james wellock - uni blog 07/08: November 2005

Friday, November 04, 2005

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - 10 x 10

Image courtesy of http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html, originally uploaded by James Wellock.

Above is a piece that experiments with capturing images off the internet and laying them out in an easy to understand way. There are 100 images taken from various news websites and a list of titles down the side. If the user clicks on an image or title a box opens with a larger image and links to where the story is being mentioned. This piece is highly relevent to me as it shows me yet another way to display collected images and their information, as well as suggesting a way to capture them through PHP code and Flash Actionscript.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Kevin Davies - Zombie Simulator

zombie simulator, originally uploaded by James Wellock.

Kevin Davies is a program artist who created a short but effective program called the "Zombie Simulator." Here the zombies are in grey and move very slowly changing direction randomly unless they see a human in front of them, then they move towards it. If the zombie then gets to the human it infects them and turns it into a zombie. Humans are then in pink and move five times as fast as zombies also moving in random directions. If they see a zombie though in front of them they panic and start moving twice as fast, then if another human sees them panicing the other human panics as well. It is a quirky little simulation game that is very relevent to my Project Seesaw project as it shows me what actions can be created using randomness, in programming.