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popol
spore
Jul 5th, 2006, 12:07am  
hi!
i'm not a programmer so please don't make to complicated  explanation Smiley
I just want to ask some question, i would like to know if we can reproduce the following picture and animation within processing.
http://imagesavant.com/index.html

http://imagesavant.com/images-720/tn16-720.0022.jpg
http://imagesavant.com/images-800/SolaAgitate038Ev1.0300.jpg
http://imagesavant.com/images-800/f6-camzoom-226B.0001.jpg
http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/solmovie1.mov
http://imagesavant.com/images-affine/r2-v1+2A-x4-720.0134.jpg
http://imagesavant.com/quicktime/r2-v3-x4-exp.86.mov

Image Savant is a fine art studio located in Hollywood, California, owned and operated by me, Richard "dr." Baily. My primary focus is digital fx animation, but occasionally I compose music, paint, and write.

SPORE is an ongoing software/aesthetic development project that has grown out of a proprietary ultra-high speed particle renderer which runs on Irix, Linux, and OSX. All the images on page 1 and 2 are stills from animations, and some of these stills are constructed with over 1 billion particles.

Ultimately, the goal is to build a living system that will breed and evolve designs and animations that I would never have dreamed of, and could not produce by any other means.

I have assembled two galleries that illustrate the current state of these new "genetic" experiments. The renderings are fairly low-rezz and grainy, but I believe that you will be as fascinated by these pictures as I am. Examples of some of these new image classes can be found here:
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toxi
Re: spore
Reply #1 - Jul 5th, 2006, 1:15pm  
popol wrote on Jul 5th, 2006, 12:07am:
Image Savant is a fine art studio located in Hollywood, California, owned and operated by me, Richard "dr." Baily. My primary focus is digital fx animation, but occasionally I compose music, paint, and write.


Erm... I really don't quite know how to react to this above statement, since either...

a) I've just entered a parellel universe
b) this is (you are) a lame joke(r)

http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Baily.htm
http://www.cgchannel.com/news/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=5119

please advice!
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TomC
Re: spore
Reply #2 - Jul 5th, 2006, 1:54pm  
Mmm... sad links.

I assume everything after the links in the orginal post is a quote from somewhere?  At least put "" around it!

Answer: yes, you could make images and movies like that using Processing.  BUT... not many people in the whole world are able to make images like that Sad  A few people have done similar things with Processing (myself included) but not even remotely as polished or on such a scale.  

It takes many years to get such results I think. Don't let that stop you from trying though - Processing is probably the best language to use if you're learning code from the beginning.
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davbol
Re: spore
Reply #3 - Jul 7th, 2006, 7:12pm  
Just some guesses, but...

He describes it as a particle system.  So it's just millions (if not billions) of dots that accumulate into the final image.  The hard part, or trick, in such a system is finding an "interesting" way to position/move the particles.

Many of his images resemble attractors, so you might search for fractal-related algorithms, or iterated function systems.  He also mentions that he played with Scott Drave's "flame" algorithm, see:  http://www.flam3.com

The "lit" quality of his images suggests that particles are rendered transparently in an additive manner.  Here's a bit of my work that renders in that way and has a similar "lit" quality:  http://www.davebollinger.com/works/scrawl

His renderer may also have an "bloom" post-processing step to spread out bright areas into adjacent pixels.  Imagine a gaussian blur on an intensity channel for instance.  (you can calculate such an intensity value by tracking how many times any particle lands on the same pixel and build up a histogram of hits, then blur that histogram, then apply to brighness channel)
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JohnG
Re: spore
Reply #4 - Jul 7th, 2006, 7:52pm  
I think they're probably related to chaotic attractors. I know they bear a resemblance to some stuff I've done (though my stuff is nowhere near as pretty, http://picasaweb.google.com/MrHomicide/ChaoticIcons), with slowly changing parameters to get the smooth movement etc.
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metaphorz
Re: spore
Reply #5 - Jul 8th, 2006, 12:14am  
Take a look at Chaoscope:

http://www.btinternet.com/~ndesprez/index.htm

The search for really good ones can involve
different optimization methods (inc. genetic
search), but an unusually large portion of
parameter space is chock full of goodies.
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davbol
Re: spore
Reply #6 - Jul 14th, 2006, 8:46pm  
Here's an early experiment that to me seems a bit Spore-ish:
http://www.davebollinger.com/works/fungi/
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Salt and Onion
Re: spore
Reply #7 - Aug 6th, 2006, 10:30am  
man this is sad news, I met him once before at a party... really cool guy.
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Salt and Onion
Re: spore
Reply #8 - Aug 6th, 2006, 10:30am  
I meant about richard bailey's passing
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