January 10, 2009

Primordial Soup Installation_Studio XX

Primordial Soup
allison moore 2008
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Documentation of my video installation at studio xx.  Project funded by the  Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Primordial Soup is an interactive video installation based on the process of evolution.

The project integrates open source softwares such as Pure Data, GEM and Arduino 11 with motion sensors.

Primordial Soup features animations of microbial forms I draw in Flash CS3.

 The animations are then imported in PD and made independent using Boids algorithm. Developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986

, Boids is an artificial life program, simulating the flocking behavior

 of birds. Boids work in a manner similar to cellular automata since each boid "acts" autonomously 

and references a neighborhood, as do cellular automata.


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