Fractal work

Something I cooked up today at uni and at home.



I modified this to create my own version. It uses a simple movieclip to create a fractal like effect, each branch spawns 2 smaller versions of the movieclip. A random hex RGB value is generated each time to keep it cycling colours.

It started as just looking at the source code from phong and then I just kept editing and adding things to it, much like the 'Play' method Matt Jones conjured up.

My fractal works better in full screen, so click here to see it in all its glory!

Source code.

Wrong Mirror

We use mirrors everyday to check our appearances without thinking twice about the high resolution image we see in it. I've coded up a quick and dirty mirror that blurs when you look into it. Approach the camera and the screen gets blurred.

Maybe it can make you think again about the everyday.

Surveillance

Using Google we can find many webcams which are publicly accessible. With a little digging around in the HTML code I realized that I could write a shell script repeatedly calling wget (a nifty command line program) which could grab the most recent frame every ten seconds.

I then processed the sequence of webcam images from each location to create a series of duo tone images. I'm thinking that these outputted images could be the seeds for an algorithmic music composition.

This is the output after processing the footage from a camera at Mason School of Business Graduate Lounge in Virginia:



This is the output after processing the footage from a camera at 51 High St in Ware:




This is the output after processing the footage from a camera that appears to be in a call centre in Argentina:



And here is what my screen looked like when the app was running: