Author Archives: Ben Snell

Experimental Shortwave Radio

The air around us is brimming with activity. In the United States, most bands are dedicated to commercial and government broadcasts, packed with strange uses like radio astronomy or aeronautical mobile satellite. The visualization below goes to show what a …

Image Database Project: Torsos

Adam Milner, an MFA student in the School of Art, manually collected 7,000 images of torsos from Grindr over the course of a few years. I’m currently collaborating with him to computationally analyze the dataset, searching for new forms of …

Project Ideas: Place

I would like to continue working with the UR5 for this project, stepping up the complexity of movements to create more natural, realistic form. I have begun to research, understand, and model the movement of the human hand and brush …

Admiration of Peer Projects

One of the Gauntlet projects I was most intrigued by was Guy’s tapestry bot, which “wove” together images vertically by matching similar top and bottom edges.

I would be incredibly curious to see if one could analyze the “flow” of …

Bot Luminaten

Bot Luminaten welcomes you to join the Illuminati with a personalized ambigram.

I made a twitter bot that welcomes people to join the Illuminati in return for an ambigram of their twitter screen name. (code here)

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Making this …

LIDAR Timelapse

Explorable 3D timelapses generated from intimate LIDAR captures.

Using ofxTimeline, ofxMSATimer, ofxRange, ofxTimecode, and ofxTween, I made an app that takes large LIDAR captures (in this case, over a period of 8 hours), visualizes a planned animation of the space, …