Comments on: Visual Harmony http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/ Interactive art, experimental software toys, screensavers and games by Jim Bumgardner. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:46:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Dan Piker’s Whitney Variations http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-2/#comment-42388 KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Dan Piker’s Whitney Variations Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:25:26 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-42388 [...] a recent comment here on KrazyDad, Daniel Piker shared some flash variations he made recently of the John [...] [...] a recent comment here on KrazyDad, Daniel Piker shared some flash variations he made recently of the John [...]

]]> By: jbum http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-2/#comment-42335 jbum Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:51:30 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-42335 Great stuff Dan! I added a blog entry to highlight your work. Looking forward to seeing more! Great stuff Dan! I added a blog entry to highlight your work. Looking forward to seeing more!

]]> By: Dan http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-1/#comment-42334 Dan Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:19:14 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-42334 Awesome stuff, this inspired me to go back to doing some flash animation. I had fun creating some other variations: One with semicircles: http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1906895_dzgih/WhitneyBW.swf One very colourful one - The complementary colours at the half-way point are nice: http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1907014_ooag3/colourwheel.swf and one where the elements are arrayed on a grid, not overlayed on the same point: http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1907015_p75ba/turngrid.swf I've done something a bit different in the first 2 to continue further out on the circle: In the originals, as you move out from the centre each layer does one less rotation per cycle. I've continued this with a stationary layer, then layers which rotate in the opposite direction at increasing numbers of turns per cycle. As you can see the result is a fairly natural looking continuation - I didnt add any sound yet, but It might be interesting. My own interest is very much on the geometrical side and I can see some very interesting links to inversion, stereographic projection and loxodromes. I'll be posting more about these on my website soon Awesome stuff, this inspired me to go back to doing some flash animation.
I had fun creating some other variations:

One with semicircles:
http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1906895_dzgih/WhitneyBW.swf

One very colourful one – The complementary colours at the half-way point are nice:
http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1907014_ooag3/colourwheel.swf

and one where the elements are arrayed on a grid, not overlayed on the same point:
http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1907015_p75ba/turngrid.swf

I’ve done something a bit different in the first 2 to continue further out on the circle:
In the originals, as you move out from the centre each layer does one less rotation per cycle.
I’ve continued this with a stationary layer, then layers which rotate in the opposite direction at increasing numbers of turns per cycle.
As you can see the result is a fairly natural looking continuation – I didnt add any sound yet, but It might be interesting.
My own interest is very much on the geometrical side and I can see some very interesting links to inversion, stereographic projection and loxodromes.
I’ll be posting more about these on my website soon

]]> By: The Ultimate Insult | Blog Archive | Visual Harmony http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-1/#comment-41258 The Ultimate Insult | Blog Archive | Visual Harmony Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:29:49 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-41258 [...] Visual Harmony The Whitney Music Box is a cool idea that I can’t explain properly. Read more about it here. [...] [...] Visual Harmony The Whitney Music Box is a cool idea that I can’t explain properly. Read more about it here. [...]

]]> By: jbum http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-1/#comment-41030 jbum Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:15:53 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-41030 Hi Greg, The book that accompanied the Visual Music exhibition has a pretty good overview of the field... http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Music-Synaesthesia-Since-1900/dp/0500512175 Hi Greg,

The book that accompanied the Visual Music exhibition has a pretty good overview of the field…

http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Music-Synaesthesia-Since-1900/dp/0500512175

]]> By: ledhed2222 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-1/#comment-41015 ledhed2222 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:36:37 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-41015 This is pretty interesting work, Jim. Can you recommend some further reading for me on related subjects? This is pretty interesting work, Jim. Can you recommend some further reading for me on related subjects?

]]> By: bob http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-1/#comment-21232 bob Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:43:07 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-21232 I love what's been done here. I think it might be interesting to see if this concept could be somehow adapted or integrated into a performance setting, perhaps incorporating live players. It'd also be interesting to try varying other parameters besides pitch. Very amazing, thanks for this. I love what’s been done here. I think it might be interesting to see if this concept could be somehow adapted or integrated into a performance setting, perhaps incorporating live players. It’d also be interesting to try varying other parameters besides pitch. Very amazing, thanks for this.

]]> By: mlarson.org » http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-1/#comment-6073 mlarson.org » Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:04:54 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-6073 [...] I’m pretty much fascinated with the Whitney Music Box, which explores some of the ideas in John Whitney’s 1959 book Digital Harmony. I like the microtonal variation, and the sine wave harmonics are cool because harmonics are inherently cool. Jim Bumgardner wrote more about this project and some of the mathematics of the patterns in his blog. [...] [...] I’m pretty much fascinated with the Whitney Music Box, which explores some of the ideas in John Whitney’s 1959 book Digital Harmony. I like the microtonal variation, and the sine wave harmonics are cool because harmonics are inherently cool. Jim Bumgardner wrote more about this project and some of the mathematics of the patterns in his blog. [...]

]]> By: Tai Mingshen » The Whitney Music Box http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-1/#comment-2439 Tai Mingshen » The Whitney Music Box Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:15:18 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-2439 [...] Jim Bumgardner has created a musical realization of one of experimental film pioneer John Whitney’s ideas on harmonic resonance, as described in his book Digital Harmony. You’ll find the technical details on Jim’s blog KrazyDad. I picked this up from The J-Walk Blog and see that it is also featured on digg. [...] [...] Jim Bumgardner has created a musical realization of one of experimental film pioneer John Whitney’s ideas on harmonic resonance, as described in his book Digital Harmony. You’ll find the technical details on Jim’s blog KrazyDad. I picked this up from The J-Walk Blog and see that it is also featured on digg. [...]

]]> By: Hola, mundo. » Blog Archive » On ChucK, Terry Riley, Jim Bumgardner and emulating old masters through code http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/visual-harmony/comment-page-1/#comment-1647 Hola, mundo. » Blog Archive » On ChucK, Terry Riley, Jim Bumgardner and emulating old masters through code Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:19:19 +0000 http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2006/04/23/visual-harmony/#comment-1647 [...] Having a look at the programmer’s website (ah, curiosity) I’ve discovered why the url sounded so familiar: He’s also the man behind whitney music box, a well known series of animations inspired by the work of john whitney, as described in his book Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art. The post explaining the work is worth a look. [...] [...] Having a look at the programmer’s website (ah, curiosity) I’ve discovered why the url sounded so familiar: He’s also the man behind whitney music box, a well known series of animations inspired by the work of john whitney, as described in his book Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art. The post explaining the work is worth a look. [...]

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