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25. GoodMorning! - Full Render #1

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24. GoodMorning! First Render

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23. GoodMorning! - Fast Render

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22. Visualizing TED Global - 182,793km to Oxford (B&W)

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21. Visualizing TED Global - 182,793km to Oxford (Paper)

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20. Visualizing TED Global - 182,793km to Oxford

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19. Just Landed - 61 Hours

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18. Just Landed - 36 Hours

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17. Just Landed - Test Render (4 hrs)

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16. Urchin Pile

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15. The Colour Economy: Test Pattern

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14. The Colour Economy: Bridging the Gap

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13. The Colour Economy: Metis Nation Flag (1816)

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12. The Colour Economy: Frantic

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11. The Colour Economy: Now with 100% more Flickr integration

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10. The Colour Economy: The Stars and Stripes, for abo…

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9. The Colour Economy: Can't we all just get along?

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8. The Colour Economy: Peer Pressure

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7. The Colour Economy: In the end, we will have more …

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6. The Colour Economy: The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor

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5. Pixel Storm 2

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4. Pixel Storm 1

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3. Umbrella Swarm on Brown - Now with Flapping!

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2. Umbrella Storm on Brown

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1. Umbrella Storm on White

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I have set up a routine to generate batches of renders from Flickr overnight, so that I don't have to manually control the production of each movie.

This one was a happy accident - it zoomed in much further than usual. The advantage is that you get to see the trading in much more detail. Here, the 'vision' of the traders is set quite high, so they are able to easily find trading partners. As a result, we get a lot of activity, with each trader changing colour and size frequently.

Height of the particles indicates the amount of cash that they currently have - you will see their height decrease as they buy colour and increase as they sell it.

ABOUT THE COLOUR ECONOMY:

What if pixels were free? What if they could trade their computer-given red, green, and blue values in pursuit of a profit?

The Colour Economy imagines an artificial economy of pixels, in which individual 'traders' exchange colour.

The Colour Economy is a project by Jer Thorp (blprnt.com) and was built with Processing v. 0135.