Check out the video rendering of the poster I shared last week for Death from Above 1979′s Do It.
Both the video and the poster were made with processing [processing.org] and a little bit of adobe after effects to bring the HD video together.
You can go to vimeo to see the video in HD.
Death From Above 1979 – Do It – Made with Processing, originally uploaded by Viller.
Another experiment with processing using a similar algorithm to my Brain of J. poster. A new song, new colors, and zoomed in on the action. Death from Above 1979′s Do It. A wicked song too.
The video will be coming shortly…
Brain of J. in Processing from Rob Villeneuve on Vimeo.
I have put together a video of my brain of J. poster on vimeo. The quality isn’t the greatest, but it helps convey how layering of the lines come together over time, and how the different sound frequences affect the outcome. You can see how the drum beat creates the larger lines, and the vocals create the smaller and darker lines towards the center. Also, the sound effects at the end of the song leave the final touches on the poster.
Here is my previous post with my Brain of J. poster -Made in processing.
No photoshop or illustrator used here, this poster was made entirely with processing[processing.org] This poster was generated by computer analysis of the sound waves [FFT] from Pearl Jam’s song Brain of J. The properties of the sound control the color, size and direction of each line in the picture.
I created this for a poster contest at 76design where everyone had 2 weeks to design a poster based on this song. I am very excited to see all of the entries tomorrow. What is the prize you ask? Bragging rights! The developers want to take down the designers at their own game… wish us luck. Also, the best posters will be printed.
This was the last of many poster iterations. I posted my first attempt to flickr as merely a milestone. However; I am much happier with this image as the concept has more to do with the lyrical context of the song.
I wish I had the time, but while rushing tweaks for the contest deadline I was unable to run the algorithm on a different song to compare and contrast. But I will once I find the free time.
I will link to some of the other posters entered in the contest tomorrow once they are officially released. Also, if you were paying attention to my last post on processing you noticed that I mentioned a suprise… well… I can’t post that until I suprise the contest participants tomorrow. patience.
I am super excited to show off my first processing (processing.org) data visualization poster. I am entering it into a design contest we are having at 76design where we submit a poster based on the song Brain of J. by Pearl Jam. A few of us programmers went the processing route, and I am excited to see the results. Other people are incorperating photography, photoshop, illustrator and their sick design skills. I would show my poster now, but I have to wait and unvail it at the contest submission this friday. Oh, and I have a suprise to go along with it.
Being a computer scientist / computer geek I have a craving to visualize data. I construct models, graphs, maps, and charts to gain a logical understanding of information. Bringing these visualizations into real life is simple, but it is challenging to design a composition which is creative, beautiful, artistic, fun and informative. Excel charts don’t cut it.
The RaceDV videos we developed are a form of data visualization which are informative and fun, but they only begin to scratch the surface. I have since found that there is a thriving community of creative thinkers, artists, programmers, mathematicians, and statisticians who are redefining the data visualization landscape.
Now what does this have to do with Radiohead? Today I came across a very inspiring project called Visualizing Radiohead by Robert Hodgin at flight404 which he submitted to a Radiohead video contest. His blog post explains how he encoded the audio information of the song Weird Fishes into an animation. This entire video is an experiment in programming and data visualization and did not require editing or post processing.
Weird Fishes: Arpeggi from flight404 on Vimeo.
If you want to see some more data visualization projects, check out the site Visual Complexity.
I can’t wait to try some experiments of my own.
