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May 4, 2009 in
3d, abstract, application, art, as3, creative, flash, flex, generative, papervision and pv3d.
Tags: 3d, abstract, application, art, as3, creative, flash, flex, generative, papervision, pv3d.
Since being inspired by Matt’s generative art session at Flashbrighton a while back, I’ve been occasionally working on a personal project. It’s a Flex application where you can generate interesting abstract images and animations. It’s tricky to describe exactly what it is and what it does, so you can see for yourselves when I release it.
It was initially a simple idea of mine to see what something looked like when manipulated in a certain way. After playing around with it for a while and adding more functionality, I began finding myself entranced by the things I/it was accidentally creating. When I’ve added a bit more functionality I’ll release it and see if anyone else finds it as intriguing as I do 
If you’re interested in helping me alpha-test this, then let me know.
[Edit: By the way, it's using Papervision]
Here’s some screenshots:
Red
Lines
Rainbow
Distribution
Browns
A combination of the last two posts, with a few extra tweaks. This time it produces quite a pleasing blur if you click and hold down.
Here’s another experiment along the same lines as the last one, with the same mouse controls.
This time it’s 15,625 Pixel3D points, and the position in the cube defines the colour.
I really like the moirre effect.
Recently I’ve been inspired to create some experimental things in Papervision. I think that it’s mainly down to Matt’s talk on generative art at FlashBrighton a few weeks back.
Well, here’s the first. in brief:
- Plot 9902 Pixel3D points evenly around the surface of a sphere
- Colour each one a random red
- Rotate the sphere depending on where the mouse is
- Apply a blur effect to a BitmapEffectLayer
- Change the clippingPoint
I kinda liked the effect, so here we go. Hold the mouse down to push the sphere away.
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