The air around us is brimming with activity. In the United States, most bands are dedicated to commercial and government broadcasts, packed with strange uses like radio astronomy or aeronautical mobile satellite. The visualization below goes to show what a …
Author Archives: Ben Snell
Image Database Project: Torsos
Adam Milner, an MFA student in the School of Art, manually collected 7,000 images of torsos from Grindr over the course of a few years. I’m currently collaborating with him to computationally analyze the dataset, searching for new forms of …
BenSnell-Project3-Interim
I’ve chosen the Teenie Harris Archive from the Carnegie Museums because it represents an immense collection of one man’s photographic work over the course of his entire career. Teenie Harris was an avid photographer from the Hill District of Pittsburgh …
Project Ideas: Place
I would like to continue working with the UR5 for this project, stepping up the complexity of movements to create more natural, realistic form. I have begun to research, understand, and model the movement of the human hand and brush …
Human + Robot Collaborative Drawings
I began exploring the capabilities of the UR5 robotic arm by programming it to draw. It’s possible to speak with the robot by sending it commands over OSC, but the server side controls are still being developed, so I decided …
Admiration of Peer Projects
One of the Gauntlet projects I was most intrigued by was Guy’s tapestry bot, which “wove” together images vertically by matching similar top and bottom edges.
I would be incredibly curious to see if one could analyze the “flow” of …
Looking Outwards: Liquid Haptics
In 1998, Tom White did a considerable amount of research into liquid haptics, encompassed in his paper “Introducing Liquid Haptics in High Bandwidth Human Computer Interfaces”. In it, he describes a growing body of work in which he takes …
Bot Luminaten
Bot Luminaten welcomes you to join the Illuminati with a personalized ambigram.
I made a twitter bot that welcomes people to join the Illuminati in return for an ambigram of their twitter screen name. (code here)
Making this …
Meteorite Maps and Baby-Naming Book
Using all 34k recorded Meteorite strikes, compiled by Nick Felton, I made two visualizations in OpenFrameworks (code here).
The first visualization is a map that plots the strikes on a globe against a colored background indicating population density. …
LIDAR Timelapse
Explorable 3D timelapses generated from intimate LIDAR captures.
Using ofxTimeline, ofxMSATimer, ofxRange, ofxTimecode, and ofxTween, I made an app that takes large LIDAR captures (in this case, over a period of 8 hours), visualizes a planned animation of the space, …