Sunday, October 14, 2007

Leonardo Solaas software art


Beautiful, enchanting - I could play with these programs for hours. 'Dreamlines' is my favorite, watching the image appear, move and change is magical.

Dreamlines is a non-linear, interactive visual experience. The user enters one or more words that define the subject of a dream he would like to dream. The system looks in the Web for images related to those words, and takes them as input to generate an ambiguous painting, in perpetual change, where elements fuse into one another, in a process analogous to memory and free association.

Autopoemador takes a poem, or any text, and makes a random audiovisual experience out of it. It is an automatic poem reader, that literally processes words and makes something different out of them: a language, chaos or order, in which clear understanding and communication do not matter any more.

Autopintador is a paint program with a will of its own. The user has a strokes palette and several control tools. When drawing, though, the strokes move around the screen by themselves, and eventually disappear. The outcome is a painting in movement, that results from the interaction between user and machine. It is a game of forms and colors, that discloses it’s possibilities with playing and experimentation.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Iri I was looking through my short cuts in my Favories file. I saw something that said Blue Skies over a Redhead and it was this profile. I ended up playing with these programs and they are awsome. Just like you. Your friend ..Ted..