Capital M
Capital M, the graduation show of the Master Art students in Antwerp wanted to start their exhibition with a bang. The brief was simple; create a 10 sec. mapped video, ending or starting with the Capital M. The result was a nice mix of styles and colors by different participants. A short impression of my contribution to the mapping project: “Breeding animations” 🌀
For my piece I marked 9 propulsion points on the building which were used to steer the dots and lines to their ideal spot in order to form the Capital M.
A technique called “genetic algorithm” was used to find the ideal pulse sequence for the propulsion points.
For each new breed I used 9000 simulations with a very low mutation rate in order to get working results between 10 or 50 generations. It took around 3 hours to find a working sequence. All code is available at Github.
Watch full video
Example of a few generations
I highly recommend the chapter Chapter 9. The Evolution of Code in the book Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman if you want to learn more about this algorithm.
Client
St Lucas & Royal Academy Antwerp
Mapping concept
MAXLab
Coordination
MAXLab
Concept & Design
Lab101
Development
Lab101
Projection
