Short Films

Definitely use the HD viewing option for this featured work from the Imagine Science Film Festival’s Vimeo Short Film Contest:

Glenn Marshall, an Irish computer artist and musician, created this work by filtering music through a series of formulae using an open source tool called Processing. He writes at length about how he created this “generative animation” at his website.  A taste:

Nearly everything is controlled by multiple oscillators which when offset and multiplied by each other create an organic, continually changing pathway for the snake body to follow.  The camera z depth is also hooked onto an oscillator, and also tracks a fixed point close to the head of the snake.

He has created some beautiful art using these tools–from a forthcoming iPhone app to an award-winning Peter Gabriel video.  Marshall’s work is one of many beautiful short films blending artistry and science at the Imagine Science Film Festival group in Vimeo.  The 2009 festival will be held in New York in October.

[See also this previous post on the ISF project and other "Interesting Videos" highlighted at The Occasional.]

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