A new kind of science
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
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We propose a method for turning a slideshow of photographs into a media art installation consisting of a digital video flux of intermingled images, a continuous, ever-changing stream of dynamically created pictures composed of parts of basic images taken from a database of digital photographs. We called our system Palimpsest, referring to the tradition of medieval copies of books, when a manuscript is erased and re-written with new text. The basic idea is to combine one photograph with another on a pixel-by-pixel basis and to apply Cellular Automata rules to further mix in real-time the images together. The Cellular Automaton, will, from a series of randomly chosen seed pixels, slowly merge an image with another. It is worth noticing that more than two images can overlap at the same time. The key point is that this transformation process is part of the artwork itself, bringing some mesmerizing aspect to the flux of images.