Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Dreamlines

Dreamlines is a beautiful image generation website that takes a search query, passes it to Google Images and then processes relevant pictures to draw a "dream-like" progression. The interesting thing, from my perspective, is how the images are processed - a graphic file provides the template "environment" for a group of interacting particles, or agents, which interact in a non-linear fashion to generate an emergent whole (more on this paradigm here).

I'm not sure about the waffle about the internet "dreaming", but it does generate a lovely series of images (I tried DNA and bacteria, both with nice results).

The site does require Flash and Java.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, I'm Craig David, however, this stems from earlier problems, where this site, fails to co-operate, with my r'n'b lifestyle. Plus the site is broken.

Holy. Crap.

Martyn Amos said...

Yes, I suspect that the site's being hammered due to it being listed on Metafilter - that might be the problem.