regulated.lines

Fantastic mechanical sculpture by Arthur Ganson at ted.com.
playful. rigorous. beautiful. animated.

Not to take anything away from one of the best “computational designers” (or whatever) - Robert Hodgin, but this (new?!) guy is bringing some serious heat with his FIRST processing animation. HOT. I’d say he’s off to a good start.

Music Is Math from glennmarshall on Vimeo.
Hopefully he will be updating frequently at http://www.butterfly.ie/
 

Another animation using the same porosity script with a couple added parameters.

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var s0 = new SWFObject(”http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/mediaplayer/player.swf”,”n0″,”400″,”280″,”7″);
s0.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s0.addParam(”allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s0.addParam(”wmode”,”opaque”);
s0.addVariable(”id”,”n0″);
s0.addVariable(”controlbar”,”bottom”);
s0.addVariable(”height”,”280″);
s0.addVariable(”playlist”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(”width”,”400″);
s0.addVariable(”autostart”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”bufferlength”,”1″);
s0.addVariable(”displayclick”,”play”);
s0.addVariable(”icons”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”linktarget”,”_blank”);
s0.addVariable(”mute”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”quality”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”repeat”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(”resizing”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”shuffle”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”stretching”,”uniform”);
s0.addVariable(”volume”,”90″);
s0.addVariable(”aboutlink”,”http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/”);
s0.addVariable(”file”,”http://www.regulatedlines.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/video/Animation_2.flv”);
s0.write(”video0″);

Here is a recent example of what I have been talking about.

This script was written originally for practical purposes to control the orientation of some heavy timber beams that I intend to employ for my current studio project. The idea is simple: pick an object, and array the object between two curves, scaling to fit [...]