GMU:Dataflow I WS12/Jeremy - Revision history

Ms: moved GMU:Dataflow I/Jeremy to GMU:Dataflow I WS12/Jeremy: Prepare for Dataflow I in SS 2013

2013-10-14T05:59:40Z

moved GMU:Dataflow I/Jeremy to GMU:Dataflow I WS12/Jeremy: Prepare for Dataflow I in SS 2013

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Coci5624: /* documentation */

2013-03-27T20:34:23Z

documentation

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	Wild geese write a line		Wild geese write a line

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Coci5624 at 20:32, 27 March 2013

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 photographer unknown
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 The text being used is sourced from Japanese haiku poetry, translated into English. The poets include Buson (1715-1783), Basho (1644-1694), and Buson (1715-1783) and other major poets to make use of the Haiku.
-The Haiku often presents a contrast or a 'cutting' aspect, including the juxtaposiition of text and image. This is a key aspect of my use of the two, and allowing a pure data patch to perform a simple and traditional act.
+Traditionally, the Haiku presents a contrast or a 'cutting' aspect, including the juxtaposiition of text and image.
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Coci5624 at 16:30, 29 January 2013

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			==limitations==

			The moses patch is at prototype stage and obviously has many limitations. These include:

			Limited range of outcomes from images of similar tone. Black and white images will mostly return a similar result unless the text file is changed in between.

			Only 48 possible lines of text.

			The scale of numbers that can be triggered need to be more finely studied in relation to the most common ranges of values.

			Ideally the patch would export a new text file in response to each image. ideally, the patch would somehow combine the text and image into a new jpg file, for example.

			It would also be great if the patch would communicate with another patch, which would jumble the lines of poetry for it.


			These considerations all require further work

Coci5624: /* documentation */

2013-01-29T16:04:28Z

documentation

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			[[File:Girl 1943.jpg]]

			White they meet

			Scatters in the night ... now see

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Coci5624: /* how does it work? */

2013-01-28T16:54:51Z

how does it work?

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	Moses reads the RGB levels in an image by using the 'pix mean color' object. These levels are 'unpacked' and channeled into three different but identical sub-patches. Here, the levels filter through an number of 'moses' objects that result in the incoming value aligning with one of sixteen possible numbers. These numbers are outputed from each of the three identical sub-patches into another sub-patch. This sub-patch uses a 'textfile' object. The three incoming numbers dictate which lines from the textfile are to be used. These lines of text are extratced from the file and printed into the dialogue window.		Moses reads the RGB levels in an image by using the 'pix mean color' object. These levels are 'unpacked' and channeled into three different but identical sub-patches. Here, the levels filter through an number of 'moses' objects that result in the incoming value aligning with one of sixteen possible numbers. These numbers are outputed from each of the three identical sub-patches into another sub-patch. This sub-patch uses a 'textfile' object. The three incoming numbers dictate which lines from the textfile are to be used. These lines of text are extratced from the file and printed into the dialogue window.

			[[File:Moses.pd]]

			[[File:Haiku.SacredTexts.1.txt]]

	== documentation ==		== documentation ==

Coci5624: /* documentation */

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documentation

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	== documentation ==		== documentation ==

			[[File:1407 girl024 med.jpg]]

			Comical Dutch script

			Flip-flapping across the sky

			In this windy nest


	[[File:Student woodworking class.jpg]]		[[File:Student woodworking class.jpg]]

Coci5624 at 21:15, 27 January 2013

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			[[File:Portraitofachild.jpg]]

			The songs of froglings

			Our old scarecrow topples down

			In silent midnight

Coci5624: /* documentation */

2013-01-27T20:59:53Z

documentation

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	~~Wild geese write a line~~		But their ancient song

	Flip-flapping across the sky		Flip-flapping across the sky

	~~But their ancient song~~		Wild geese write a line

Coci5624 at 20:57, 27 January 2013

2013-01-27T20:57:42Z

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	Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916		Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916

	photographer unknown		photographer unknown

	~~==My Project==~~		==background==

	===background===

	From the very beginning I wanted to use PD to perform some kind of human function, to reveal some form of judgement or thought process which would speak about its own inability to do so. And so I wanted to create some kind of patch that would interest itself in the nature of computer programming, while also displaying some level of critical self awareness.

