House of Shader
Using NodeBox to visualize the Radiohead House of Cards data was fun but NodeBox proved to be too slow on my laptop (I think CoreGraphics has moved onto Intel while I’m stuck at G4)… so I decided to download Processing and give it a whirl.
I tried creating a smooth shader-like look by using ellipses to render the data points and faking Gaussian smoothing by hackishly using multiple ellipses with varying Alpha levels. Looks decent but not too exciting.
The jerkiness and unnatural movement of the ear are due to the intentional noise added to the dataset by the creators and not an effect of the motion capture technology (as explained here).
Gotta admit, I do like Processing… even though it makes me use curly braces. It was easy to learn quickly (same concept as NodeBox and other procedural art environments) and the use of Java didn’t get in my way too much.
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