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DevArt Art Made with Code

31 points by danboarder 12y ago

stevebmark 12y ago
This website is incomprehensible
- danboarder 12y ago
  Is that because art is incomprehensible? But really the UX is not that bad -- there are filters across the top to reduce your view, restricting the results by filtering by Languages, Toolkits, Platforms, APIs, and Project Types. Seems reasonable. For example, filtering by Toolkits>threejs shows some neat dataviz projects using threejs[1]. [1] https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/?q=threejs https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/?q=threejs
  - TheOtherHobbes 12y ago
    Art is entirely comprehensible. The problem with projects like this is that they often look more like technology studies than art. There's a sweet spot between vintage media techniques and this modern(ist) everything-is-colour+code+concept digital style. But hardly anyone is exploring it.
noelwelsh 12y ago
Nice site. I saw this project and knew it had to be eigenfaces: https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/project/16569221 https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/project/16569221 Eigenfaces is a very old technique for doing this (it was old when I implemented for the first time in 2000) and as you can see the results are rather blurry. It only takes about five lines of code in a matrix language -- collecting data was the main issue I recall. If nothing else this serves as a good example of the value of framing your work. Done in a machine learning / stats context eigenfaces is not much more than a nice blog post (e.g. http://jeremykun.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/ http://jeremykun.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/) or class project. But ... present it as an art project and you get frontpage on Google's new site.
- m-photonic 12y ago
  Very interesting. What if you took a large set of musical notes on various instruments, with about a two-second duration, with the same pitch, same volume, and same sample rate, and did the same thing? Eigensounds! And that's just with a time-domain representation of the sound -- you'd get different eigensounds if you used a frequency-domain representation. I have to wonder if something like this is used by those song-recognizing apps that can tell you what a song is just by hearing a snippet through your phone.
MegaLeon 12y ago
Ah, Google DevArt. I partecipated last year and my project got a weekly feature award from the judges (every week they'd pick a promising project for that) but sadly didn't make in the final selection. For some reason my project was pulled from the website after the competition ended, I tried to contact them about it but with no success. The project is on github, for those curious: https://github.com/MegaLeon/devart-arsmatrix https://github.com/MegaLeon/devart-arsmatrix
Mithaldu 12y ago
I wonder when they'll acknowledge the OG art made with code people and link to this: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup

31 points by danboarder 12y ago

stevebmark 12y ago

This website is incomprehensible

danboarder 12y ago
Is that because art is incomprehensible? But really the UX is not that bad -- there are filters across the top to reduce your view, restricting the results by filtering by Languages, Toolkits, Platforms, APIs, and Project Types. Seems reasonable. For example, filtering by Toolkits>threejs shows some neat dataviz projects using threejs[1]. [1] https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/?q=threejs https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/?q=threejs
- TheOtherHobbes 12y ago
  Art is entirely comprehensible. The problem with projects like this is that they often look more like technology studies than art. There's a sweet spot between vintage media techniques and this modern(ist) everything-is-colour+code+concept digital style. But hardly anyone is exploring it.

noelwelsh 12y ago

Nice site. I saw this project and knew it had to be eigenfaces: https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/project/16569221 https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/project/16569221 Eigenfaces is a very old technique for doing this (it was old when I implemented for the first time in 2000) and as you can see the results are rather blurry. It only takes about five lines of code in a matrix language -- collecting data was the main issue I recall. If nothing else this serves as a good example of the value of framing your work. Done in a machine learning / stats context eigenfaces is not much more than a nice blog post (e.g. http://jeremykun.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/ http://jeremykun.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/) or class project. But ... present it as an art project and you get frontpage on Google's new site.

m-photonic 12y ago
Very interesting. What if you took a large set of musical notes on various instruments, with about a two-second duration, with the same pitch, same volume, and same sample rate, and did the same thing? Eigensounds! And that's just with a time-domain representation of the sound -- you'd get different eigensounds if you used a frequency-domain representation. I have to wonder if something like this is used by those song-recognizing apps that can tell you what a song is just by hearing a snippet through your phone.

MegaLeon 12y ago

Ah, Google DevArt. I partecipated last year and my project got a weekly feature award from the judges (every week they'd pick a promising project for that) but sadly didn't make in the final selection. For some reason my project was pulled from the website after the competition ended, I tried to contact them about it but with no success. The project is on github, for those curious: https://github.com/MegaLeon/devart-arsmatrix https://github.com/MegaLeon/devart-arsmatrix

Mithaldu 12y ago

I wonder when they'll acknowledge the OG art made with code people and link to this: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup