Semi-OT... "HyGrid" Q
Gary Schooley
time. It is a strange "collaborative" art project that uses some sort of 3-D
cyber "grid" cube type thingy. Each person adds a "tile", and they are somehow
"merged" at the edges. I haven't quite figured it out yet, and was wondering if
anyone here knew of it. A lot of the art reminds me of this NG.
It's called "HyGrid" and is at:
http://www.sito.org/synergy/
Gary Schooley
Ed Stastny
SITO.org, a site Jon Van Oast and I have curated since 1993. You can get
to it directly at http://sito.org/synergy/hygrid/
HyGrid features 90 artists and over 1800 tiles! It's really huge,
actually. I'm *still* finding new stuff in it. It's a twisted maze of
images and animations configured into navigable loops and dead-ends. Do
you want to add to it? All you need is a SITO ID. Read the http://
sito.org/synergy/ page for more info.
On that page you'll also find links to SITO's many other collaborative
art projects, including Impulse Freak (collaborative monkey comic, most
recently mentioned in Scott McCloud's "Reinventing Comics") and Gridcosm
(fractal grid zoom that recently surpassed 500 levels of eight unique
tiles each).
http://sito.org/synergy/ifreak
http://sito.org/synergy/gridcosm
SITO.org also hosts over 300 artists and their unique artworks in its
Artchive section - http://sito.org/artchive/
SITO.org is a non-profit organisation, FREE to everyone.
Come check it out if you have time,
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ed stastny
http://www.sito.org/~ed
portland, oregon
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Gary Schooley
Ed Stastny wrote:
Cool! I thought about adding to it but i still don't understand how one
person's art gets merged with another's (the edges). Not to mention that my
stuff is more abstract patterns and basic PM; I don't think I have anything
"strange" enough. *hehe* Anyway, it's an interesting concept. Me and some
friends once discussed making a sort of a "maze" where people are "bounced"
from page to page, with traps, dead ends and secret entrances, etc. But, we
never did anything with it. It would have been more "interactive" so to speak,
with at least four ways in/out of each page, and "booby traps" if you make the
wrong choices.
I'll keep checking it out - it's an interesting "thing".
Gary Schooley
Ed Stastny
> > http://sito.org/synergy/gridcosm
> Cool! I thought about adding to it but i still don't understand how one
> person's art gets merged with another's (the edges).
The "blending" is done by the artist creating the new image. When
you're creating a new piece for HyGrid, you already know what other
piece(s) you are going to be connecting to, so the edges should be *
built* to blend. A technique for achieving this is to use Photoshop's
layers to create a "top" layer with the piece(s) you're building from on
it and your work area masked out. On any number of layers *beneath*
that layer, you work on your new HyGrid piece and never alter the "top"
layer. Make sense? Essentially you create a guiding mask for yourself.
This is how I make my HyGrid and Gridcosm pieces.
To participate in any SITO.org collaborative art project, you first need
a SITO ID.