over the weekend i dug up some old ribbons code with the idea of projecting video onto the ribbons as texture. the results turned out interesting although the clarity of the video got lost in the frantic flocking of the ribbons. was actually hoping for a fragmanted but yet coherent video image and this probably will be the direction i’ll be taking when building upon this experiment.
here are some of the results, the first one is using my favourite jelly video that i break out at every occasion.
ribbon jelly from julaps on Vimeo.
this one was using a vj loop of space invaders, strong primary colours and you can see how it creates a completely different texture.
ribbon invaders from julaps on Vimeo.
thought id also share the source and really like to hear from you if you do something cool with it. ive exported the source straight out of eclipse which is my IDE of choice for working with processing, so it might take a few minutes to copy and paste it into the processing IDE but its pretty straight forward.
im also using toxi’s awesome geomutils library which you’ll need to run the sketch.
