Re: GOODWORLD now at ARTPORT

July 16, 2002

Type: discussion

hey lew (& all),

nice work! i particularly like routine that converts an image into tiny
little squares, and the "not too smiley's" are a good stand-ins for
links.

best,
j

Lew Baldwin wrote:
>
> http://artport.whitney.org
> http://goodworld.ws
>
> GoodWorld is a 'wrapping' of the Web. Through goodworld.ws the online experience temporarily becomes one large unified piece.
>
> In reaction to the onslaught of media and advertising that has sunk web browsing to unimaginable levels in the last several years - and even more so
> with the news of our pending threats since Sept. 11th, GoodWorld is a cleansing of sorts. An idealistic overture to a utopian vision… or possibly an unsettled dilution of the safe and familiar we've come to expect.
>
>
> Goodworld uses PHP to evaluate web pages and images, then re-draws the content as a new interpretation of what was there before. The dominant image on the
> page is re-created as a Shockwave Flash file in real-time based on the dominant
> rgb values of the image.
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