	~~===~~the ~~image===~~		I wanted to use Pure Data to perform some kind of human function, to reveal some form of judgement or thought process which would speak about its own inability to do so. And so I wanted to create some kind of patch that would interest itself in the nature of computer programming, while also displaying some level of self awareness.

	I decided to pursue the idea of a dadaist rearrangement of text based on images. I was thinking about the ways in which the Dadaists used the idea of automatic and chance-based occurances in order to remove or at least diffuse their own artistic control and intention over an artwork. This led me to the idea that images could be an interesting starting point~~, and that I could use PD~~ to perform ~~some kind of human (albeit dadaist) function in 'reading' the images~~ and ~~using them to~~ compose ~~text in some way; the idea being that this 'reading' would vary in accordance with the image being used~~ and thereby create the illusion of personality or ~~discernment on the part of the patch~~.		I decided to pursue the idea of a dadaist rearrangement of text based on images. I was thinking about the ways in which the Dadaists used the idea of automatic and chance-based occurances in order to remove or at least diffuse their own artistic control and intention over an artwork. This led me to the idea that images could be an interesting starting point to perform and compose and thereby create the illusion of some form of personality or discernmen.

	==Moses==		==Moses==

	~~===what does~~ Moses ~~do?===~~		My patch is called Moses, it composes haiku poetry, or rather, recomposes the lines of poetry that are available to it in response to an image.

	~~Moses composes haiku poetry, or rather, recomposes~~ the ~~lines~~ of ~~poetry that are available to it in response~~ to an ~~image~~.		The images used are all sourced from the internet and have no known photographer. In selecting these images I am interested in the idea of a deficient human element. Found images can sometimes feel personal to us and the narrative elements reveal themselves quickly. At the same time, an everyday or observed feeling reminds us that we can detach ourselves from them and their subjects quite readily.

	~~===~~the ~~idea===~~		The text being used is sourced from Japanese haiku poetry, translated into English. The poets include Buson (1715-1783), Basho (1644-1694), and Buson (1715-1783) and other major poets to make use of the Haiku.

	~~Obviously there are~~ two ~~variables in the~~ patch ~~which guide it, conceptually: imagery~~ and ~~text~~.		The Haiku often presents a contrast or a 'cutting' aspect, including the juxtaposiition of text and image. This is a key aspect of my use of the two, and allowing a pure data patch to perform a simple and traditional act.

	''The imgages'' being used are all located on the internet. Furthermore, they are located on the basis that they are the work of an 'unknown photographer'. In selecting these images I am interested in the idea of a deficient human element in the image. Photography is essentially the act of a machine and the direction in which photography is heading is increasingly removing the significance of the human as an operator of image capturing devices. This is something I am interested in and I felt it was interesting grounds for my pure data patch to explore.		==how does it work?==

	''The text'' being used is also drawn from the internet. It is Japanese haiku poetry, translated into English, from some of the most significant poets to make use of the Haiku. I was interested in using this text sourse, specifically, for two reasons. Firstly, the Haiku has always been a thing of contrast. Traditionally, Haiku poetry has a 'cutting' aspects whereby two


	===how does ~~Moses~~ work?===

	Moses reads the RGB levels in an image by using the 'pix mean color' object. These levels are 'unpacked' and channeled into three different but identical sub-patches. Here, the levels filter through an number of 'moses' objects that result in the incoming value aligning with one of sixteen possible numbers. These numbers are outputed from each of the three identical sub-patches into another sub-patch. This sub-patch uses a 'textfile' object. The three incoming numbers dictate which lines from the textfile are to be used. These lines of text are extratced from the file and printed into the dialogue window.		Moses reads the RGB levels in an image by using the 'pix mean color' object. These levels are 'unpacked' and channeled into three different but identical sub-patches. Here, the levels filter through an number of 'moses' objects that result in the incoming value aligning with one of sixteen possible numbers. These numbers are outputed from each of the three identical sub-patches into another sub-patch. This sub-patch uses a 'textfile' object. The three incoming numbers dictate which lines from the textfile are to be used. These lines of text are extratced from the file and printed into the dialogue window.

			== documentation ==

	~~The~~

	== ~~Results~~ ==

	[[File:Student woodworking class.jpg]]		[[File:Student woodworking class.jpg]]
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	~~But their ancient song~~		Wild geese write a line

	Flip-flapping across the sky		Flip-flapping across the sky

	~~Wild geese write a line~~		But their ancient song