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I noticed that in the previous version of this animation, the snow was sliding beyond the boundary of the image when viewed at full size. To correct this I added a mask over the whole animation, with the same dimensions as the stage.
Click here to see the full size masked version
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Ive had GridIron Flow running in the background now for a few weeks, picking up on all the little links that make up my workflow. I checked a couple of these workflows from Flash files created for the Site + Motion module. As you can see the results are pretty complex, its amazing how quickly you can build up a workflow consisting of so many files.
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This is the 4th image of the main 5 in the animation. The idea was to experiment with the drag state in Flash and I wanted to allow the snow on the roof-lights to be slid up and down with the cursor like blinds. I thought this would be fairly easy, but it seems I was wrong, and it took me all bloody day to discover that unless ActionScript and Algebra are your first and second languages, its almost impossible.
The difficulty seems to be in restricting a draggable object to a path. It’s fairly straightforward to limit the object to a bounding rectangle, and therefore easy to limit to a horizontal or vertical line (by setting the rectangle width or height to zero), but incredibly difficult to limit to a diagonal line. I expected that I could add a motion guide as a drag path in a similar way to a tween, but this method also proved unsuccessful.
I ended up settling for a slightly different method, where the snow on the roof-lights are animated buttons which are triggered on the down state.
Click here to see it at full size
There is also a reset button somewhere in the animation, to return the snow to its original position.
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I’ve been planning out what I think will be a more concise and finalized version of my animation. Each image has its own unique animation, but all will be linked with a standardized navigational system. See the Flickr set for more detail and read the image descriptions to see what I’m planning for each image.
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Some more attractive and useful video glitching work from ISVSH. This clip is particular relevant as it is somewhat similar in appearance to what I envisage my installation projection to look like towards its latter stages. A collection of images change so quickly that we only get the very slightest impression of what they are, the odd face or figure is apparent but the overall effect is very abstract.
bijinoise from isvsh on Vimeo.
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I came across the fuba_recorder on Flickr, which claims to be a “robot for generating abstract-images of Japanese TV programs”, requested by its followers. There seems to be some sort of automation process in action which blends together a series of images to create these beautiful montages. The graphical qualities of the pieces are delightful, and I love the use of Japanese script.
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Deitch is a gallery with a great home page. The illustration features the original gallery building and depictions of the artists who exhibit there. There are few buttons or triggered animation, but some nice timeline animation, and the music works well with the graphics, emulating retro computer games. I also love the simplicity of the colour scheme.
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This flash site allows users to explore the links between the 500 largest US companies through their directors, who often sit on the board of up to 7 of these organizations. The user can easily generate maps which explain these links, and can be dragged and manipulated to suit.
“They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004. The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate – companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.”
http://www.theyrule.net
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We had a nice day trip to Oxford on Friday, and on the train my mate Digital Dave was complaining about his camera playing up. I asked to see it and unbelievably, it was doing this to his photos!
A fault in the camera was resulting in images from the memory being mashed together, so every time a new shot was taken, there were traces of previous images found in it.
Here you can see a chunk of an image he took of some t-shirts to put on eBay has forced its way into this pic of one of Oxford’s magnificent colleges. Digital memory is fused with its human equivalence, like the camera is daydreaming, thinking of the images it had taken a few days earlier.
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