Generative Flowers II was created in Adobe Director MX 2004 using image lingo. It was created for an upcoming outdoor installation at Victory Media Network in Dallas Texas. Victory Plaza has a 50x30 ft HD superscreen they intend to show works from an international array of video and new media artists. I wrote an animation event manager to sync animation to the 120bpm tempo soundtrack. I wrote a basic renderer using Werner Sharp's Image Export Extra to render out the frames of video as png files in HD. 

The program generates really colorful video by running color fills through animated grayscale masks of flowers then applying video feedback. The color fills and certain portions of the animation are unpredictable. Some procedural processes are employed that sample the animation as it is being generated. In its pure state as a piece of software it is designed to never generate the same video twice or loop. For Victory Media Network I chose a specific order for the central flowers since there are two screens facing each other across a courtyard. The videos should appear closely synchronized but different at the same time.

Generative Flowers II was created, programmed and scored by Don Relyea. Mark Charneski photographed and scanned the original flowers. Below are some rendered frames of the actual video.

Below are some rendered HD frames of the actual video. Be sure to check out the rendered HD frames on the project page!

    

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donrelyea said:

	Duh! my PAM gallery URL so you can watch Generative Flowers II on [PAM] :grin
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