UNC Asheville's Fall 2013 Symposium

This project is an exploration of user interface (UI) design and adaptive music. The challenge was to implement cellular automation with musical accompaniment. The user draws a unique pattern on a canvas and then watches their pattern animate as cellular automation. The underlying code is based on Conway’s Game of Life with an added element of interactivity: The user can continue adding cells on the fly while the game runs. The musical accompaniment was the main challenge of the project. The music adapts to the cellular patterns in real time. There are infinite possibilities that arise from different users and timbres. The goal was to make the output sound musical, lifelike and interesting. Natural timbres were chosen over electronic instruments. This project was coded in javascript, node and html5.