Last week I held a class called “Procedural Animation” at the University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg (Masters Degree Digital Arts). After having to listen to some theory, the students had to create a procedural artwork using MEL or Python in Autodesk Maya. The task was to visualize spam-emails. The results are really cool I think. They were all created by generating 3D geometry based on various parameters, gathered from parsed text files (spam emails), and by adding some randomness here and there. Good job!

Spamulisation - Maximilian Lögler, Laura Greil, Sigrid Garstenauer

Spamulisation - Maximilian Lögler, Laura Greil, Sigrid Garstenauer

generative fractal text visualisation – Jürgen Koller, Matthias Isele, Dominique Sellitsch

generative fractal text visualisation – Jürgen Koller, Matthias Isele, Dominique Sellitsch

Spam Invaders – Spam Generated Pixel Enemies – Marko Jelen

Spam Invaders – Spam Generated Pixel Enemies – Marko Jelen

Last Christmas – Paul Pammesberger, Gernot Böhm

Lukas_12_22_32 – Paul Pammesberger, Gernot Böhm

paulihateuchlieb - Paul Pammesberger, Gernot Böhm

Spam‐Columns – Stefan Srb, Marko Jelen

Spam‐Columns – Stefan Srb, Marko Jelen

SpamTree - Alexander Pippan, Stephan Schimpf, Wolfgang Schröck

SpamTree - Alexander Pippan, Stephan Schimpf, Wolfgang Schröck
