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I’ve just presented my graduation work on the physical induction of emotions and an implementation for entertainment on the IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium.

The presentation can be downloaded at http://www.rockabit.com/downloads/IFIP_ECS_2008.ppt.

The paper can be downloaded in PDF format here:

full version (16 pages)

short version (8 pages)

Here’s some small experiments I did in ActionScript 3 with particles in combination with perlin noise determining how they move.

In all cases it’s a bunch of particles placed in a circle, each one having its position linked to a randomly chosen pixel in a scrolling perlin noise filled bitmap. The third example has only a few particles and interconnects them with a curve, creating a moving type of amorphous blob.

pulsating iris

pulsating fountain

globule

Edit: I’ve added a small motion blur effect to the globule to make it a little bit more interesting, visually.