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Martin Wattenberg: Connect the Dots, 2002

Comment by John Klima: Super-tight code, it\'s remarkable how much can occur with a bare minimum of instructions. It\'s interesting to note that the majority of Java coders -- Mark, Martin, Scott, and Camille (though in C) -- all created visually driven work; they approached the task of connecting three points purely in a graphic sense. Yet within that confine, each produced a distinct variation on the theme.

 

Technology: Java Applet

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Comment by John Klima: Super-tight code, it\'s remarkable how much can occur with a bare minimum of instructions. It\'s interesting to note that the majority of Java coders -- Mark, Martin, Scott, and Camille (though in C) -- all created visually driven work; they approached the task of connecting three points purely in a graphic sense. Yet within that confine, each produced a distinct variation on the theme.

 

Technology: Java Applet

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Martin Wattenberg, Code Layers, 2002
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Camille Utterback, linescape.cpp, 2002
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Keywords:
  • Aesthetics
    • Adaptive
    • Processual
  • Genre
    • Digital Graphics
  • Subject
    • Abstracta
      • space
    • Art and Sciences
      • Algorithm
      • Code
    • Information and Media
      • Drawing
  • Technology and media
    • Software


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Comment by Brad Paley: "I have taken the liberty of "instrumenting" your program with the calls necessary for my program (CodeProfiler) to profile them. http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/CodeProfiler/ConnectAppletProfiles.html This is my way of commenting on your code, per our charter." Martin Wattenberg: "I decided the most natural way to comment on Brad's profiler was to profile it by creating a remix. He did a pretty amazing job of showing the sequential movement and rhythm of the execution point... so I tried to show the opposite in my remix, exploring the parallel operations happening at any given moment. Click here to watch my program profiling his program profiling itself. http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/CodeLayers/MetaProfile.html My remix is a subclass of his and follows the same protocol, so the other instrumented programs can be plugged in as well... on the page above you'll also see links to profiled versions of Scott's applet and mine. (It actually shows distinct differences between all of our approaches to threading, although this may be of interest only to programmers!)
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Martin Wattenberg, Code Layers, 2002
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