free time = my latest project
No talk on the cages this time, that bullshit must wait. I’ve decided to work on a new piece of art that can basically be summed up as 3D visualization of software processes/computation. I would like to be able to run a program and step through the entire process with complete forward/backward capability and the ability to move the camera/view around this visualization. I’m not sure what the end result will be but imagine this - one can open this tool and then record a specific process, then play the whole thing back through an aesthetically pleasing artistic display. I feel it would be intriguing enough to draw people in if done well, maybe drawing some kids into computing the way I was as a child. I’m classifying it as art to avoid any temptations to make it some 3D debugger tool used by developers. That would bring too much responsibility and hence become a pain in the ass. This tool will be entirely self-indulgent.
I have yet to decide on 3D platform but I basically have a choice of direct X or open GL combined with either c++, c# or object-C depending on if I use the mac or use my windows platform. I have much more experience with c# so I will probably lean that way, although object-c/open GL is interesting and seems fairly straight forward from the things I’ve done.
I think a good prototype might be a simple breadboard type of display where the abstractions are very very simple and then go from there. Who knows what I can find, maybe a better way to view running programs will come out of it. Or maybe just some pretty pictures. Either way, it gives me something to work on.
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