1.36 am bed time… Note to self to keep a log of the midi files that i have been experimenting with:
Let’s call them pleasant or nice sounds.
BMP = 70
Repetition = 1
….. 15 minutes later….
A quick test now shows that the midi conversion is now working…. http://www.minimalistics.co.uk/idat/year4/idat307/dna-music/txt2mid.php almost church like i suppose.
Visualising the Arch-OS DNA proved to be a bit tricky, how should i present the data back to the user, what form should it take. I have decided to go for a conventional DNA representation as this is what people are most familiar with, and Will be easily understood.
Working in flash i have created a DNA visualiser, creating art from the DNA strings created using my Arch-OS DNA Generator.
Below are some of the images that i have been able to create so far.
Only a quick post, just simple instructions to setup mail redirection on your Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access to your personal email that you might actually like using!
Login then navigate to Options > Rules
Creating a rule:
We will create a rule to manage the redirection of any incoming emails. To do this we need to create a new rule. Select “New Rule” and then choose “Create a new rule for arriving messages“.
After the new window has loaded click “Forward or Redirect” then Redirect the message to people or distribution list (don’t worry the messages still remain on your account even if they are redirected).
After selecting the following option you will need to add your email address. Click on “people or distribution lists“. As soon as the pop up comes up enter the email address into the bottom box, and press OK.
That’s it your almost done, give your rule a name in the “Name:” box and click save. Now all of your future emails will be forwarded to your personal inbox.
Be sure to test that it is working by sending yourself a test email.
Architecture is a common aesthetic of everyday life, we see it in magazines, online and we are encapsulated within it in every day.
But what happens when this space is deconstructed into data, how do we revisualise it?
The matrix is one of the many examples that try to tackle this by representing the world as digits and code:
An example of the change between data and the real world is visualised in the following video.
Things to look at, Marcus Novak
Whilst performing DNA based research online i have come across UK based digital artist Stanza and many of his DNA based artworks. Below i have included some examples taken from http://www.genomixer.com/about/works.htm any quoted text is text by Stanza.
http://www.genomixer.com/
“Welcome to Genomixer where you make your own mutants using Stanza Dna profiles. My DNA data is used for sound mappings, and generative sequencing processes. Code made by code extracted from blood. Dna portraits and dna artworks.” source click here
http://www.genomixer.com/dnaspace/index.htm
“A 3 d generative space playing through variations of dna in a morphing 3 d architecture. Move around it and the shape moves with you. Click through and load new behaviours or wait and new codes are loaded into the architecture.Generative 3d dna architectures. Based on my dna profiles. A building whose construction is based on genetic identity. The true family home, a gentically engineered morphic 3d structure. These are example protoypes for a real space. A space where the virtual becomes real. ” source click here
http://www.genomixer.com/cloned/beeb/index.html
“Infected and cloned sites include the tate, bbc, and the ica. These sites have been cloned and infected with stanza dna. Issues around mutation and genetic modification complicates issues of IP and ownership. Who has the right to do this. These sites have been modified with my dna.CCATAGGATGTTGATCGCTCGATGCTTCTGCTCGATCGATCGGCTTCGCTCCTCTTCGCCTCGAGCTCG” source click here
As things are starting to develop on the project in a more DNA inspired way i have decided to research what other DNA projects exist and how the relationship between DNA and a building can exist, and its importance.
The first project i stumbled across was “WEB2DNA” Click to launch.
WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.
The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of structure.
- H1 is brighter than H2, which is brighter than H3.
- TABLE is brighter than TR, which is brighter than TD tags.
- Images and flash elements appear as 70% white.
- New HTML tags like STRONG and EM is brighter than older ones like B and I
- UL, OL and DL is brighter than their LI, DT, DD
- DIV layout is brighter than table layout
Basically a semantically rich site will appear brighter than one with messy old-style code.
You can also determine the richness of text on a site. A site the focuses on (text) content is one where the DNA patterns is large (filling many containers), but contains a lot of empty spaces between the lines (empty space is the individual words).
Below i have included a mashup of 3 DNA images created. This is genereated from the Minimalistic Designs website:
Click here to see live version.
This project is a n in spired project of DNA 11. A brilliant concept in my eyes but it does leave one wondering what they are doing with all of our DNA / fingerprint data?
Ah ha the Arch OS DNA converter is finally finished, below is the working product which utilises Arch OS data from the Portland square building in Plymouth University.
This mini project acts as the start of the DNA extraction process that you would typically see in a laboratory, filtering out the corret information and representing it in a data form.
Utilising a strict algorithm the application converts the data into a DNA string. Hit the refresh button at any time to re-generate new DNA strings.
Algorithm table converter:
A = -, B = ., C = “Spaces”, D = 0, E = 1, F = 2, G = 3, H = 4, I = 5, J = 6, K = 7, L = 8, M = 9, N = 10, 0 = 11, P = 12, Q = 13, R = 14, S = 15, T = 16, U = 17, V = 18, W = 19, X = 20, Y = 21, Z = 22.
A notable rising net artists has to be Aaron Koblin with projects such as “The Sheep Market” and most inspiring to my field of research House of Card’s Music video, interactive data viewer, and source code - http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/rh/index.html. “With Director James Frost (Zoo) and a bunch of other great people, lasers and sensors were used to create a 3D data “music video” for the band Radiohead.
The project was launched as an Open Source project on Google Code. An interactive online viewer (created with Aaron Meyers) allows for interactive 3D investigation of the data online”. By visiting the website you can explore the radio head video in a 3d environment. The video below gives a great explanation to how the video was created and its purpose.
BBC data visualisations:
I began thinking about the data obtained from the Portland Square building (in Plymouth University) using the Arch-OS system, could this data represent the DNA of the building. The system/data almost acts as a way of recording the buildings make up, its activity and a way of seeing how the building works.
I pondered on the idea of representing this DNA as audio. Whilst crawling the Internet i discovered a brilliant piece of software that converts DNA structures into midi sequences. Bio2MIDI by Algorithmic Arts.
I firstly began by fetching a set of results from the Arch-OS feeds page and returned the following results:
0 19.95 0 31.6 0 33.9 202.48 -245.08 -213.96 -269 229.64 111.14 2 156.14 42.59 19.7 58.29 23.13 56 21.95 64.25 12.52 2.82 20.25 21.05 16.89 20.48 21.25 22.12 19.88 21.03 21.39 18.73 0 4.09 17.59 71.61 4.17 243.64
Obviously this didn’t resemble any DNA structure at the moment it is a group of data sets which have no relevance to a DNA structure. For this to work i would need to construct an algorithm of defining a 10 character structure for example “ASDVVDFDDP”.
To encode the new DNA structure i formulated an algorithm which would replace numbers and characters with letters.
Before you notice it i have left out 14.
Using this structure the original data set produced these results:
aupjfabpg addpqvcpej imcefpaimx dpjgmcgjxj pgelbpbecq gpqecpfjup ffipcjypof gwpjfgepcf npfccpicvp cfwpafrpij vpeiwpcfxp pnupiiwpad wpdjtphdae pajspfjhbp gbepszdpge
After putting it into the Bio2Midi converter the following file was created.
Thinking again about the project i’ve decided to do some further thoughts about how an immersive experience can change the way we perceive data. Visualisations are of course representations of data sets within a digital environment, visualised by graphics and sometimes sounds. Can the shift in the environment that a user receives these visualisations change the way we feel about data. By placing the user within an immersive environment can we change the level of immersivness and cause the user to feel much closer to reality? If this is the case are we enabling a new dimension. And as I’m planning on using the universities immersive Vision Theatre (the dome), what is it that makes the dome different from any other visual environment?
Combining Visualisations and the immersive Environment hopefully the project will end up as an immersive Visualisation ………………….
A nice example of “real time” immersive video:
