Here’s an image that I created with some Processing code after I was inspired by Anthony Mattox’s work mentioned in my previous post. It’s just a bit different, and I also have some fun ideas to tweak it and apply the concept to something else interesting.

Processing in progress.

There has been a lot of impressive work in the last few years toward merging the technical and artistic, one of my favorite areas of interest. I’m really impressed with both Processing and NodeBox. Processing is a Java-based environment that came out of the Media Lab at MIT and has a great setup for getting into coding graphical artworks and interactive media. NodeBox is a similar idea and is based on one of my favorite programming languages, Python! (How could a language named after Monty be anything but good?)

Some really neat work is being presented on blogs, Flickr, Vimeo, etc. created with these tools. Here are two favorite sites of mine:

• Anthony Mattox’s New Media Art & Design – make sure to check out his work, particularly Perlin Flow Ribbons.
• Jared Tarbell’s Complification.net — some of my favorites are Substrate and Sand Stroke used in several of his works.