Month: January 2009
Movement from light
My first solar engine, using a flashing LED as a voltage trigger. Has a sort of fluttery daintiness…
Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics
A bit of research into BEAM robots. Looking at the reactive approach to sensor -> actuator control, and trying to understand what Nv Neurons and Suspended Bicores are all about. Nice to have a quick go at building something in the midst of reading stuff.
Lirec work begins
My work on Lirec has begun this week – lots of reading to start with, and putting notes on the libarynth.
Fluxus manual
I spent a lot of the weekend working on improving the fluxus documentation by writing something which might serve as a user manual. Lots of work to do on it yet though.
(type->poly)
I’ve added (type->poly) to fluxus, which means you can do everything with your typefaces that you can do with polygons, such as add texture and deform them. Here’s an example with wingdings…
Mulberries in the wind…
A test using textures taken from Theun’s patabotanical illustrations.