Gush was built off Andrew Benson’s Flow Cam, to turn your webcam photos into day-glo psychedelia. “While the webcam captures the movements, a generative and evolutive loop gives rise to fluid, glitched-out and distorted textures that structure and restructure themselves in the GIF format,” The Creator’s Project wrote today. Ferriss explains some of the technical details that make Gush work:
The effect works by creating a ‘flow’ image from a comparison of the current frame and previous frame. The flow looks like a colored contour image when there is movement in the scene. The flow output is plugged into another shader that runs in a feedback loop, continually blending new frames on top of old ones.
Ferriss used similar methods to create an app that Yung Jake recently used for MOCAtv, and afterwards, he focused on adapting his project to be sharable on the web. Check out our Artist’s Notebook with Adam Ferriss for more about the artist.
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Here's a browser-based webcam from artist Andrew Benson of Wolf and Unicorn (gif art series about love and death) and INTOTHEZONE (a digital and psychedelic Tarkovsky adaptation). Prosthetic Knowledge explains: It's "a WebGL realtime visual distorter with a smooth yet digital grainy effect." Try Flow Cam right here right now. "Technically speaking, it isn't datamoshing," Prosthetic Knowledge's Rich…
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