i like to make computer generated visual effects. this includes still images, animation, realtime screen hacks, eye candy, visual muzak, digital video feedback, mathematical visualization, algorithmic collage, etc. In general i work by writing programs and creating their datafiles; the final pixels are always produced automatically. Still jpeg images, mpeg animation, and source code are all available on the web at my online gallery http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spot/images.html. If you haven't seen the pictures yet, don't bother reading this.

These sections describe the programs i've written and how they work:

• flame iterated function systems (IFS)
  • math behind IFS
• color cmaps, how i build them
• fuse scrambled images
• slip pixel flow
• bomb combination of above plus interactivity and CAs

related work

John Whitney Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art ISBN 0-07-070015-X

dave tristram's electro-paint.

After Dark and various screen saver archives.

Karl Sims, also his SIGGRAPH91 paper Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics.

Evolutionary Art and Computers; Todd, Steven and William Latham; Academic Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers; 1992; ISBN 0-12-437185-X