Archive for the 'Dynamic Art' Category

Team Cooper is feeling the love

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Maybe it’s the time of year but we’ve really been feeling the love recently.

Last Friday I attended We Love Technology which kicked of Sheffield’s lovebytes festival this year and I came away from it all giddy with techno joy. There was lots of talk about a convergence of ideas between the many different fields of design, craft, diy [...]

Wordle

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

It’s not flash but it is pretty… a picture with words, where the most used words are made bigger and bolder. So, like, really, here’s a wordle from our blog -

Joy!
 

Chase pattern with only 3 particles

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I quite liked the effect of reducing the number of particles. You can see how they are interacting with each other in more detail. It’s especially cool when they start spiralling around each other. (I also took out the random footprint sizing)
http://labs.teamcooper.co.uk/chase_002/index_3.php

Chasing patterns

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Had another go last night.

Basically, I have been trying to recreate some of the things I saw at Flash on the Beach as follows …
First, create some particles, then set them off in random directions at random speeds and update their positions on every frame.
Second, draw a random image at the same position as each particle [...]

FOTB Inspiration

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

At Flash on the Beach, I was really inspired by some of the dynamic artwork talks  (Joshua Davis and Eric Natzke spring to mind initially).
Normally, being the code monkey that I am, my artistic skills look like a 5 year olds, but when I saw what these guys were doing I thought, “Hey! I could have a go [...]