A Society of Stickpeople

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A Society of Stickpeople

• Originally a class project to experiment with
• Low-level OpenGL animation
• Finite State Machines
• Population dynamics
• Created a digital sandbox

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A Society of Stickpeople

• What to look for

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A Society of Stickpeople

• Demo original program

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A Society of Stickpeople

• Revisiting the program led to a new artistic goal
• Population dynamics and inherent randomness
  create different outcomes with each execution
• Is there a way to represent the entire
  evolution of the Society of Stickpeople in one
  image?

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Art History Gives Inspiration

• Chronophotography (late 1800s)
• Eadweard Muybridge

• Etienne-Jules Marey

• Marcel Duchamp

• Going backwards for aesthetics
• Goal visually pleasing images that reveal
  something about the Society of Stickpeople

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Digital Chronophotography

• Early attempts recorded the realtime output as
  video and post-processed it

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Digital Chronophotography

• Use OpenGLs flexibility a much better idea
• Set the opacity of all elements very low (1)
• Dont clear the screen between frames
• Give myself a way to save images (pbuffer)
• Demo modified program

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Digital Chronophotography

• The result digital chronophotography
• Also reminiscent of long-exposure photography

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Digital Chronophotography

• Post-processing in Photoshop refines images
• Raw output

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Digital Chronophotography

• Post-processing in Photoshop refines images
• Curves adjustment layer

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Digital Chronophotography

• Post-processing in Photoshop refines images
• Vertical gradient, hard light blending, 50
  opacity

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Digital Chronophotography

• Post-processing in Photoshop refines images
• Side gradients, multiply blending, 21 opacity

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Digital Chronophotography

• Future Development
• Create more interactivity
• Increase complexity of behaviors
• Use as a learning tool
• Record the accumulation process
• Print larger with more detail