Joshua Albers selected works
Geographic Visualization New York
2010
A visualization of almost one year's worth of GPS tracks in New York city. I wrote simple GPX and KML functions in Processing to import and display the geographic data. Each track generates a circle centered on the first location in the track; the size and color of the circle is tied to the linear distance from the first point of the track to the point most recently drawn.
GPS data recorded on a mobile phone.
Graphics in Processing.
No audio.
2010
An earlier sketch of the animated geographic visualization of New York without the colored distance circles; the monochrome rendering of the accumulated GPS tracks evoke chalk drawing on slate or dark paper.
GPS data recorded on a mobile phone.
Graphics in Processing.
No audio.
Geographic Visualization Saint Louis
2009
Continuing my exploration of the effects of compressing motion through time and space, this animation is comprised of a series of GPS recordings taken in the area around St. Louis, Missouri in late 2009. I used Processing to display the tracks as a series of lines; colored rays indicating the heading of each segment have been added to illuminate patterns in my motion through the area.
GPS data recorded with a mobile phone.
Animation coded in Processing.
Assembled and edited in Adobe After Effects.
No audio.
Image Combine Park
2009
Digital Image
Exploring the effects of compressing time and motion through space, this composite image was produced by combining a sequence of 368 separate photographs taken during a 10 minute walk through Tower Grove Park in Saint Louis.
Image processor coded in Processing.
Image Combine Sidewalk
2009
Digital Image
Continuing the exploration of compressing time and motion, this composite image was created by combining 256 images taken over 30 minutes in Jackson Heights, New York.
Image processor coded in Processing.
Image Combine Branches
2009
Digital Image
Created by combining 27 images of tree branches in Tower Grove Park in Saint Louis.
Image processor coded in Processing.
Image Combine Highway
2009
Digital Image
This composite image was produced by combining 55 images take from a car traveling down I-270 in Saint Louis over a duration of 10 minutes.
Image processor coded in Processing.
Image Combine Streetlights
2009
Digital Image
A composite image of 154 images taken over 21 minutes while walking down 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, New York in February of 2010.
video Image Spiral
2009
Visualization of the temporal data embedded in a sequence of photographs. Multiple image sequences are assembled to cover a diverse span of time. The images are then simplified and drawn in chronological order onto planes in 3D space. The plans are rotated according to what point in an hour the image was originally captured; image sequences that span an entire hour will gradually rotate a full 360 degrees. The compression of time, combined with varying position of each "slice" of time, reveal patterns of environmental coloration and luminance.
No audio.
Coded with Processing.
Assembled and edited in Adobe After Effects.
accumulation Image Spiral
2009
Digital Image
This is a composite image of the animation of the rotated image planes; the initial visualization, which is already based on a compression of time, is compressed further--into a single frame--resulting in an ephemeral image that illustrates the cumulative motion of the shapes and camera during the original animation.
interactive Field of View
interactive Flash project.
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2009
Footage of a small Flash project that explores the nature of focus and peripheral vision. The default mode exaggerates the variation in receptor density across the surface of a human retina; high density near the center allows us to resolve sharp details, while the drop in receptor density towards the edges of the retina yields only hazy shapes. The alternate mode inverts the relationship, blurring the details near the center of focus and permitting maximum details only at the edges.
Programmed in Adobe Flash CS3.
Footage captured in CamStudio and packaged in Adobe After Effects.
no audio.
excerpts Thread
2004
Originally presented as an installation for the Spring 2004 BFA Senior Exhibition at (Southwest) Missouri State University.
Animation in NewTek LightWave and Adobe After Effects
Audio by Eric Bintner