December 13th, 2008

wordTapestry

wordtapestry

For one of my classes, I wrote a Processing sketch that does an web image search for keywords from the class, such as “California Ideology”, “canon”, “code”, “commons”, “mass culture”,”media”, “privacy”, “public good”,”reductionism”,”representative”,”retro-futurism”,”secrecy” and “sousveillance”. It then takes takes the images, and weaves the pixels together, sort of like a tapestry. The code is here.

One Response to “wordTapestry”

  1. Ian Bartholomew » Blog Archive » pixelOSC Says:

    [...] I wrote a new Processing sketch today (I love the inspiration that time off affords) that takes color information from each pixel in an image, and uses that to create sound.  I extracted the red, blue, green, hue, saturation and brightness of each pixel, and created a sine wave for each value.  Together, they create interesting harmonies, a sort of audible version of my last project. [...]

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