Background concert visuals

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liegev

in General Discussion • Other • 2 months ago

Good Morning Y'all,

I'm in a band and we've looking to put some cool visuals behind us as we play. I've started a few attempts, based on generating random sized boxes and ellipses of different colors, but I don't like how it's turned out. I would love to get any suggestions. If I were to really dream big, I would like to see a simple 3D road with randomly generated trees going by.

But if that's a little too ambitious maybe something like this would be cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0jqPvpn3sY

Ultimately, as long as it is constantly and randomly evolving (and easy enough for me to put together) I think it would work. I just plan on running it behind the band with a projector and a laptop.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, sorry for the rambling, and thanks in advance...

Liegev.

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tfguy44

Re: Background concert visuals

2 months ago

Starter code for anyone looking to help...

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int time;
ArrayList<Fly> flies = new ArrayList();
void setup() {
size(600, 400, P3D);//screen.width,screen.height);
//smooth();
colorMode(HSB, 1000);
time = millis()+50;
}
void draw() {
background((millis()/100)%1000, 1000, 1000);
if( millis() > time ){
if( flies.size() < 100 ) flies.add( new Fly() );
time = millis() + 50;
}
for( int i=flies.size()-1;i>=0;i--){ if( flies.get(i).draw() ) flies.remove(i); }
}
final int max_types = 2; // Total number of different things.
class Fly {
int type;
color c, k;
PVector pos, vel, dim;
float rot;
Fly() {
type = int( random(max_types) );
pushStyle();
colorMode(RGB,255);
c = color(random(255), random(255), random(255));
k = color(random(255), random(255), random(255));
popStyle();
if ( random(1) < .5 ) {
pos = new PVector( (random(1)<.5)?width+50:-50, random(height), 0 );
vel = new PVector( -pos.x, random(height), 0);
vel.limit(random(.1, 5));
} else {
pos = new PVector( random(width), (random(1)<.5)?height+50:-50);
vel = new PVector( random(width), -pos.y, 0);
vel.limit(random(.1, 5));
}
dim = new PVector( random(40,200), random(40,200), random(40,200) );
rot = random(TWO_PI);
}
boolean draw(){
pos.x+=vel.x;
pos.y+=vel.y;
rot+=.01;
rot%=TWO_PI;
switch(type){
// case 0:
// pushStyle();
// pushMatrix();
// noFill();//fill(c);
// stroke(c);
// translate(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z);
// rotate(rot);
// rectMode(CENTER);
// rect(0,0,dim.x, dim.y);
// popMatrix();
// popStyle();
// break;
case 1:
pushStyle();
pushMatrix();
fill(c);
noStroke();//stroke(k);
translate(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z);
rotate(rot);
rectMode(CENTER);
rect(0,0,dim.x, dim.y);
popMatrix();
popStyle();
break;
default:
pushStyle();
pushMatrix();
fill(c);
noStroke();//stroke(k);
translate(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z);
rotate(rot);
ellipseMode(CENTER);
ellipse(0,0,dim.x, dim.y);
popMatrix();
popStyle();
break;
}
return( pos.x > width + 60 || pos.x < -60 || pos.y > height + 60 || pos.y < -60 );
}
}

liegev

Re: Background concert visuals

2 months ago

Oh man, this is already spectacular!

I just changed the window size to 1195 by 500 and I've been staring at it four hours.

Thanks!

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