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Month: May 2005
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More Notes…
Public photography becoming “illegal” in the US, via Copyfight :
Watch Where You Point That Camera.
When public places are out of bounds, and homes are flooded with device-disabling watermarked media, I suppose that will just leave nature as a free subject for representation. Unless “Monsanto” start policing the visual likenesses of their crops, or the colours you capture are too close to a trademarked hue.
In balance, some sanity:
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Kollabor8
Via Eyebeam :
http://kollabor8.toegristle.com/
Collaborative image streams. Yes, yes, yes. Now for an SVG (and/or XCF) version:
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paintr: explain yourself
This image is derived from Anamarie by rogue drone, and is therefore licensed under a Creative Commons License
How I made this image.
I found a palette at colr called Scheme 6536
with the following tags: red. And searched for them on flickr.
I found this image on flickr: Anamarie by rogue drone (which had these tags: sister, baby, red, anamarie) and I traced that using autotrace.
I then applied the colr palette to the autotraced flickr picture in my own unique way, and that’s this image.
I hope you like it!
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Programming Environments
Processing is now at version 0.9, heading for a 1.0 release.
Context Free is an excellent shape grammar system.
Open Sound World is a more colourful PD.
And finally a more standard language:
PHP has surprised me with its simplicity and power. If you know Perl, C or JavaScript it’s a no-brainer to learn.
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paintr: First Results
Output from paintr running as a local application:
paintr is not explaining itself very well at the moment, but that’s palette “Scheme 6549” from colr with the tags “olive forest” applied to an image from flickr called “Buy more bovril!” by kid for today, licensed CC-BY-SA-2.0.Learning PHP was very easy, it’s a Perly/Javascripty kinda language. And I’m amazed how quickly I’ve developed paintr in it. I wrote the scraper for colr, and there is a goof PHP API framework for flickr called Phlickr. autotrace is by shell calls, and I’m not even using WordNet yet. I need to decide whether to go for features or access first. I think it might be good to get this online sooner rather than later.
As well as Cohen’s “Off The Shelf”, I’m now thinking about Charles Harrison talking about observing the letter of Modernism rather than its spirit. And Warhol because of how it works. And, because of the subject matter paintr has chosen(!) here, Hockney. 🙂
It would be good if I could find web services for: an ontology, autotrace, and possibly file conversion. Doing things locally is so passe!
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Chris Ashley Before HTML
It’s always good to see people’s work before they moved into code (Harold Cohen for example), and Chris’s physical media work doesn’t disappoint. You can see how his wonderful HTML work emerged from his core artistic concerns:
http://www.chrisashley.net/weblog/archives/cat_art_object.html
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Brain Damage Can Change Artistic Style
Which we already knew, but this is new research. Via Mindhacks:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050516/hl_afp/healthneurologyart_050516230927
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KR -> KE
(Wark: representation -> expression.
Knowledge representation -> knowledge expression.)
Knowledge representation -> knowledge expression.)
paintr (nee Artomator)
Inspired by autodrawn and in response to Harold Cohen’s “Off The Shelf“.
Colour handling from Cohen’s “Colouring Without Seeing“.
I’m going to do this in PHP.
Inspired by autodrawn and in response to Harold Cohen’s “Off The Shelf“.
Colour handling from Cohen’s “Colouring Without Seeing“.
I’m going to do this in PHP.
The procedure is:
Get colour palette from colr.
Expand colour name tags using wordnet.
Find matching image at flickr.
Posterise and autotrace image to SVG (autotrace).
Sort colours by brightness.
Choose light-to-dark or dark-to-light.
Add background colour box?
Colour image.
Serve as SVG.
Add log of concept expansion and matching as text (colour names, tags, wordnet expansion, flickr search string, matches, choice)