for more, see “A Depth-Data-Driven Brand Experience”

These are excerpts or recordings of moments while I was working. In some cases, they’re terrible accidents.

This video was developed for three purposes. One: to help convey a concept for a brand interaction splash to the client. The thought is that this could be used as a bumper before an application that uses this technology starts up (Not this video, the real thing). Two: to show how the brand identity can be extended. More appropriately, this motion concept redefined the identity itself. Three: this also acted as an early technical planning guide. It turned out to be amazingly useful in this way. It not only helped my formulate my architecture, but also helped me describe the steps that I would likely need to take to the directors. This is a exactly why after effects is such a fundamental part of my work.

Last winter, I began working on a functional prototype. The following is a compilation of the process. I used cinder and many principles from various contributors all of whom I hope I’ve properly cited.

Part I – Front-End

Part II – Input

Part III – Shaders

Part IV – Afterthoughts

After much avoidance of adding another language to the learning list, I am biting the bullet on max/msp. The reasons of knowing it completely outweigh from-scratch development if you intend to interface with Ableton Live or even use msp to create standalone anything for audio. But, for me and my specific interests, this would be a pointless avenue without a way to also interface with java somehow for the visual stuff. Unfortunately, since processing uses the Applet, I have not found a way to integrate processing and I have a feeling it cannot be done. However here is my success using Java2d. which by the way, toxiclibs is built to be independent from PApplet so we can still use that in conjunction with Java2d.

here’s my first time at toying with all this stuff.
maxbar.zip

inside you will find a max patch and another zip called java classes. unzip java classes and place them in the classes folder under your max5 runtime cycling ’74/java/classes directory

now you can just run the patch in max5 runtime and you will see a button. click the button, not the toggle. sorry it’s not stupid proof but the toggle is for nothing. the button should start a new jframe. now change the number input and you should see the response in the jframe. that’s it! you can change the input to be whatever you want as long as it outputs floating point numbers to the external. and the 100 at the end is a maximum so java can normalize the input.

here’s the java source. it’s really easy.
maxbar_src.zip

3 classes. the max object, the jframe and the jpanel, which hosts the graphics2d stuff. you will also see a p5 class in there. ignore that unless you have an answer to something i didn’t.

good luck! i hope this helps somebody.

went to monterey bay aquarium last weekend. it was completely worth the trip.

I’ve spent a good deal of time learning how to work with openGL the last couple days. I’ve managed to improve performance pretty dramatically with just a few lines and added parameters. It seems that openGL is severely stunted in processing regarding capabilities, so we’ll see what happens. :/

details and experimentation with curves and color (distance correlative).