I’ve had this idea in my head for a long time and I finally acted on it. I drew this with watercolor and ball point pen and finished it with a touch of code. I wrote software to create the triangles behind the mouse, then printed it out onto a sheet of paper and then traced the triangles onto the original watercolor drawing.

Output from OF application used to trace the triangles onto the original drawing.

A while ago I wrote some circle packing code to pack as many circles into a image based on colors. I had some free time and I didn’t want to stare at the computer anymore so I ran the software on the OF logo and made this design.
OF 007 XCode project available on github: https://github.com/NickHardeman/CirclePacker
In the 600 x 600px image there are 201 circles and the software took 7.35 minutes to complete. Could use some optimization, but it worked as well as I needed it to. 🙂

I printed the pdf on my crappy printer, taped the 4 pieces of paper together to make a larger logo and then painstakingly cut out all of the circles with an xacto knife.

I liked the imperfections that would be inevitable due to the uneven paper and human error while spray painting the stencil onto a shirt. I really like the inconsistant components; the spray paint, the cut outs and the uneven stencil visualizing computer generated conciseness.

Now the shirt is available for purchase on spreadshirt, with some of the proceeds going to OF! woohoo. It comes in many different sizes and colors. Get one now.

When I was off for Thanksgiving break, I could not look at the screen anymore. So I decided to do some drawings. I already gave two of them away without taking proper pictures. But I still have one that I was able to scan.

I was able to scan this one.

I provided some additional software dev help for the Paik Times Five project by Flightphase.
Creative Director: Karolina Sobecka
Technical direction and lead software development: Jeff Crouse
Additional software development: me 🙂

Karolina wrote a thorough description of the project here.

The July 2012 edition of Computer Arts magazine included an article titled “Hand Signals” about kinect hacking. We are excited that it featured Follow This! among other great kinect projects.