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is a software generative animation media art work based on Java code created by Christopher Warnow who is a member of the We Are Chopchop Collective,  (a small community of designers, motiongraphers, video- and media artists working, exploring and playing in the field of visual culture production).

For the technically curious Fluxion.curb "is a cloth simulation rendered with the Sunflow Rendering Engine, using the Wrapper Class SunflowAPIAPI."

Sunflow "is an open source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis" and rendered in this piece to resemble fluid concrete which surprisingly took 4 weeks to render.

The music track is by Machinefabriek with a piece entitled Curb.

Google gravity, and the search field apparently remains active !

I must say I seem to be waiting to long for a suitable OSX version of Chrome. The feature that should be prevalent in all contemporary browsers, Tabs at the top, isn't !

Safari 4 Beta had it for a short while, but alas when I updated to the next version the feature had been written out. Damn shame about that. Although I read a hint on macosxhints.com, and tried to do it, and seriously missed out on re-enabling them, likely because I didn't quite understand the doing of the hack.

Tabs on top of the browser window allows one to cascade the windows and see at a glance where pages are in all opened windows. So I remain hopeful that tabs on top will return for the eagerly anticipated Snow Leopard.

Incidently here is Mr Doob Chrome experiments not your mothers Javascript No.1

and whatever that means is a 100% Javascript Depth of Field animation of

"300 balls form a plane, a cube, a little universe, a sphere and then disappear. Unfortunately this piece is shy and doesn't want to interact with you yet. But nothing stops you from watching it from any angle."

Go here to view an opportunity to Launch the experiment. The animation is on a loop no sooner have the spheres exited that they reappear.

This experiment is a neat new development for Javascript engineering but Flash animations almost completely dominate the internet. Javascript on the other hand hasn't until now looked like emerging as a possible alternative. Nevertheless if you may have understood Mr doob's web page as I, then it seems Mr doob's experiment looks to be marking a path towards Google's operating system!