The image above is from the Jacquard Loom series (see
here and here), using my python script to read a year’s worth of data from our GPS records and plugging in Peter’s processing script, the strips were produced, showing GPS activity much as in the previous posts.
After meeting up with Peter at Martin’s micro_blackdeath ATmega noise workshop at NK on Saturday, we were able to talk a bit more about what I’m calling the Jacquard Loom GPS visualisation of the activity in our database.
After meeting Peter today, I decided to finally look at the alpha setting on his openframeworks application we use for lots of our work to explore a possible solution to getting a 3D printer to make a frequency map from a detail of our map. This is the urge that …
While working on Soul Walker, I’ve been revisiting the files we made for the Nottingham University research phase last year and wondering about those files generated by NetLogo of a ‘soul’ patiently trudging across the territory I flew over, oblivious to puddles, hedgerow, supermarkets.
This shows the setup, with my computer running Ubuntu Linux and the software Peter wrote for us in OpenFrameworks. The OHP hack is previewed in the previous post.
I arrived in Nottingham on Sunday and was picked up by my friend Dave with whom I’m staying between Derby and Nottingham. Thanks, Dave and Laura, if it wasn’t for you, these trips to Nottingham to hook up with the MRL, or the Nottingham Geospatial Institute, or indeed …
After a quick ride through Tiergarten today, here are the first
results. As a last minute alteration, I’d nailed elastic strips to the
swinging drawing platform to hold the paper and attached a bit of
metal to the arm to make the pen lighter and less friction on the …
After two intensive days building, making the lounge look like a bomb’s hit it while Soph is away, I’ve got a working machine for some aleotory drawings of journeys.
Drawing Machine prototype
I might have to add weight to the swinging drawing surface and I have to work …
