To use scape focus the applet enter a word and press enter. you can skip the process pressing esc. For sound you need the jsyn plugin. [jsyn]

Scape uses flickr to find images matching an entered word. Found images get repaint into a three dimensional scape. The x,y position of a pixel corresponds to the position in the scape the z is calculated from the color of the pixel. Lighter pixels cause higher z values.

Painting the scenery, scape also generates sound. A number of sine oscillators is spread over the x range of the picture with increasing frequency. The pixels over the x range are devided by the number of oscillators. These different groups now define the amplitude of the according oscillator with their average z value. The y value determines the passing time. With an increasing y value the scape gets paint and sound develops.

In that way scape desolves a two dimensional picture into a four dimensonal pattern, by adding a third dimension and time.

source code :: built with processing :: jsyn :: prohtml