I wanted to share with the class a project in design I did with processing. Images of it and a description are at gregcoledesigns.com.

Budget Cuts Vinyl

March 2009, Graphic Design: Illustration
Processing programming language
Mock-up of a 120' x 60' building vinyl

For this project we were asked to create a vinyl building covering for a gallery exhibit about local issues. I choose to explore the problems associated with budget cuts to the university arts and music program. To create the image seen below, I created a program from scratch that rotated vector shapes around an origin point while changing their color from vibrant hues of blue and purple to dulled out grays. Programming was chosen over more traditional techniques because its mathematical system that creates this work of decreasing quantities is related to the structure of the system that has led to these problems.

The program that creates these images can be interacted with here.

Falling a little behind in Posts

Well I have been working in processing and have made a lot of progress. I was able to figure out how midi sound works and to understand how the program works. I went with ProMidi but I have also tried themidibus, and ESS as well as some other stuff on the forums. For my project though, I am probably going to use Sonia to change sampled music based on values of a moving or collection of images. My latest program at the time is a one that changes a tone based on the average brightness of a frame and the volume is tied to the red value of the frame. It can be found here(I dont think it works on the web). Right now I am working on my gallery piece that I created in Animation I that I could possibly finish up with a soundtrack. I kind of have small project ideas at the moment and no large scale final project.