Deliverables

Final Animation

I have designed this animation myself. The graphics were designed in 3DS max and animated. Each frame was then exported as jpg's and imported into flash. I created a movie clip and put each image on separate frames. I then used action script to make the image fall down the screen randomly. each time it falls below the screen it regenerates and falls at a different speed and different location on the screen. This is easily changed by manipulating the numbers within the action-script code.


Results from my experiments

Please take a look at the image below. It contains 8 images taken from interesting results from my experiments. You can click on the image to enlarge it.

Processing

Next I downloaded the programme processing from www.processing.org

I have downloaded some source code from http://abandonedart.org
I have downloaded the source code for the following animation http://abandonedart.org/?p=138

Here is the original animations with no alterations and a screengrab





I have edited the speed of the spots from 0.02 to 0.5 and increased the frame rate from 12fps to 24 fps. Youll also notice i have changed the colour of the spots from gray to black.





Next I downloaded the source code from http://abandonedart.org/?p=752. Faces in a crowd
here is a screengrab


I have manipulated the code to change the background from white to grey



I have changed the eye colour from white with black dots for the pupils, to just completely black.





This next animation consists of thin lines making smooth arcs making tracers and patterns on a black bacground then fading out.


I have changed the size and colours of the lines. The frame rate has also been changed from 12 fps to 24fps. I have also changed the trajectory of the arcs making some interesting patterns. see below.

Flash and actionscript

Using some example files provided i started editing flash animations.

here is the original flash animation


here is my edited version
Using action script I edited the video to increase the wave length and also change the colours

New Project: Designing With Numbers

This project is based on creating unique animations using code to control it. I have started research by looking at some animations that are controlled completely by code. Firstly I looked at some flash files in which simple graphics were animated using action script to create unique animations. I also looked at the open source programming language called processing (www.processing.org). This is used for images, animation and interaction.