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- Ghost Pole Propagator II
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- Streamer
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- Self-Adherence (for Written Images)
- Poster design for Maeda lecture
- The Role of Relative Velocity
- Segmentation and Symptom
- Floccular Portraits
- Curatorial
- Mobile Art && Code
- ART AND CODE
- Code, Form, Space
- IEEE InfoVis 2008 Art Exhibition
- Solo exhibition at bitforms gallery
- IEEE InfoVis 2007 Art Exhibition
- Signal Operators
- Commercial / Industrial
- Motion Traces [A1 Corridor]
- Civic Exchange Prototype
- Amore Pacific Display
- Interactive Logographs
- Interval Projects
- Media Streams Icons
- Miscellaneous
- NeoLucida
- Rectified Flowers
- GML Experiments
- New Year Cards
- Admitulator
- Glharf (or Glarf)
- Finger Spies
Directrix
1998 | Golan Levin
Directrix (1998: Golan Levin) is an interactive drawing environment in which users can quickly generate animated "pseudo-parabolas." These complex curves are the result of an interplay between a set of dynamic and static gestures performed by the user. When several of these curves are layered together, the results can vary from sparse and delicate constructions of gently curved lines, to violently twitching, thatchy masses.
Directrix creates images from a generalized model of parabolas. In classical geometry, a parabola is defined as the set of points which are equidistant from a special point called the focus, and a straight line called the directrix. The Directrix environment was designed to explore the implications of two premises: firstly, that the shape of a parabola's directrix could be the personal gesture of a user, and secondly, that its focus could be a moving point animated along the trace of a user's recorded gesture. Directrix is interesting because of the interplay it establishes between a strictly spatial specification (the directrix) and a spatio-temporal one (the path of the focus).
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