Air Art

Todd Vanderlin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:17:09 +0000

This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a bit.

Subway Machine

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:41:26 +0000

Love this

ARS-elicious

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:09:30 +0000

We made it and to say the least WOW, this is wild. We have been working like crazy coding up a storm. We have some of the best brains under one roof, its a it scary to see what will happen. There is still a ton of work to get done but its getting there.
Ryans had a good photo stream going.

Cognitive Resonance

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:06:54 +0000

My good friend Josh Goldberg organized a great event this weekend. The name of the night was Cognitive Resonance, the venue was Monkey Town in Brooklyn. I performed with Dave Della Costa, he built his sound live using SuperCollider and I built and application coded with openFrameworks.

The app load a series of type images that I created. They are analyzed in realtime in order to fide the whole words and then each individual letter. I created many particle system that react to the each letter. I hope to work on the piece some more and do more of these events. Thanks Josh for getting this together, next stop Boston.

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see all photos here

Kids & Interaction

Todd Vanderlin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:55:24 +0000

We had some kids come in today, they got to see what we do and try out some of the toys. You can learn a ton watching kids interact with this table. It was amazing watching them learn how to use the table with no explanation. They would teach each other as they figured out new features. I have a ton of new ideas to take from this.

Some particle experiments

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:11:42 +0000

check out the HD ones here & here.
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Flow

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:12:21 +0000

This is a rough example of flocking and obstacle avoidance. The creatures will ovoid the contours of any shape that is on the table. They also follow the rules of flocking separation, alignment, cohesion. Read more about Boids here.

Bubbles

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:23:20 +0000

We made bubbles with awesome colors. The video is going a bit fast though. ha

OCaml for Scientists

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:43:33 +0000

I want to get this book. “Learn one of the world’s most popular functional programming languages, with hundreds of awesome examples covering everything from simple numerical analysis to sophisticated real-time 3D visualisation using OpenGL. ” link

Multitouch

Todd Vanderlin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:15:05 +0000

Video of the multitouch prototype. You can touch and push particles around.

Hillary Obama Table

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:57:46 +0000

Hillary Obama Table from vanderlin on Vimeo.
Made a candidate table for the primaries here in Boston. Watch the heads bobble. This is the ultimate prop for any candidate to win this election. Don’t forget to vote.

Generative

Todd Vanderlin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:02:36 +0000

New Drawing Machine

Todd Vanderlin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:12:17 +0000

Built a new Drawing Machine at work. This one is long, about 13 feet long. Made some adjustments to the source code. The motors are a some-what smarter. I’m still using brush motors and not stepper motors. If I get some time I’m going to work on portraits.

Urban Trend

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:19:26 +0000

beautiful and funky everyday things. So clever, so cool.

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Triptych

Todd Vanderlin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:43:21 +0000

Beautiful LED installation in Paris. As viewers approach the piece the LED’s react to their movements. Take a look at the video.

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Hudge LEDS

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:47:50 +0000

I want one of these or try to make one. link

Sleep and Music

Todd Vanderlin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:56:53 +0000

Saw this guy when going for a walk last week. A strange array of actions, like it.

Growth

Todd Vanderlin — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:03:05 +0000

A project I’m working on. Here is the first step, the plant life is alive. They follow the the bugs trying their hardest to grab them. Download (mac) the app and try it out. It was built in c++ using openFrameWorks. More to come.

Junk

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:44:05 +0000

I like this photo.

Light Swing

Todd Vanderlin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:02:58 +0000

Such a simple I idea with an amazing effect. Attach a light to a swing and create beautiful arcs of light in the night. Check out the work of BCXSY

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Underwater Art

Todd Vanderlin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:47:37 +0000

Amazing underwater sculpture park created by Jason Taylor. Watch the video it is absolutely beautiful.
“The aim of the Sculpture Park is to create a unique space which highlights environmental processes and celebrates local culture. By creating an artificial reef of sculptures which depict Grenadian peoples and their history, the project fulfills its dual purpose of protecting the marine environment and illustrating the richness of Grenada”.
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RGB

Todd Vanderlin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:25:24 +0000

some renderings from the project idea039 (time-lapse art). New features and content. More to come.

Open City

Todd Vanderlin — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:48:42 +0000

The opening for the Open City show was last night, It is running till April 7. This is a display of some of the most amazing tools for public space and art. If you are in the area you must go see this, you will be inspired.

Adult Swim Ad

Todd Vanderlin — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:23:23 +0000

Fun weekend with ryan, went to a Graffiti show in South Boston. It’s nice to see Boston is getting an underground art scene. We found an Adult Swim LED Ad up on a bridge. So of course I climb up and grab it. It looks like a take on the LED Throwies or Night Writer. Cool stuff though.

See the whole piece up close.

Update:
The maker sent me some info. I guess that interferenceinc.com
were the ones behind it all. Good stuff.
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City On Fire

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:37:53 +0000

City on Fire is a site specific installation created by the Danish artist Thyra Hilden and the Argentinian artist Pio Diaz.

Fluid Clay

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:00:49 +0000

Found this loved the animation.

Punk

Todd Vanderlin — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:29:50 +0000

Wild friends and one hell of a good weekend. Flickr set

Yoke

Todd Vanderlin — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:22:40 +0000

What does a egg really feel and look like. I have been uploading photos that have been on my computer for some time, my flickr is reaching the 2000 mark. There are some good things up there go take a look.

City Paths

Todd Vanderlin — Mon, 15 May 2006 02:44:19 +0000

Just launched a project I did this semester, City Paths. In a way it is a redesign for the project I did last semester Presence. The application works with live or recorded video data. This makes the concept come across much better, and there is much more feedback. Take a look.

O.A.R – B.U Concert

Todd Vanderlin — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:52:15 +0000

O.A.R at Aggnanis Arena, Boston University. This show was so amazing, good crowd good music and a hell of a good time.
Over 7000 people – word on the street the biggest yet.

Set List:
Ladanday Mr Brown Toy Store About An Hour Ago Get Away Conquering Fools		Black Rock Poker Missing Pieces I Feel Home Lay Down Sunday Bloody Sunday		Nasim Joon Hey Girl Delicate Few Encore: Hey Jude

This last photo is Ari Hest, Stephen Kellogg, and O.A.R singing “Hey Jude”.

See all the photos here

Wallpapers:
Marc Roberge Alone 1024 x 768