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Testing various papers for holding essential oil scents for a smell-based adventure game; each paper sample received 2 large drops of the oil and were then held in a plastic bag overnight to infuse. Smell was subjectively tested 24 hours and 5 days later.

Smell is rated 0-5, where 0 = virtually no smell and 5 = overwhelming.

Sorting an image’s pixels spirally from left to right, outside to inside.

Three head-mounted Kinect experiments:

1. Rendering only every 5px horizontally
2. Doing some feedback trails and hand-tracking
3. A 3d ball inserted into the Kinect’s 3d space (with the eventual hope of making it bounce in that space)

All three written in Processing.

A still from some experiments in Processing for the design of an upcoming publication; inadvertently resulting in a video (currently crunching).  Tons of polygons with copier-toner texture, overlapping to create weird mesh glitchiness.

Something approximating success!

Some experiments that will (ultimately) become cyanotypes later this week…

Continuing experiments for a camera project; the above images are captured by a 35mm SLR lens, projecting onto frosted plexiglass, and picked up by a cheap webcam.  The top is a toolbox across my studio, the bottom a fluke image captured when opening the box the assembly was housed in.

Experiment in Processing using random quads.

Source:

void setup() {

  size(800, 800);
  noStroke();
  smooth();
  background(0);

  for (int i=0; i<1000; i++) {

    fill(int(random(0,255)), int(random(0,255)));

    int c1w = int(random(0,width));
    int c1h = int(random(0,height)); 
    int c2w = int(random(0,width));
    int c2h = int(random(0,height));
    int c3w = int(random(0,width));
    int c3h = int(random(0,height));
    int c4w = int(random(0,width));
    int c4h = int(random(0,height));    

    quad(c1w,c1h, c2w,c2h, c3w,c3h, c4w,c4h);
  }
}