Complex Electronic Moire Realisation

Complex Electronic Moire Realisation is an electronic woven exploration using line textures, traveling mattes and overlays. It is also an exercise in pure video synthesis - video imagery generated by entirely electronic means. although not plotted by computer, it is animated by software. In this case, Microsoft Photostory 3 provides the animated motion paths. The building block of the work is the lined video frame, and variations on this theme using positive and negative variations. Animated moire effects are produced using the positive and negative coloured overlays to create interesting and unusual optical combinations. It was the EMS Spectron Video Synthesizer that provided this inspiration. The imagery that this machine could produce has been in part mimicked to a lesser extent. An animated textile pattern has been produced - an electronic weave of imagery needing to reveal what lies within. The patterns were created by an image divided by binary stripes, then processed to create multiple versions of itself either tilted or modulated. This still image was then made to move with pan and zoom motion paths. Such patterns include:

Herringbone Weave (a moire pattern made with binary stripes)
Tight Mesh Arrangement (a version of the Colour Weave Amocal, creating a darker composite mix using negatives)
Harlequin Motions (diamond moire pattern with coloured sections)
Diamond Moire Textile (diamond pattern with coloured sections, double overlay)
Modulating S-Curves (serpentine checkerboard pattern with a 50% mix of positive and negative images)
Rainbow Serpentine Waves (a variation on the Modulating S-Curves, creating an outline-like design where only the edges are visible)
Blue Moire Weave (an intricate moire pattern with receding line values moving in complementary directions)
Colour Weave Amocal (a modulated line pattern, superimposed over a version of itself)
Tight Weave (a complex version of the Herringbone Weave pattern, but doubled)

Each of these sequences created the main background texture. A superimposed overlay was added to this, consisting of versions of some of the above moire effects and filtered through a dark mask creating openings whereby parts of the image could be revealed. This then became the composite mix. The result is an electronic weave of line and form, coloured electronically to produce visual combinations reminiscent of analogue animation techniques. Original music complements the visuals, and consists of sequences, rhythms and sequence effects using hardware and software synthesizers.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• video
• synthesis
• synthesizer
• moire
• electronic
• videography
• patterns
• textures
• weave
• superimpose
• overlays
• analog
• analogue
• digital
• Photostory
• modulation
• mesh
• animation
• experimental
• abstract
• sequence
• positive
• negative
• EMS
• Spectron
• herringbone
• binary
• stripes
• motion
• path
• surreal
• geometry
• imagery
• additive
• subtractive
• composite
• graphics
• interference
• logic
• mix
• sinewaves
• overlay
• optical
• textile

[wakeupfist]

I've seen a lot of computational visual art but I always wondered what procedural music would sound like. Maybe one day mankind will create robots that could compose. :P

[buchla300]

Fabulous! Love it



[keesvangelis]

very good music