Drafts Overview
Idea
Some of my work is inspired by (pop) cultural themes. This work started by the image of the "Arquillian Galaxy" which appeared in the first Men in Black movie. A cat wears a pendant which contains that Galaxy. So the image I used for this work is that this jewelery shows stars / a galaxy or the universe overall. The animation starts with a "big bang": Everthing bursts, expands from one starting point. Then for a while everthing moves based on a certain ruleset. But in the end the universe collapses into one point (Black hole), just like everything started.
The animation could also represent a life: The first part represents the birth and growing up with developing different interest and skills bringing each individual in different directions. Second part represents the grown up life (to become integrated in the social society). The last part represents getting old and finally die.
Programming
The animation is divided into three parts:
1) "Fireworks": A simple motion algorithm starting at the center of the screen: motion = location + velocity.
2) "Flock": An implementation of Craig Reynold's flocking behavior.
3) "Seek": Every point tryes to reach a target, a goal by changing its direction of movement. This target
is again in the middle of the screen.
The colors are taken randomly from the ColorLovers Website.
Look and Feel
To get an idea how the animation may look like on the nubi object. Here some visuals (Please note: The gif - Animations may take a while to load depending on the internet connection):
And here some additional stills created through changing parameters and randomness:
