Starry Night (interactive animation) by Petros Vrellis
A try to visualize the flow of the famous painting “Starry Night” of Vincent Van Gogh.The user can interact with the animation. Also, the sound responds to the flow. Made with openframeworks.
The original version of vimeo.
Jake Lodwick, on his Elepath blog: (quote edited)
“Most attempts to build websites are unequivocal failures.
In the case of Vimeo, I was struck by inspiration and built a working prototype in a few hours. I still use it regularly.
The prototype was not complete, but living software is never complete, like humans, gardens, and companies. Vimeo was just a subdirectory on my personal site, blumpy.org. It only had one person’s videos. But the point is that I deployed it, and woke up the next morning not with an imaginary vision, but a live website I could observe and discuss.
I’m not writing this to boast — I’m saying, ideas are impossible to pre-analyze; you have to build them to evaluate their value, and it’s really easy to build a tiny version of something. You can do it the same day. The reasons people don’t do it are overwhelmingly emotional and irrational. But we don’t want to eradicate passion entirely; we just need a safe container for it.”
