Some Notes on Weaver:

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Object Orientated Programming Languages, such as Java, allow the programmer to develop a hierarchy of conceptual objects -such that "higher" concepts can "inherit" concepts, procedures classes" defined on a lower level.

A basic concept, underlying all the works listed on this page, is the idea of "Multi-Dimensional Conceptual Spaces"  which are considered (by the artist) to be arbitrary conceptual constructions composed of  combinations of various (conceptual -or conceptualized physical) parameters, coordinates or "dimensions".

Weaver  is a simple exploration of this concept. A number of parallel 2-Dimensional spaces are continually "scanned". At each position, it is possible (under menu control) to "read"  colour values at the scanning point -or its equivalent in a neighborouring scan. This point is compared with a number of other points (surrounding the scanning point -or its equivalent in a neighborouring scan) and a new colour value is derived from the result. The increment, and the size of the space scanned can be varied (under menu control) -so that essentially, information produced by one scanning process can be written by another (mapping between different spaces -possibly of different size) -or maybe the origianal point is simply "re-written" in a new colour (depending on the choices made). The graphic "glyph" used to "write" the colour information to the screen can also be determined via the control system.


Basically, the system explores the interactions between the various cycles scanning through the image space.