atraylor – Looking Outwards 02 – Section B

I spent a long time looking through different creative coding pieces and settled on Hydra a generative shadow maker, by Nicolas Barradeau. This piece takes silhouettes of animals, people, and objects and splices them together based on cuts the user makes. This results in blob-like hydra creatures and very satisfying sounds that accompany the creature creation.

I admire that this project is simple and yet is still fascinating. Taking pieces of objects that are recognizable, simplifying them and allowing the user to make decisions, makes this piece accessible, and yet it’s frustrating and exciting when you don’t get the result you expected. This piece allows the viewer to use their imagination similar to looking for shapes in the clouds or watching shadow puppets on the wall.