Abstract Inspiration

Links to existing projects that came up during Interactions class today:

• Flash projects by artists, designers and hackers within the openFrameworks community
• A blog for inspiring things: Digital Tools
• the HYPE framework, a creative coding framework built on top of ActionScript 3.0

Go look at the animation on the HYPE framework and then come back to me. Click here.

There are no images used in the animation, it is entirely a coded graphic. You will notice if you refresh the page that it starts as a blank canvas every time. That is pretty cool. This shows that programming for multimedia can be as creative and expressive as any other design medium; for example graphic design.  

Just the other day I was looking at the screensaver on my iMac ...and with rePLAY in mind... I was thinking how onscreen movement through colour and light could represent physical activity between a user and our onscreen elements.

Some short clips of the screensaver

1) Slow, defined shapes. Movement becoming more regular.
possibly user has just started to play

2) colour explosion
user really getting into our interactions

3) movement reverts to slower, formed shapes
maybe user has stopped playing

Audio added to this mix could explode the design into a whole other dimension.

rePlay started out on an abstract path, however, it has grown into more defined shapes and objects as we cement our idea, skills and resources.

Annie.

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