Reza Ali

3D, Art, Design, Maya, MEL, Particles, Processing.org, Reza, Uncategorized

EMERGENT

February 26, 2010

“EMERGENT” was created using a particle system that was given basic rules of behavior, this is very similar to swarm algorithms using in architecture to create 3D forms.

3D, Art, Design, Java, Math Art, OpenGL, Processing.org, Reza, Visualization, wallpaper

3D SuperShapes

February 6, 2010

Art, Design, Java, Math Art, Processing.org, Reza, Technology, Visualization, Visuals

Recently, I have been exploring SuperShapes, which are organic shapes that are rendered by evaluating the superformula with different parameters. This formula creates some beautiful and very organic shapes that can be used in other graphics to make a dynamic graphic composition (either interactive or static). Doing this in Matlab or Mathematica is interesting, but I wanted to make something a little more interactive, minimal and fun to play with so I designed a application that can be used to create these shapes and render an image of them at a super high resolution.

DJ, Java, Particles, Processing.org, Reza, Technology, UCSB, Visuals, VJ

Crowd-surfing VJing

January 19, 2010

Here is a small clip of my VJ performance in Isla Vista, CA. I used OSC to communicate to a Processing sketch that was running a sound reactive (FFT & amplitude based) abstract visual sketch I wrote.

C++, Design, DJ, Technology

Mmmmm: a Mobile DJ App

December 14, 2009

Mmmmm is a Multi-Modal Mobile Music Mixing Application for mixing music on a mobile device (Nokia N900) utilizing a tangible interface.

3D, Art, Java, Math Art, Particles, Processing.org, Special Effects, Visualization

A Drifting Up

November 23, 2009

This is an audio-reactive algorithmic visual art piece that uses the concept of charged particles and flocking to simulate a organism that is alive and composed of micro-organisms. The movement is rather pleasing thus I decided to exhibit the algorithm in a rather catchy video art fashion. Enjoy.

Art, photography, Reza, Special Effects, Visuals

Visual Mixtape

November 22, 2009

This visual mixtape is a collection of images that I took over the past year during my time in California and around the US. Some of the work is from New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Miami, New Orleans, and my favorite location to shoot so far Hong Kong. There is so much rich imagery and culture there.