The Start Of Something…

I just felt the spark of inspiration.

I have been toiling away on a as3 generative art project that combines augmented reality, wiiflash control, papervision3d and beautiful organic tree structures for the last two weeks. It has consumed much of my attention, causing me to skip class and almost miss deadlines. It is the kind of project that is ripe with discovery and wonder. Since I appreciate math, but ended my studies with Math G: Math for Liberal Arts Students, I have no advanced knowledge of the trigonometry that was required to make this work. Yet, I continued to pursue a solution; pouring over math books and google searches, trying numerous formula’s until one seemed to fit and then refining that loose fit into a properly functioning algorithm. This would have been short work for a Trig student but it would have come with only a fraction of the satisfaction.

Through visual programming I see a way to learn about the world around me. I have never been able to truly learn by just listening, I have to go hands-on if I ever really want to get something. Although I have always enjoyed math class, I became bored around the grade where people started questioning “Are we really going to use this in REAL LIFE?”. The formulas and theory that must be memorized was a huge turn-off for me. With visual programming, and generative art in particular, I can explore the effect of any number of mathematical theories.

This is a very simple test of the CubeTree program.