December 14, 2008

Processing

While not a complete solution to a project, processing offers alot in terms of education and experience and is presented as an Electronic Sketch Book for testing ideas.

The founation of processing is the unification of design and art skills with programming principals to create a truly Digital and Dynamic form of Art.

Just Thinking...

After attending a lecture by Gino Acevedo, weta digital and shop, i came away with one realy important motivtion. I need to learn biology.

The study of living things. This is a keystone to succesful and natural feeling projects and will implications for all areas of the design. These include issues like the unnacany vally, the 'not real enough because we see it every day and we know how it should look and i doesnt quite look like that' as well as fluid, natural motions and procedurally styled content. So i begin at the easyiset source of all digital information. The wiki:

Biology (from Greek βιολογία - βίος, bios, "life"; -λογία, -logia) is the study of life and a branch of the natural sciences which studies living organisms and how they interact with each other and their environment.
It examines the structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution of living things.
Also, it classifies and describes organisms, their functions, and how species come into existence. Four unifying principles form the foundation of modern biology: cell theory, evolution, genetics and homeostasis.

All of this interests me and provides strong foundations for the themes and structure of my next project. The next step is to choose a platform to target....

Options include OGRE, XNA, and Processing as well as Adobe Director