In which tributes are made, music is heard and a creature is born

John Whitney Tribute

I tried to create three sections that each looked like something from a John Whitney animation, although my results may have been a bit stark compared to his. I decided against using color as I liked the contrast of just having white on black.

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Creature

This curious fellow swims around the mouse, pecking at, but never becomes completely comfortable with it.
The back and forth motion is achieved by taking the angle from the head to the mouse, moving forward as per xeno, defining two points at 90 degrees in either direction from that point, and placing the head at a point between the two based on the current result of sine(ofGetElapsedTimef). This middle point is also run through some sine wave manipulation which gets the teasing motion.

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Creature with CV

In the interest of creating projects that could be displayed in interesting ways throughout the 12th floor space, I tried rigging up my creature to use the openCV library and have it investigate people as they walk by. Right now he mostly goes after my tummy (maybe he has a fetish), so it needs a bit of work, but he does go after people, so that much is good, and a different light environment may solve that problem. It also automatically retakes the background every so often to attempt to deal with varied conditions of the room.

I could not get ofxOpenCv working with the new version of openFrameworks, though, so this was written with the old one.

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Audio/Video Synthesis

This uses a 30 second clip from The Past Is A Grotesque Animal by Of Montreal. The keyboard solo always made me think of a path rushing through the ground in a manic, frenzied way, so I tried to run with that. The videos I got of it are either of the absolute worst quality, or were simply too big to upload, so I'm just going to offer the app if you want to check it out. The path will be random each time it is run.

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Natural Phenomenon using Sin

Here is my tornado, using sin and cos to figure out where the object should be. Press any key to reveal the frame of the tornado.

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