I have chosen just three recipes as most of the ones I am trying I can't seem to get to do anything, or they don't do anything very exciting.
1) Party Lights [#48]
This is by far my favorite recipe. It emits particles from a point which the user can dynamically interact with. It has settings for glowing and streaks, all of which look very beautiful. I'm a huge particle fan for motion graphics to begin with.
2) Verlits [#41]
This is the first recipe I stumbled upon that I really spent a long time on and was inspired to get in and start tweaking it. There are a few points floating around, connecting to another point via a line. You can change the tension of the connected lines to make the unit behave as a very interesting organic whole. There is some default noise to the particles which make it move around in an interesting way by default.
3) Scrolly Brush [#44]
This one isn't actually that exciting, I thought it just functioned well. Basically you can paint on a surface, however as you paint the surface starts sliding away at a speed and direction you choose, but the image tessellates so whatever goes off one edge comes on the opposite so you can create interesting seamless patterns very quickly.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Visual Music - Mapping Notes to Color
I found the section in McDonell's "Visual Music" on mapping sound to color to be the most interest.
Perhaps I just saw it first because it was one of the few pictures in the article, but reading about it was still very interesting. To know that it was Newton, a physicist, who was discovering similarities between music and visuals was very incredible.
I also liked the section afterwards where it talks about an old organ in 1877which opened curtains revealing colored stained glass representing each of the notes. So even back then there was a curiosity about the blending of music and visuals.
Perhaps I just saw it first because it was one of the few pictures in the article, but reading about it was still very interesting. To know that it was Newton, a physicist, who was discovering similarities between music and visuals was very incredible.
I also liked the section afterwards where it talks about an old organ in 1877which opened curtains revealing colored stained glass representing each of the notes. So even back then there was a curiosity about the blending of music and visuals.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Lorenz Chaos
The chaos I chose to use was known as the Lorenz system. I chose it because it sounded familiar from DiffEQ, but I was mistaking it for "Lorentz," which the Wikipedia article even opens by saying:
"the Lorenz equations, note it is not Lorentz"
The Lorenz system is a parametric function which when mapped over X, Y, and Z, creates somewhat of a mix between a figure-8 and a butterfly. I personally think it looks like two galaxies colliding.
There is not much else I can really say about it, as it's mostly differential equations and nitty gritty that I don't fully understand. I have to say however, it looks quite pretty.
Here is a video of it being formed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYE4JKAXSfY
- David
"the Lorenz equations, note it is not Lorentz"
The Lorenz system is a parametric function which when mapped over X, Y, and Z, creates somewhat of a mix between a figure-8 and a butterfly. I personally think it looks like two galaxies colliding.
There is not much else I can really say about it, as it's mostly differential equations and nitty gritty that I don't fully understand. I have to say however, it looks quite pretty.
Here is a video of it being formed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYE4JKAXSfY
- David
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