Visuals for soundscape

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melisande

in Share your Work • 1 year ago

To make the visuals I used minim to be able to make the visuals respond to the audio.

The basic idea is that there is a matrix of cubes. Each cube has an randomized age, and according to this age it grows. Once the growth reaches a certain percent, characteristics of the cube change.

Let me know what you think of it, I am curious to know :)

Replies(3)

baordog

Beautiful! I love it.

Can we see the code?

I think the cubes disappearing so suddenly can be a bit jarring. Maybe some kind of transitional animation might be the trick. As an aside:

These sorts of examples always seem to bog down my CPU. I wonder if there's a way to access 3d acceleration in processing.

calsign

Re: Re: Visuals for soundscape

1 year ago

By 3D acceleration, do you mean OpenGL?

Also, that looks great!

melisande

Re: Re: Visuals for soundscape

1 year ago

I have placed the code for download here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5104699/cubeSystem_Audio_3_final.zip

Must say it is quite messy, especially the bits where the timing of certain changes is controlled - they seem to be all over the place. Might not be very generative in that perspective, but it's a fair try I think :)

About the cubes disappearing: I translate them a bit more away into depth every frame, and it seems once they reach a certain depth they disappear by themselves. I've noticed this odd behaviour in other sketches as well, but I don't mind the desintegration effect that it brings :)

I do notice now that at the end my timing is a bit off, music stopped 30 seconds before lol

For the rendering I used the OpenGL renderer, like calsign suggests. The blending effects too are done with OpenGL, so that makes it faster

And I'm very glad you both like it :) It was my first 'big' processing project hehe :)