I took a bunch of pictures and then pasted them together with
convert $(ls *JPG | sort -n -r) $(ls *JPG | sort -n) -layers OptimizePlus paper.gif
convert is a tool from the free ImageMagick package. The sort command
organizes the files into numerical order (great for those file names
that cameras tend to import). The -r flag reverses the set in the first
sequences and then I remove it for the second sequence so it loops
nicely. Again, you may have to click on the picture and let it load a
second before you get a nicely looping image.
This is an animated GIF. Click on it to watch the animation.
I am on a Residency with Jordan Tate in Banff to work on my visual
competency and I am teaching Jordan about programming and digital media.
Jordan's first assignment is to make 10 animated gifs in response to
other work. Here is part one. This is called 4'33". I recently saw
Rauschenberg's "White Paintings" at SFMOMA and I was really taken. I
love minimalism. I found out through some reading that Cage didn't
really go for the full 4'33" until he saw these. I like black so I made
a black animated gif with various degrees of black. I did this because
Cage discovered that you can't ever experience silence, there is always
some noise and jitter.
// TITLE: 4'33"
// Adam Tindale 2010
// http://www.emvergeoning.com/?p=1095
import gifAnimation.*;
GifMaker gifExport;
PImage mygif;
color[] c = new color [3];
int i = 0;
void setup(){
gifExport = new GifMaker(this, "export.gif");
gifExport.setRepeat(0);
c[0] = color(0);
c[1] = color(3);
c[2] = color(5);
}
void draw(){
background(c[i]);
gifExport.setDelay(1);
gifExport.addFrame();
if (i == 2){
gifExport.finish();
exit();
}
i = ++i % 3;
}
In preparing for mono.mono//stereo I searched for something that would
make images that I wanted. I started with Processing but once I started
adding some effects it got way too slow so I found Quartz Composer. I
ended up using that for the piece. That introduced a lot of
communication problems. OSC is not implemented well and there are a lot
of resets and bogus reports. The same data sent to any other program
looks just fine. I am looking to leave Quartz and move to another
language. What I can't find is a good language for drawing in 3D with a
list of arbitrary coordinates.
So, I have been thinking about going back to Processing or checking out
Field. Field has a lot of nice bridges to Max/MSP and some incredible
hybrid code/gui functions. It also binds with python nicely so I could
integrate marsyas and some other systems pretty easily. Could this be
the glue I am looking for?
I am still searching. I have some time coming up and I think I will play
with it a bit and report back.
I am reclaiming my blog from Zara. I will put up work in progress and my
ongoing thoughts about making work.
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