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noun : an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances [syn: concept, conception]; verb 1: make by combining materials and parts [syn: build, make]; verb 2: put together out of components or parts [syn: manufacture, fabricate]; verb 3: draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions, of geometrical figures; verb 4: of past events [syn: reconstruct, retrace]

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Inside I: playing with geometry
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[re:void]

I’ve found no bet­ter words for the work of re:void than these:

But most of all, they dreamt sight.

It began with a pat­tern: a knot­ting and weav­ing of count­less strands, dyed in a hun­dred colours, car­ry­ing a charge of energy which so daz­zled the sleep­ers they had to shield their minds’ eyes.

And then, as if the pat­tern was becom­ing too ambi­tious to hold its present order, the knots began to slide and slip. The colours at each inter­sec­tion bled into the air, until the vision was obscured in a soup of pig­ments through which the loosed strands described their lib­erty in line and comma and dot, like the brush­strokes of some mas­ter cal­lig­ra­pher. At first the marks seemed quite arbi­trary — but as each trace drew colour to itself, and another stroke was laid upon it, and another upon that, it became appar­ent that forms were steadily emerg­ing from the chaos.

Weave­world, Clive Barker

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 22:46. It is filed under Blog, Contribution, Inspiration and tagged with , , , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

12 Responses to “[re:void]”

  1. Gwen Vanhee [re:void] says:
    March 12, 2009 at 09:08

    Thnx for the posting!

  2. ronny ragtroll says:
    April 20, 2009 at 20:43

    these graph­ics are among the coolest abstract visu­als ive seen in years !!!
    Its almost like a dig­i­tal incar­na­tion of Jack­son Pol­lock work

    Is it done with Processing ?

  3. Frederik Vanhoutte says:
    April 20, 2009 at 20:59

    Hi Ronny,

    I totally agree with you. For any info it’s best you con­tact the artist directly. She He’s Gwen Van­hee, author of the first com­ment. Fol­low the link from there: http://www.revoid.be.

    Rgs,

    Fred­erik

  4. ronny ragtroll says:
    April 20, 2009 at 21:33

    a .be web­site ? and your name also sounds bel­gian ? is this a bel­gian Pro­cess­ing com­mu­nity by any chance ? ;-)
    im from East Flanders

  5. Frederik Vanhoutte says:
    April 20, 2009 at 22:05

    Der zit redelijk wat tal­ent in de Vlaan­ders… en ik ben zelf van Brugge ;-)
    Nog een­tje dicht bij huis: http://vormplus.be/

  6. Jan Vantomme says:
    April 21, 2009 at 09:35

    And even more peo­ple from Bel­gium: http://www.introspector.be/

    Some of my stu­dents are play­ing with pro­cess­ing too. We might have a small com­mu­nity here in Belgium.

  7. ronny ragtroll says:
    April 23, 2009 at 20:20

    I won­der how peo­ple ren­der really big pic­tures for high res print­ing, rather than screen dis­play.
    the save() func­tion dumps the screen image to a bitmap file, but since a screen is by far not high­res enough
    for big prints, how is it done prop­erly ? processing.pdf seems to be for vec­tor data rather than bitmap.
    What i need is a way to ren­der real big size pixel image to a file. I couldnt find any exact info for this on teh interwebz.

  8. Gwen Vanhee says:
    April 24, 2009 at 11:46

    Nog een­tje, in gent: http://www.veryinteractivepeople.com

    Werk­jes zijn helaas niet in pro­cess­ing maar in flash.
    En ‘she’ is een ‘he’ ;)

  9. Frederik Vanhoutte says:
    April 24, 2009 at 13:33

    @Gwen: ah, van­daar die geup­date pro­file foto in Flickr. Ik vroeg me al af wie nu pre­cies wat deed ;-) En wat Flash betreft, daar is weinig ‘helaas’ aan. Inte­gen­deel, ik ben daar nu ook mee aan het spe­len en dat is jouw schuld.

    @ronny: the ques­tion of large ren­ders in pro­cess­ing is not new. First of all, as you pointed out, any kind of line draw­ing not using direct pixel manip­u­la­tions (like suc­ces­sive image blur) can be exported as PDF. If your images can’t be prop­erly exported like this you should keep in mind that Pro­cess­ing sketches using the default ren­derer or P3D can be larger than your screen res­o­lu­tion. How much, depends on the mem­ory you allow in the pref­er­ences. I’ve made 10000×15000 images with 1.5Gb allo­cated. How­ever, the view­port itself is lim­ited to your screen res­o­lu­tion. On run­time you only see the upper­left part of the sketch and there’s no scrolling. This means that you can’t directly use mouse input to draw on the hid­den part of the can­vas. But if you use save() or save­Frame() the entire image is saved, not only the part vis­i­ble in the view­port. Solu­tion to the draw­ing prob­lem: use a smaller draw­ing can­vas to process the input and show lores out­put. Do the actual hires draw­ing in another PGraph­ics object (like a kind of off-screen image buffer). Check the ref­er­ence on the PGraph­ics object.
    How­ever, this doesn’t work for OPENGL. OPENGL sketches can­not be larger than the view­port and you can’t use an OPENGL PGraph­ics object as an off­screen buffer. For­tu­nately, you can use Mar­ius Watz’ Tile­Saver, included in his Unlekker lib: http://workshop.evolutionzone.com/unlekkerlib/.
    Have fun! (BTW the Pro­cess­ing dis­course forums are a good start­ing point for this kind of stuff. Just make sure to ignore the older posts, much has changed.) If you get stuck, let us now.

  10. ronny ragtroll says:
    April 26, 2009 at 17:10

    Thanks fred­erik ! im gonna try that asap !

  11. introspector says:
    April 28, 2009 at 18:13

    hi,

    another tal­ented guy from bxl: simon geilfus

    http://www.vimeo.com/400504
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/46946848@N00/
    http://www.kinesis.be/

    does some realy intrest­ing stuff with antivj for the moment

    we should organ­ise a lit­tle sum­mer jam ;)

    corneel

  12. ronny ragtroll says:
    May 2, 2009 at 21:43

    lets get together in Ostend, this sum­mer, we can have a bbq on the beach, and the vivid city nightlife is at 1 minute walk !

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