“Swarm” by Shiffman
Description:
Overview
Swarm is an interactive video installation that implements the pattern of flocking birds (using Craig Reynold’s “Boids” model) as a constantly moving brush stroke. Taking inspiration from Jackson Pollack’s “drip and splash” technique of pouring a continuous stream of paint onto a canvas, Swarm smears colors captured from live video input, producing an organic painterly effect in real-time.
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References
ROSENBERG, H. 1952. The American Action Painters, Artnews. In Modern Art in the USA, 150-53.
GOOCH, B. and GOOCH, A. 2001. Non-Photorealistic Rendering. A.K. Peters, 1.
GOOCH, B. and GOOCH, A., 1-2.
REYNOLDS, C. W. 1987. Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model. In Computer Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 87) , 21, 4, ACM, 25-34.
