LWJGL project, "live" in New York city

napier · November 13, 2005, 18:12:56

I've been working with LWJGL for about two years and have enjoyed the process enormously. It's a great tool and a very supportive community. I just reached a milestone in a long project that I've been working on and wanted to let you all know, partly out of excitement, partly as a thank you, and also to let you know what I'm doing with LWJGL.

I don't make games, I'm a digital artist and make interactive artwork using java/opengl. I often treat openGL like a drawing or painting tool, using textures and pbuffers to build up images in many translucent layers.

Some screenshots:
   http://potatoland.com/kk2/kk3_1
   http://potatoland.com/kk2/kk3_skyline
   http://potatoland.com/kk2/kk3_light

I'm in a show in New York city till December 3rd, where I have three computers running interactive pieces in a gallery. Images and info are online at http://potatoland.org/empire

If anyone's in the NYC area let me know. I'd love to hook up and talk shop sometime.

mark

middy · November 13, 2005, 19:24:27

Heh if napier allows it Mazon should post it as use-case

CaseyB · November 13, 2005, 20:12:39

I would love to see your show! I'm driving into the city on the 2nd I won't be getting in until pretty late, but I see that the gallery is open from 11-6 on saturdays. If your not busy I'd love to see your work and get a chance to talk a bit!

Matzon · November 13, 2005, 21:07:22

excellent stuff! - I always love when people deploy lwjgl in a finished product, and strangely enough even more so when it's deployed in ways I wouldn't have imagined.

As for a use case, I wouldn't know what to write

Do write a follow-up after the 3rd on how it went.

princec · November 14, 2005, 20:00:02

Oh! Now they are excellent pieces. A fantastic showcase of fine art, if I may say so.

Cas

napier · November 15, 2005, 05:45:36

Thanks for the feedback. It's been a challenge learning openGL, trying out java bindings, etc. but the results are very solid. I run these pieces on laptops with ATI 9700 cards. The LCD panels are 1920x1200 and I'm doing full framebuffer copies to texture each frame. Still getting about 60 fps, which is plenty for the kind of animation I'm doing.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Orangy Tang · November 15, 2005, 17:06:31

That looks rather nice, is there any way to see it moving (other than going to see it

).

crash0veride007 · November 16, 2005, 00:07:17

Those are wicked! Awesome job!
JGLMark could use a good artist such as yourself, if you are interested shoot me a mail.

napier · November 16, 2005, 17:37:31

Quoteis there any way to see it moving (other than going to see it ).

I plan to put some of these online with webstart. Just haven't gotten there yet.

There's a short video online: http://bitforms.com/exhibition_pop_napier5_vid.html

(doesn't work on my PC, but is fine on Mac)

numberR · November 16, 2005, 23:12:56

simply amazing

kramer · November 19, 2005, 12:58:54

Really impressive, napier.

Hopefully one day we'll see your stuff on scene.org

crash0veride007 · November 21, 2005, 05:10:35

Keep an eye on JGLMark, for more of Napier's incredible visuals.... :wink:

CaseyB · December 05, 2005, 15:13:26

I got to see his show this weekend and it was amazing! The still shots really don't do justice to the actual works! I could have stood there for hours playing with them!

darkprophet · December 06, 2005, 01:04:02

you did record it on video camera....didn't you?

CaseyB · December 06, 2005, 02:21:48

:roll: I didn't have a video camera with me! I took a still camera, but decided that wouldn't do it justice! Maybe after the show we can get him to put it up via websart or a video of it or something like that.

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