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Philipp

breathpad
Jun 14^th, 2005, 8:18pm

After seeing Kyle McDonald's lovely piece "Empathy" (http://rpi.edu/~mcdonk/code/empathy), I've been spending the afternoon tinkering with the dynamics between fields of vectors.

http://www.repeatwhiletrue.com/breathpad
this is the result. basically, the mouse cursor movement sets vectors in a rotating motion which in turn influence their neighboring vectors. The speed of the cursor varies the effect. Clicking and dragging will paint additional red spots depending on cursor speed.

This uses the vector library of Michael Chang at
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~mflux

mflux

Re: breathpad
Reply #1 - Jun 14^th, 2005, 8:49pm

Very nice
However, empathy eventually goes back to a rest state, where yours doesn't. Just a comparison, since you began it.

I'm not a big fan of your yellow color there. It would have been great just as black and white.

The motion going through is pretty nice and fluid, however if its affects carried out more (touch one side, it's felt on the other side) then it would be even better :]

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Markavian Full Member Offline Posts: 174	Re: breathpad Reply #2 - Jun 15^th, 2005, 12:15pm I really like the effect you can produce. The mix of black and yellow makes like little explosions. The red rrag didn't have a permanent effect as I thought it would. On my slightly sluggish computer the mouse response isn't that frequent. If I move my mouse very quickly I end up 'nuking' the whole image.

Philipp

Re: breathpad
Reply #3 - Jun 15^th, 2005, 2:50pm

Thanks very much for the feedback!

I was citing empathy more as an inspiration than as an aim or something I wanted to copy. The idea was more like "this person does something beautiful with an array of vectors that respond to mouse input - let's make an array of vectors with different behaviour and see what we can come up with!"... But yeah, I opened the sketch up to comparison by mentioning it. :)

I started out with black and white and added color later on. I personally like the yellow quite a bit but I'm on a laptop that tends to undersaturate colors, so what I see may also differ from what you are seeing.

I can twiddle with some parameters in order to spread the motion farther but the way things are set up, this will also upset the balance of colors and the time things take to settle down. I definitely agree that the sketch could improve by making it more sensitive over larger distances.

There's room for optimisation. My computer reacts quite fluently, but it would be nice to have the program run in fullscreen, so I might go over the code again and see what I can do sometime soon.

kaelle

Re: breathpad
Reply #4 - Oct 17^th, 2005, 6:18pm

Breathpad and empathy are equally quite beautiful,

for breathpad is it possible to have a series of colours called up in sequence-or random- when clicking/dragging; red first click, purple second click,,,so on

i would like to beable to use vector drawings in my processing experiments.. can i use vector drawings from illustrator/flash what file extention would they need to be? size? res?

im only just starting out with processing... I can make a few thing move about...

"I have never failed I've just found 10 000 ways that did not work"&&Albert Einstein

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