Superdraw and The Black Spiral Dance

Superdraw – Joshue Ott

Superdraw, originally created in Flash and then ported to Proce55ing, is a drawing program that gives users ‘super powers’ by allowing them to create complex animated drawings. The application, made by Joshue Ott, is intended to be used as an on-the-fly visual instrument to provide visuals for live music. Included at the site is web version to play with – using a range of toggle controls its possible to create quite a wide range of effects – anything from static mesh etchings through to hyper-frantic kinetic ribbons.

Vade, a VJ/Video and Computational artist from New York, has utilised an implementation of Superdraw within the Max/MSP/Jitter framework to produce an excellent set of greyscale nebulae – the set called The Black Spiral Dance can be viewed here. Vades blog covers info on his personal experimentation with the Max/Msp/Jitter environment.