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Computers is a couple of times faster then a man when it comes to adding millions of numbers together. To bad we have to have someone sitting and waiting for the computer to finish. To bad that someone is me. To defend my position in the hierarchy I set my other work-computer on render some of my tests. I've messed around with shapes described from mathematicall expressions and here's an example. Here's the same thing with some animated parameters. Source of inspiration: Jos Leys knots and dynamic gallery. I am now pretty sattisfied with the tools and knowledge I got from "Houdini". I need some basic shading test done and then I'm ready to deal with actual work. Feels like I've got a decent flow going as I'm off to Sweden tomorrow and transportation time usually means time to think freely so I'm hoping for some new concepts to emerge then. Speeking of such, I've been thinking of creating some kind of ball of knots driven by inner turbulence. Th
Short basic thoughts about music and video. A direct conversion between sound and video is pointless. Ears deals with kHz, for an eye a signal at that frequency would be blurred out to white or at best case, noise. Paradoxical, in competition, the vision is what brings the exformation (tried to find a better word, the word itself gets a little paradoxical when nobody knows what it means). Only under visual pauses or by viewers resistance can the music play the lead role. This is just one example that put them in two separate spaces. But the matchstick that creates both a sound and light are one and the same thing, and with the sound and the light rejoined in our brains they blend together to the feeling of that object. As our brain is one of the last mysteries- somewhere to send confused young men with flags into- we seem to have encountered a interesting border of our understanding of stuff and I say it's worth exploring. I thought of a small experiment related to this. Make a ni
Practiced myself in visualising a single beat. Check animation here. It's all generated by a 1 or 0 from a MIDI code, so if the music was going for 476 minutes it wouldn't be hard to do. I felt that I would like to get my thoughts started on how to visualize the different elements in music and this was an obvious starting point. If you have any interesting tips in any related matter I'm allways very interested in learning more. And yes I am beyond tired right now.

The lie about the Metapor

The metaphor is something I find using addictively . The very first element of work seems to be spawned by patternless inspiration. A line, a technology, a movie, anything I want to interpret. But after this step I constantly feel forced by my European heritage to give this an illusion of "purpose". Everything starts as chaos but ends up in a single idea which can tell us all a lesson. There are many sides to this. For one I wonder why we use art to lie for our self in this culture. Why do we suddenly identify with thoughts that we usually see as naive or just wrong when they're brought in the world of art? Are we really just so plain stupid that we can't separate the message from the messenger? Is left side of our brains, the rational, so dominant that only when we are exposed for explosions and noise the right side is invited for its opinion. And then we start see patterns, a whole. PURPOSE *judgement quire voice*. So I start to make up a story, how the red spots I
Spent the day on trying to find seeds to concepts. Here's some base thoughts: Side of a high, narrow mountain (like a infinite version of that sharp mountain in Lord of the rings) breakes up to a mouth and a gap with extremely long teeths is opening. The mouth is slashing it's teeths together until they start to brake to pieces, finaly leaving a more normal mouth. Last week I went to a club were the building (a church) created a really weird resonanse, the effect on the pee in the urinals was really interesting. It would be nice to put that into a different context, maby black liquid with some oily specularity? Maby even film a bucket of water with a subwoofer attached on the bottom. Talked to a friend, Camilo , if he was keen to make some beats with accompanying MIDI code to control the pattern making. Luckily he was with me at the club and seen "the toilet effect" live so the idea didn't sound to weird to him. So test coming up next week. Also got some old ideas
Every movement starts with a founding statement. This is not a movement. Starting to get some results from Houdini. Discovered VOP:s today wich greatly enhance the mathematical side of the software. Also, the possibility to construct you're own nodes from VOPs is amazing for optimizing evaluation. I've fianally got my curves generation to work as flexible as I wanted. Check animation. More tech shite, they're all generated by a ordinary particle system, the mesh is then created procedurally by trails and vops. Scene file here . My point with these are to get the possibility to draw curves with a undefined volume. I guess I need to enhance the look of them to show this effect though. I'm guessing the inspiration for these came from the magic my coworker, Pawel Grochola , designed for Stardust (if you see the film, check out the green stuff). This is just a vague reflection of his results which are truly magical. Inspiration, yeah. Visited the future in Apple store which