Cape Town Minijam Saturday 4th of June (in Cape Town)
If you're staying at home wondering why other people are getting ahead and you are falling behind, it's because you're not at the Cape Town Monthly Minijam.
The details are also all on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/1726002637639595/
There is an 8 hour jam hosted by The Bandwidth Barn in Woodstock on Saturday the 4th of June.
This event will happen monthly and is free to attend for everyone, but if you want to be fed at the event it'll cost R100.
The idea is that everyone arrives at 12:00, and at 12:30 we reveal a few secret (optional) modifiers and everyone brainstorms, jamming starts at 1pm and everyone stops jamming 8 hours later (with lunch happening somewhere in between).
We all eat lasagne (or some lasagne equivalent) at 8:30pm and at 9:00pm everyone presents whatever they've built (to rapturous applause and cheering).
This month's Cape Town Minijam is a bit different. The focus is:
Visualization.
The goal for this jam is building an application or playful toy that visualizes data or algorithms.
This is new territory for me, if anyone has some pointers for the resources that might be useful, directions this could take, or the constraints that could be applied, please suggest them. What we're hoping is to attract a couple people from outside of game development who are interested in building visualizers.
For example here's some resources on the process of visualizing data about the world and rendering it onto a globe: http://engineroom.trackmaven.com/blog/using-cartodb-and-threejs-for-mapping/ and this awesome visualization of world wide arms trading: http://nisatapps.prio.org/armsglobe/
Keijiro Takahashi has done some exploration in visualizing music in Unity and has shared the source of a lot of his work: https://vimeo.com/radiumsoftware/videos
Inconvergent is the work of Anders Hoff about creating algorithms that generate images (and the source is included).
And here's some flipping cool looking things: http://keidmf.com/
Exploring the possibilities of visualization is what this jam is about, or just making beautiful, or strange, things.
Of course, if you participate, you don't have to stick to the focus. If you find inspiration elsewhere then use it. The only requirement is that after 8 hours you present what you've made and tell the group what you've learned, even if what you've made is incomplete, and what you've learned is that you were too ambitious.
Of course you can use any software you like. If there are resources you think would be helpful, or examples you think might inspire others, please post them in this thread.
The details are also all on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/1726002637639595/
There is an 8 hour jam hosted by The Bandwidth Barn in Woodstock on Saturday the 4th of June.
This event will happen monthly and is free to attend for everyone, but if you want to be fed at the event it'll cost R100.
The idea is that everyone arrives at 12:00, and at 12:30 we reveal a few secret (optional) modifiers and everyone brainstorms, jamming starts at 1pm and everyone stops jamming 8 hours later (with lunch happening somewhere in between).
We all eat lasagne (or some lasagne equivalent) at 8:30pm and at 9:00pm everyone presents whatever they've built (to rapturous applause and cheering).
This month's Cape Town Minijam is a bit different. The focus is:
Visualization.
The goal for this jam is building an application or playful toy that visualizes data or algorithms.
This is new territory for me, if anyone has some pointers for the resources that might be useful, directions this could take, or the constraints that could be applied, please suggest them. What we're hoping is to attract a couple people from outside of game development who are interested in building visualizers.
For example here's some resources on the process of visualizing data about the world and rendering it onto a globe: http://engineroom.trackmaven.com/blog/using-cartodb-and-threejs-for-mapping/ and this awesome visualization of world wide arms trading: http://nisatapps.prio.org/armsglobe/
Keijiro Takahashi has done some exploration in visualizing music in Unity and has shared the source of a lot of his work: https://vimeo.com/radiumsoftware/videos
Inconvergent is the work of Anders Hoff about creating algorithms that generate images (and the source is included).
And here's some flipping cool looking things: http://keidmf.com/
Exploring the possibilities of visualization is what this jam is about, or just making beautiful, or strange, things.
Of course, if you participate, you don't have to stick to the focus. If you find inspiration elsewhere then use it. The only requirement is that after 8 hours you present what you've made and tell the group what you've learned, even if what you've made is incomplete, and what you've learned is that you were too ambitious.
Of course you can use any software you like. If there are resources you think would be helpful, or examples you think might inspire others, please post them in this thread.
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I'll be there!
Just posting some generative art that inspires me. I love a lot of the work that Lee Griggs does:
And here's some more dancing, because the world doesn't have enough beauty: