motion graphics reel
video:
processing:
gameOne
audioReactiveOne
braitenbergFlock
color patterns
feedback example
prime music
framebuffer experiment
discs
agents
backbuffer circles
pattern animator
bouncing circles
perlin dots
perlin vines
perlin bands
I finally made some headway in producing a game concept I have been thinking about for a while. Its my modified version of a game mechanic that has been around for a while. I saw an implementation of the same mechanic in a mini game in Time Splitters 2 that I liked. I reproduced the vector feel of the mini game and changed the flat landscape from that one into a circular one, a planet. I've tried to code something like this many times without a lot of success.
I stumbled across Kokoromi's call for submissions for consideration in GAMMAIV shortly after starting again on my coding. The deadline, which was less than a week away, gave me enough motivation to finish.
It also caused me to produce some pretty messy code, though I am satisfied with what I accomplished in that short time. I used this method to rotate my points and simple multiplication for the zoom as opposed to the built in Processing transforms which tend to confuse me. A lot of sin and cos were used for gravity, thrust, etcetera including this little gem I found somewhere -- sin(pangle-angle2) -- to compare angles without wrapping problems. This code on Processing Hacks handles collisions.
It was suggested that the games be kept secret until they were exhibited or until we got word they were not selected. Check out the other non-selected games currently being collected in this forum post.
Tonight I'm "going live" with an update to my main site (which is what you are looking at right now, hopefully, after being redirected from r6753.blogspot.com) which contains all my new work. Since creating the new site I haven't got around to doing a lot of Processing but I have uploaded a new sketch in honor of the big update.
It may not seem like a big update, but it was quite a pain. This site (accessible via http://r6753.com although it is currently at http://studentpages.scad.edu/~rbraue20) now pulls my posts from Blogspot. I'm using Magpie which in turn uses a PHP library called Snoopy that acts like a web browser usable inside scripts. Snoopy gets the feed and Magpie formats it for display. I'm not sure if its the best solution as the project looks a little run down but it seems to work okay so far. It seems to lag behind a little on the updating with new posts. I don't know how its cache system works and its not to well documented.
Worked on some little things on the site today and added to the RSS to make it more compliant. The dates on the RSS are approximate upload dates. Last time I put up new work I uploaded a batch of stuff I had done in the previous couple of months. Now my RSS thing reads the "last modified" dates on the files, so I just touched them with times a minute apart in the order I wanted.
I've been trying to work on a project that is more extensive than my usual explorations so I could maybe learn some new Java stuff. I hope to have it up sometime in the near future.
about:
This site is a showcase of experimental work done in the pursuit of software and design literacy. All original work is by me, Rick Brauer. An effort has been made to make the site cross browser compatible and valid. It seems to look and act nearly the same in the browsers I've tested it in (IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3) and it's nearly valid. If you have any problems or suggestions don't hesitate to contact me. Web development was done with JEdit, some notepad, and EasyPHP. You can view the source of the site with embedded CSS and PHP. The site is hosted at http://studentpages.scad.edu/~rbraue20/. I hope to get the domain pointed at an IP address at some point instead of using GoDaddy's masking which uses an iframe.
Processing is a Java framework geared toward artistic people and beginning programmers. Until further notice, all the Processing sketches on this site were developed and tested on a system with a single AMD Opteron 240 (1.4Ghz) with 512Mb of RAM AMD Phenom 965 and 4Gs of DDR3.
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Collaboration? Commission? Job Offer? Contact me at r6753.com@gmail.com for any reason.