Dreamlines

November 23, 2005 5:28 AM

Dreamlines
posted by Tlogmer (26 comments total)

"Thus, the work is at the same time a study on population dynamics, or on the emergent behavior of a multitude of very simple autonomous agents.

Who is dreaming? The user, or the Internet itself? In a certain way, both. The program generates a personal moving picture, unique, unpredictable, and forever gone when it is finished, just like dreams."
posted by Tlogmer at 5:29 AM on November 23, 2005

My first search had "to [sic] few results."
My second search made me wait ten minutes to load my dream. I want to dream now.

Also, you should have warned that this required Flash and Java.
posted by Plutor at 5:34 AM on November 23, 2005

Lovely. Some people have a slightly different idea about 'foxes' than I have.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:39 AM on November 23, 2005

I typed "dreams" and the imagery drifted toward an image from "What Dreams May Come" that I had worked on. Spooky until I realized there is a web search component.
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:39 AM on November 23, 2005

amazing!
posted by Modem Ovary at 5:42 AM on November 23, 2005

neat

is there any way to make this full-screen?
posted by rxrfrx at 5:48 AM on November 23, 2005

Entering the names of celebrities can be quite fun. Normally in MY dreams, though, famous people are much less fuzzy and much more willing to hang out with me.
posted by PhatLobley at 5:56 AM on November 23, 2005

I typed in 'handjobs' and all I got was a mess on my screen.
posted by rhymer at 6:06 AM on November 23, 2005

That was neat. I chose 'theater' 'stage' and 'actors' and got quite lovely results.
posted by LeeJay at 6:09 AM on November 23, 2005

Fuzzy morphing. Yep, just like my dreams. Thanks for that, Tigomer.
posted by planetkyoto at 6:14 AM on November 23, 2005

Cool. Once you provided the form with keywords that don't return too few results.
posted by Colloquial Collision at 6:28 AM on November 23, 2005

Interesting. I was first waiting for the devil (or whatever) to leap out at me, but then it really did draw a "chaffinch" which led me to believe that there was something deeper going on... As an interface to Google Images, it's not the most useful thing in the world, but it sure as heck is attractive...
posted by benzo8 at 6:34 AM on November 23, 2005

Trippy.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:35 AM on November 23, 2005

beautiful.
posted by Espoo2 at 6:40 AM on November 23, 2005

I typed in "drugs" and got a message: "Say no to drugs"
posted by Modem Ovary at 6:47 AM on November 23, 2005

Whatever you do, don't type 'turdblossom'
posted by dead_ at 6:48 AM on November 23, 2005

I saw boobies woo hoo!!
posted by evilelvis at 6:52 AM on November 23, 2005

I typed "goatse." Very pretty results! (Evidently the SafeSearch is "off" for this thing.)
posted by Gator at 6:58 AM on November 23, 2005

Gnomes brought up some nice imagery. I also liked the keywords orange and rainbow.

Um, is the Java element done with Processing? The aesthetic is lovely.
posted by sjvilla79 at 7:26 AM on November 23, 2005

I hit a brick wall with "brick wall" :-(
posted by WolfDaddy at 7:49 AM on November 23, 2005

Autofellatio has too few results. Just saying. You know.
posted by hatchetjack at 7:49 AM on November 23, 2005

I fell asleep watching the little ball go back and forth. Dreamt about a green age.
posted by dontoine at 8:18 AM on November 23, 2005

My second search made me wait ten minutes to load my dream. I want to dream now.

It's versimilitude, Plutor - REM sleep usually takes about 90 minutes to kick in.

Interesting project, thanks. From the searches I tried, it's quite craftily well-balanced in terms of mixing the explicit with the implicit in terms of shapes, so that users can project enough of our own interpretations of the scenes onto them to make them meaningful in a dreamlike way.
posted by soyjoy at 8:23 AM on November 23, 2005

Last night I dreamed I was aboout to (reluctantly) go through an operation in which my bottom teeth and top teeth were to be reversed, so I could better play some kind of musical instrument.

Some people think that listening to others relate their dreams is incredibly boring. I, like, so disagree.

And yeah, this site is pretty fun.
posted by kozad at 8:43 AM on November 23, 2005

well everything I tried had "to (sic) few results". Surprisingly sex had too few results. Who knew human beings had so little to say about sex. Then I tried one of the above suggestions and then it would take forever. If I switched to another window when I went back it was back to the front screen. I just wanted to see it work once.
posted by Phantomx at 11:14 AM on November 23, 2005

well everything I tried had "to (sic) few results".

I'm getting that as well. Perhaps all the new traffic has overwhelmed it. Damn.
posted by Modem Ovary at 12:16 PM on November 23, 2005