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yconst
aab - engineering aesthetics?
Sep 17th, 2009, 7:31am  
aab - Processing is a remake of an old program I built a while ago.
It is an automatic composer of forms vaguely and loosely reminiscent of engineering aesthetics.

The program simply assumes a solid rectangular volume which it recursively and randomly subdivides in parallel planes (like an L-System) or grids, removing random volumes in the process.

http://prototy.blogspot.com

Please tell me what you think!
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Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou
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lubuativilux
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #1 - Sep 17th, 2009, 10:26am  
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Jack Perkins
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #2 - Sep 20th, 2009, 2:25am  
This is excellent. I'd love to see more options, or even animation of the sections.
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yconst
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #3 - Sep 21st, 2009, 6:46am  
Jack,

Thanks for your comment. Adding more options regarding subdivision is a fairly easy task which I am thinking of adding for the next release. Animation, although a great idea, is a little bit tougher, since during the subdivision the intermediate tree structure that holds the divided volumes is not maintained. However, I would like to explore this possibility in the future (a new release maybe?)

Thanks again.

Gian Chatz
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Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou
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yconst
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #4 - Sep 23rd, 2009, 11:58am  
In my blog I uploaded a few renders of arrangements composed by aab, just to give the main idea.

http://prototy.blogspot.com

Gian Chatz
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Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou
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yconst
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #5 - Nov 4th, 2009, 8:20pm  
A new release of aab is on my blog:

http://prototy.blogspot.com

You can also find an applet version here:

xconst.freeshell.org/applets/aab/

Please note that in the online version you cannot export compositions.

Comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

Cheers.
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Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou
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ps
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #6 - Nov 6th, 2009, 9:17am  
cool stuff on the screenshots!

i'm gonna check it out Smiley
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NoahBuddy
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #7 - Nov 22nd, 2009, 4:53pm  
To quote a certain cat online: "It's beautiful..."

It reminds me of 'urban decay'. Looks like war game cities could be made from these.
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yconst
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #8 - Nov 23rd, 2009, 9:49am  
Thank you for your comments and suggestions.

@NoahBuddy: I'm very glad you liked it. aab was actually developed as a generator of abstract sci-fi backdrops initially.
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Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou
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Giles
Re: aab - engineering aesthetics?
Reply #9 - Nov 23rd, 2009, 10:31am  
I enjoyed playing with this - it activates the imagination. I saw some cool buildings, and some radical pieces of furniture appearing!
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