Comments on: Cool Java art/experiments?

Question: Cool Java art/experiments?

diastematic — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:25:30 -0800

Cool Java art/experiments?

Looking for recommendations for sleek Java interactive art or experiments. Fun, beautiful, compelling, surprising, time-sucking, eye-opening...whatever. Show me whacha got.

By: panoptican

panoptican — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:28:48 -0800

Recently posted to MeFi: Random blue lines. There's probably more in the post. I can't find it though.

By: diastematic

diastematic — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:33:01 -0800

Thanks! I've been thinking about that one for the last week or so -- great stuff -- and it's the post that actually got me thinking what else is out there? Hope there are more nuggets out there on the internets.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:33:58 -0800

There's all kinds of neat stuff at soda.co.uk

By: chrismear

chrismear — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:35:06 -0800

A whole bunch of stuff by Ken Perlin. I'm fond of A Webwide World, Adventures in robot path planning, and Little creatures forming colonies.

By: MonkeyMeat

MonkeyMeat — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:40:14 -0800

The MIT Media Lab Aesthetics & Computation Group is a great place to start. Its director, John Maeda, and some of its students have produced some work you'll enjoy- Golan Levin in particular has made some striking pieces. They also created processing, which you might be interested in if you're looking to create your own interactive art.

By: revgeorge

revgeorge — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:53:50 -0800

I like btsim, a BitTorrent simulator. Explains the nature of the protocol visually and interactively.

By: mkn

mkn — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:56:57 -0800

Ben Fry (from the above MIT Lab) does some cool visualization stuff and is one of the guys that created processing.

By: zpousman

zpousman — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:57:20 -0800

Along the same lines as Ken P, John Maeda, Ben Fry, is Martin Wattenberg. He works at IBM Research in Cambridge, MA. And he's a viz (as in "information visualization") guy and java rockkkkstar! His personal site is bewitched.com. He recently built a java app for seeing baby names over the last 100 years.

By: metaculpa

metaculpa — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:08:34 -0800

Isn't processing technically Java?

By: metaculpa

metaculpa — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:09:06 -0800

Okay! Not so much with the reading other comments. Sorry about that.

By: hooray

hooray — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:09:07 -0800

Have you checked out the Exhibition page on Processing? I love Jared Tarbell's work.Amit Pitaru's Sonic Wire Scupltor is also great.

And if it doesn't have to be Java, check out Messa di Voce which I think is done in Jitter.

By: arrowhead

arrowhead — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:53:26 -0800

I used to see some interesting stuff at www.nikkki.net.
At time of writing the website loads very s-l-o-w-l-y and I've lost patience. Maybe you guys might find something there.