Some Random Dude » source-code http://www.somerandomdude.com Some Random Dude is a blog by P.J. Onori that covers design & technology in the broadest sense possible. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:37:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Processing Motion Experiment – Meander http://www.somerandomdude.com/2008/03/30/meander/ http://www.somerandomdude.com/2008/03/30/meander/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:32:54 +0000 P.J. Onori http://www.somerandomdude.net/blog/processing/meander/ I have really fallen in love with Processing, but I had been had hit a bit of a plateau in terms of progress in the past month or so. I never really have spent too much time with algorithmic motion/drawing. When I jumped into Flash, I went straight towards the Tween class and never spent much time trying to work in the EnterFrame-loop based motion design. Because of this, learning how to work with Processing’s draw() loop has been a bit foreign and one can only find so many ways to implement sine/cosine motion treatments.

Luckily, I ran across the simply stunning work of Robert Hodgin who just happened to offer up his source code. After looking through one of his projects and banging away at it, I ended up learning a quite a bit on how motion can end up looking more organic and sporadic. This particular project used the noise() method as its basis for motion jittering. I had not even known such a method existed. After hacking up Robert’s source, I came up with some really interesting form experiments using Robert’s general motion concepts.

Meander Video

Meander from P.J. Onori on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.somerandomdude.com/2008/03/30/meander/feed/ 3 Processing Experiment – Spin http://www.somerandomdude.com/2007/11/19/processing-spin/ http://www.somerandomdude.com/2007/11/19/processing-spin/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:00:08 +0000 P.J. Onori http://www.somerandomdude.net/blog/processing/processing-spin/ I think this Processing itch of mine is going to stick. I am still learning the basics, but what I love about Processing is that amazing things can still be achieved with little experience or overheard. I whipped this up a few nights back – all motion is based on sine/cosine computations.

Processing Experiment – Spin from P.J. Onori on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.somerandomdude.com/2007/11/19/processing-spin/feed/ 2