About FEEDBack

FEED consumes the web. A play on the technical term "data feed", FEED does not supply information, it consumes information, reducing structure, meaning and content to a stream of text and pixels. An anti-browser, FEED unravels the web. Contemplative and meditative where the web is commercial and raucous, homogeneous where the web is varied, visual where the web is textual, FEED strips away the distracting veneer of content in an automated, machine driven search for the underlying beauty of the web.

FEED works on the principle of a web 'spider', an automated process that searches the web, reading information from web pages, then following the links that it finds to load more pages and continue it's search. Given a URL as input, FEED will read every byte of text and images contained in the tree of web pages starting at that URL. In the case of a site with many links, such as yahoo.com, FEED may read indefinitely.

 

The interfaceBack
  1. Enter a URL or choose one from the list
  2. Click GO to start processing (or STOP to stop processing)
  3. Click the Display buttons to activate/deactivate displays
  4. Click and drag to move the displays onscreen.
  5. Click and drag the corner box to resize the display.

Line graph of Red, Green and Blue color values
Current pixel displayed in grid
Current pixel color plotted as difference between red and green components
Moving Average of last 1000 color values processed
Scatter chart of current pixel color red and green components
Show movement of pixel color value relative to previous value
Display text of HTML page
Display current pixel color
Display current image (image being processed)

 

ContactBack

Mark Napier
potatoland.org
napier@potatoland.org