king talk

For selecting one of the audiovisualizations which were produced by the 3rd semester at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Benedikt Groß came up with a RFID controlled »remote« for the clips.

Every block has a little picture and a short project description printed on the front. You have to lay one these blocks into the black frame for choosing a clip. Every block has an integrated RFID tag which represents a number inside a system. A RFID reader is mounted under the surface of the table reading the current state.

It looked like a improvement of the Slideshow Block installation from 2006. Every slideshow had a wooden block as representative to select and start the show.

While working on my generative wireframes, I got more and more interested in how something like that would look when set in motion. Then I came up with is what you see in this video:

You might notice that it doesn’t look anything like my previous work. That is one of the aspects I love so much about generative design: you never know where you will end up. I started out with some rotating ellipses and came to a completely different result by simply changing parameters and editing tiny bits of code. There is a Flickr set with some screenshots from earlier versions.

As far as the result is concerned, it is not audio reactive. Different types of animations are triggered by pressing keys. Additionally, there’s some modifier keys that change the behaviour of various elements. Actually, the program has some more possibilities that just didn’t fit into the context of that particular video. I am looking forward to use them in future work.

Oh, and it was made with Processing.