GLArt: Text Machine
This week's assignment is an exercise in spatial text and trying to wrap my head around timing. Click on the image above for a larger screenshot, or download the source code here. Use the up and down keys to get closer or further away from the text; clicking and holding down the mouse will rotate the text. The camera will follow a path from the top of the text to the bottom of the text, moving across every line. The idea was to mimick the path of the eye as it reads written text.
Some of the recent readings in Site-Specific (de Certeau, in particular) have interested me in making literal mappings between text and space. This is a first step in that direction. Another idea I'd like to try is a maze-like structure, navigated in from a first-person perspective, where the text is written on the floor (or walls, or something), and your "path" through the text leaves behind a trace.
Two more screenshots after the jump.
Less inclined. Click for larger screenshot
View from above. Click for larger screenshot