Ok I really am a nerd but I find it fascinating!

Water Bell & Sheet Fluid Dynamics 

Waterdrop crown with a thousand holes 

Sphere of Water on the space station

Above is a still of a sphere of water floating in zero gravity with an antacid tablet placed inside it!!

Some of these found at The gallery of fluid dynamics 

If there ever was a point where one could have too much inspiration, the point where sweetness becomes sickening this has to be it for me. I’ve spent the past couple days researching Processing, Learning processing, and checking out as many process-centric sites as I can find such as…

Complexification.net - This site is one of the gems of the internet as it not only provides something beautiful to random visitors without requiring high level understanding of whats happening, yet for the heavy duty geeks it provides all the source code for each project, the layout is beautiful and well fitted to exploring.

My favorite is the Jackson Pollack color inspired, Piet Mondrian does a City from above generative abstract art piece called substrate. Ive taken a few screen shots of iterations.

Other favorites of mine from the site include Node Garden and Henon Phase

Jared Tarbell is the mind behind most of these creations and I’ve found another what I assume to be, older site, of his Levitated.net with more code and applets including a golden spiral applet, an XML/processing navigation

A six piece no-man band playing Gnarls Barkley - Crazy. The robotic theremin is the sanest piece of gear in the ensemble, on the other end of the spectrum is a uhhhh a robotic box of stoned wheat thins?!?

Commence maniacal mad scientist laughter.
Bwuahahahahahaha!

Ok I am absolutely geeked out on Processing right now. Its an open source design oriented programming language.

Check out Moving Brands - Muon launch first - this is simply incredible! Audio responsive graphics that looks like the audio!

Or perhaps you’de like to draw your dreams? This applet applies a variety of algorithms to images matching your keyword and creates better abstract art than most of your friends in art school.

As mentioned in the previous post Andrew Bells’ Wisteria applet is nice and even looks like something Oliver Vernon would paint.

Short on friends? Draw some

Some More Generative Art

Here is a map of the london underground which when clicked the map reorganizes itself by travel distance.

Im very much looking forward to creating my own and sharing soon. Stay Tuned

Abstract Machine created a musical instrument that uses the color patterns on a rubiks cube to generate sequences.

Read the blog post from the creator

I like that it reminds me of philip glass and am inspired by the thought that perhaps every household item might be able to make music at some point in the near future by various algorithmic processes.

Grab a towel to mop up your puddle of drool and prepare to sell your current midi controllers to get a Monome!

But of course you’ll want to check it out before you buy so heres David Phipps of STS9 demoing his 8×16

Oh did I mention it was open source and there is a community of people writing programs for it including Cellular Automata, Brainwave devices, Controllers, Interactive visualizations, heres a video interview with the creators

First Pachebels Canon on the Hydraulophone

Followed by a rant about pachebel to even things out a bit

The sounds of electricity is among my favorite, and this is probably the coolest homemade instruments I’ve ever seen.