the music of color


Three overlapping circles hypnotically cycle through the colors

Posted: February 26th, 2012 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Animation, Processing, Programming | No Comments »

the golden spiral comes to life for a second

Posted: April 14th, 2011 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Animation, Golden Mean, Processing, Programming | No Comments »

Technicolor Golden Mean

Posted: February 3rd, 2011 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Animation, Golden Mean, Processing, Programming | 2 Comments »

Swirling Vortex

Phi Phyllotaxis seed patterns

Posted: January 17th, 2011 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Animation, Golden Mean, Processing, Programming | No Comments »

Trippy Slithering Black Eye


Trippy black eyeball: an interactive animation written in processing-JS for html5.

Posted: December 23rd, 2010 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Animation, Processing, Programming | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

the mandlebulb will explode your brain

Check out the huge heap of awesome that is the mandlebulb or 3d mandlebrot set.  Read the whole story over here at this very strange skytopia project page.   It seems to have been the brainchild and 20 year quest of Rudy Rucker, which he writes about over on his blog, and also over here at [...]

Posted: December 30th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

Trees Growing Branches

An animated tribute to the math of self-referencing growth. Cultivate your own wild forest. Play with the ways that trees grow branches. Written in processingJS for HTML5.

Posted: December 3rd, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Animation, Processing, Programming | 4 Comments »

martian landscapes & the mysterium tremendum

Just take a look at these amazing photos that came back from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which has been orbiting and photographing mars since 2006 at resolutions of an inch a pixel. They look so organic to me, so suspiciously similar to the living processes that are at play all around us here on the [...]

Posted: November 13th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

Something Like Vines

Gold and yellow colored vines grow horizontally. They progress based on sign waves

Posted: November 13th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Animation, Processing, Programming | No Comments »

Processing & the man and the ox transcended

Just discovered this incredible java-based open source flash-like product called processing.  Very simple to work with and excellent if you are trying to make art-like output for printing.  Lets you render at very large scale and output to very large images. Here’s a digital take on the 8th painting in the ox herding series. It [...]

Posted: October 13th, 2009 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Flash, Photos | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »