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For this project I am going to require a large amount of data, images and sources to obtain specific results to create the end result for the user. This requires me to perform a large amount of research into search engine performance and relevancy to this project. Which search engines and websites will provide the best results for the keywords used by the user?

Without the right information and data the project will be worthless and meaningless to the created artwork.

There are many debates to which search engine provides the best result. After visiting the http://www.searchenginewatch.com it was clear which search engines were performing the best at this current time. There awards stated that Yahoo were currently the best for image search. This is something I will now begin to explain and investigate.

Using the following keywords I will compare the results from each search engine: ”Duchamp conceptual art”

So in conclusion to this first search it was clear that google provided the largest amount of results but whether or not all of the images were relevant this was another question. Yahoo’s images were very specific and relevant to the keyword search. This was infact true for all of the search engines tested. As my prototype will be using more keywords and more peculiar sentence structures I will now investigate the same method using “Duchamp Baudrillard Sound Art“ Using the following keywords I will compare the results from each search engine: ”Duchamp conceptual art”

As this project relies on images, Google is defiantly providing more content, the results which are found on its first 2 pages tend to be relevant to the keyword searches performed. As the project will only pull in a maximum of 30 images, Google’s image search will be more than adequate. I will adapt this into the project as soon as development takes place.

THE TEXT BELOW IS FROM MY PERSONAL WORK BOOK
Yet another evening and entire day coding in flash, Our organism project is now starting to take form, we currently have collision detections, random movement (x, y & spinning), death, growth and feeding.

Created in flash the organisms are created entirely from code. Using the flash api we have created an aesthetically pleasing mite like object which has the attributes of a moving creature.

Firstly the user is asked to select how many life forms to spawn. This can be any where in the region of 3 - 50 (50 due to flash not coping with any more vectors).

When loaded, the application assigns the following attributes to each life form.

• Width
• Height
• Spikiness
• Alpha (transparency)
• location in the environment

Then the organism begins. Each life forms detect when one another collides, this causes them to spin off in a different direction. They move in a controlled random way from their original x,y co-ordinates depending on there location, collision detection and previous movements.

The Life form attributes:

• Each life form can die if no interaction occurs.
• Life remain for ever if the user feeds the life form
• Grown after being fed (to its maximum size)

To add interactivity to the process of life and death we have included a click to kill method.
If the user clicks on a life form, it will result in the death of a life. Alternatively non feeding of the organism will cause it to die.

Click Here to run The organism project

Research -
http://www.ababasoft.com/fun/animal/030815.html
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scripting/Physics/Artifici-Luis_Pab-5091/index.php
Brilliant site - http://www.levitated.net/gravityIndex.html

The video for this piece can be seen here