And he woke up screaming having dreamed of a color he had never seen before

December 26, 2008 7:26 AM

And he woke up screaming having dreamed of a color he had never seen before
A generative video art project I've been tinkering with for a few months: 3D landscapes created programmatically in realtime, a randomly shifting dreamworld with inspiration from math, botany, origami, electron microscopy, paint flow, physics simulations, Haeckel & Escher. There's a flickr set of stills & short clips, and some longer videos put to music here. (Warning: really, really colorful)

Something different and unexpected shows up every time I press play; the videos are just a few minutes of screen recordings on my laptop. Written in C# and XNA.

posted by Xelf (8 comments total)

These are quite lovely!
posted by Jonathan Harford at 8:07 AM on December 26, 2008

I have no idea what the technology is that goes into these, but they are really nice to look at.
posted by davidstandaford at 4:31 PM on December 26, 2008

Fantastic!
posted by buriednexttoyou at 11:23 AM on December 27, 2008

Thanks folks!
posted by Xelf at 3:55 PM on December 27, 2008

I can't find anywhere to download the program. Is that because there is nowhere, or because I'm stupid?
posted by aubilenon at 10:41 PM on December 27, 2008

Reminds me of the "Minds Eye" videos from the early 90s. Where you getting the music?
posted by cjorgensen at 10:31 AM on December 28, 2008

Haha, think I remember those. The music is just songs I like that I think fit well. As for the program itself, well I'm not releasing that yet because it's my baaby (and I may be making some cash via performances / parties soon :)
posted by Xelf at 2:13 PM on December 28, 2008

I like Tokyo Glitterati. This is a great program! I hope you're not infringing on anything that anyone'll get you for with that music, 'cause this is awesome.
posted by limeonaire at 8:08 PM on December 30, 2008