I recently purchased the processing book from Ben Fry and Casey Reas and started to get more familiar with the syntax in processing. With this knowledge I was able to begin to expand on my recent Brownian Movement experiments. This time I am not using an additive stage, but instead I am clearing and redrawing the stage on every cycle to allow the particles to have a more distinct motion.
This is pretty basic example but the motion and the particle grouping turned out better than I expected so I figured I would share my results. I will clean the code up a bit and post it at a later date.
See it in action: Brownian Movement in Motion
I started to move my experiments over to processing. I thought it might be more difficult than it was but the syntax and concepts behind the language made the programming pretty straightforward. I created a simple app that will allow a user to click and release some Brownian particles on the stage and then each particle will move around until its life cycle has ended. This is a pretty basic example and isn’t pretty yet but at least it gives a better idea about how brownian movement works.
Check the link: Brownian Movement Example
Brownian movement is described as the random movement of particles in liquid. Since the movement is in liquid the motion is in three dimensional. I thought three dimensions might be a bit too much to get started with so I simplified it down to two dimensions. This is a just a quick note to show what I have worked on in the past. It was created in actionscript 2 using bitmap data, the drawing api, and of course the basic fundamentals of brownian movement. I have included some images of the visuals that were created and a link to the tool I created to draw for me.
Use the sliders and text fields to manipulate the results of the visualization tool. Brownian Movement Drawing Tool
I am creating this blog to document my exploration into creating visualizations with basic programmatic theories and concepts. I have spent some time over the past year exploring brownian movement and have had some pretty interesting results.
This blog will continue be the place that I document my progress as I move through my ideas and concepts. I am currently using flash as a medium but with a recent purchase of Casey Reas and Ben Fry’s processing book I will look to processing to provide a method to create prints of my work. Please check back for more updates.