College projects
Cellular automata explorations, etc
Various generative sketches, some implemented with Processing and some with openFrameworks, that use cellular automata and particle systems to transform static source images into generative artworks.
WildGarden
Senior thesis project, implemented using Processing and the library oscP5.
The original project description I wrote (preserved from the thesis project abstract):
WildGarden enables participants to create visual compositions through an exploratory process of invoking and manipulating algorithmically generated elements that simulate paint strokes. WildGarden's digital paint strokes employ particle algorithms such as flocking and path following. While the paint strokes can move and develop independent of user intervention, a participant has the power to use a Nintendo Wii controller to expressively direct how their compositions evolve in real time by affecting core parameters of the paint strokes. Each paint stroke can be modified to affect its colors and size, as well as the behavioral parameters that determine how fast and to what degree of chaos it moves.
WildGarden additionally provides utilities for customizing color palettes and saving and exporting high-res screenshots of compositions.
WildGarden is implemented in Java using the open source Processing library. It can be used as both a standalone application (currently only being tested on OSX) and a toolkit to be applied in other projects.
Various composition stills created with WildGarden
A footnote
In retrospect, I didn't do a great job documenting and preserving much of my work in college. Notably, most of my programming projects from this time are actually interactive, and the visuals are animated or otherwise dynamic. The artifacts I have are mainly still images taken of visuals produced with these projects, and, in the case of my thesis project, the original source code (which is painful to look at now).