Very interesting stuff--I'll share with the boffins in our "Media, Art, and Text" doctoral program.
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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Ha. Thanks, David.
A couple of the nicest surprises were A the botanical nature of the look of some of the graphics. The 'leafs', in particular. The generator shape is not leafy at all. It's just an S shape. And B, the biological nature of the look of some of the graphics. Some of the graphics look like undersea creatures of some sort. And C some of the animations look rather smoky but with ultra colorful smoke.
I might be all wet, but my guess is the reason these similarities exist is because when you take a basic S-shaped curve and rotate it, make it smaller, move it around, and make it move sort of like a snake, you'll be imitating processes that naturally occur in the growth of natural botanical and biological simple forms.
I called that first shape, the dynamic S, 'nother mature' for the above sort of reason.
Thanks for having a look, David.
ja
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> These things are distressingly god-like, Jim. Congratulations.
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> On 11 September 2011 19:28, Jim Andrews <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> well by jove it's finished. aleph null launches today at
>> http://turbulence.org/**spotlight/alephnull<http://turbulence.org/spotlight/alephnull>
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>> i'm happy it's launching on turbulence.org from nyc; that's one of the
>> longest-lived sites concerned with net art and they actually commission
>> quite a bit of net art.
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>> i appreciate the opportunity to have shown some of you this piece from its
>> early stages. it's changed a great deal over the course of development. from
>> initial fumblings and simply getting familiar with drawing stuff on the new
>> html 5 canvas, to where it is now.
>>
>> thanks for your patient indulgence.
>>
>> ja
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