[NetBehaviour] Motion Study 78

[Alan Sondheim]

Quantum mechanical computer (via a technical book I'm read, barely hanging 
in there :-)  )

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:48:48 -0600
> From: Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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> Cc: Paul Hertz <ignotus at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Motion Study 78
> 
> Glad you like the work, Alan. I'm not sure what QMC refers to. Quantum Monte
> Carlo?
> 
> Do you have an account on GitHub? The Processing code is there and updated
> pretty much daily. It won't be public until I have the development finished,
> but I can share it with anyone who has a GitHub account before it goes
> public.
> 
> At the moment I am doing pretty elementary stuff, as far as wave behaviors
> go. The animation basically arises from phase shifting and phase
> cancellation. Each of the eight waves in the example on Vimeo controls the
> blending of a color. Colors are sometimes selected so that when the waves
> that carry them are out of phase, the blend is a neutral gray (i.e., they
> are complementary, in the math of RGB). The result is that colors appear and
> disappear. Sometimes I am very calculating with each wave and color (each
> operator), but I also have code to remix colors, phases, and frequencies.
> 
> There are several next steps: using wavelets instead of waves, using
> recorded audio, and creating the next level of animation that interpolates
> one state of operators to another state of operators.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -- Paul
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 7:26 PM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>       Hi Paul,
> This is fantastic, thank you - mesmerizing and I hope you present some
> of the code / mathematics behind this.
> Much appreciated!,
> One question - this resonates with what I've been reading about QMC -
> is there any chance this could be imported and expanded?
> Thanks!, Alan
> 
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 1:17 PM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>       Long days working with numbers, code, imagination slowly
>       bring results.
> 
> The structures in this study may develop into several projects,
> but most particularly now they are intended for a new intermedia
> project, a collaboration with a composer that will open in
> September in Chicago. More news on that as it becomes a work.
> 
> https://vimeo.com/677922172, best viewed full screen, 2 minutes
> long.
> 
> It's a loop, but Vimeo doesn't provide very good facilities for
> looping. If you are so inclined, download it to view it as a
> loop. I like to think of this study and similar pieces as
> ambient works for screens, sometimes changing so imperceptibly
> that we notice only after looking away and returning.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -- Paul
> 
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