Forking Claude’s rdex-client

by pixelpusher on Saturday 12 December 2009
[Blog]

reaction diffusion visuals on the GPU in Fluxus

As part of MakeArt 2009’s theme, forking (taking someone’s code and altering it so it becomes a new project built on top of it), I’ve forked Claude Heiland-Allen’s (claudius maximus) excellent rdex-client into an open source fluxus project on googlecode.

What this does is (from Claude’s site):

rdex-client is an installation that explores in an autonomous hyperspace mathematical model, searching for interesting emergent behaviour (life-alike, alife).

The model is a kind of continuous non-linear cellular automaton, based on partial differential equations representing chemistry of two reagents involving reaction and diffusion.

The mathematical equations of the model have four parameters, that need to be set to concrete values when running the simulation. rdex-client explores this 4D parameter space at random.

(the fluxus version doesn’t do the sophisticated analysis stuff yet, like Claude’s does)

Openlab4 – A Night of Free Everything

by pixelpusher on Tuesday 4 December 2007
[Blog, Past Performances]

Nov. 25, 2007

Here in the European heart of global finance that is London, there are no shortage of closed, corporate-sponsored, invite-only events promoting proprietary products with secret formulas and patented ideas. A refreshing break from this trend is the perennial [tag]Openlab[/tag] series of events, now in its fourth incarnation. Openlab is a loose collective of artists, computer industry professionals, and performers whose main goal is to spread free software an ideas through events with talks, workshops, and performances.

Openlab4 took place 25 November at Melange, an aspiring art-friendly venue just north of east London’s art-clogged arteries of Old Street and Shoreditch. Read more… »

25 November 2007, Openlab 4 @ Melange

by pixelpusher on Tuesday 13 November 2007
[Past Performances, Performances]

Openlab4

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25th Nov 2007
Free Software and ideas
talks + music + visuals + performances

brought to you by Openlab

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