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Recommend some abstract imagery.
 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 16:24 [#02351212]
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I'm making some real time music visualisation things. The
elements on screen move in time with the music and it has a
bunch of controls so you can influence the visuals.

Here's some screenshots of the work in progress. I'd be
interested in you guys listing examples of abstract imagery
that you like that I could nick ideas from.

Preset 1:


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offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 16:24 [#02351213]
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Preset 2:


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offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 16:26 [#02351214]
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Preset 3:


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offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-14 16:34 [#02351216]
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cool, what are you using? jitter?


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 16:39 [#02351217]
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Yup, jitter openGL objects.


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-14 16:41 [#02351218]
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it's looking pretty good btw.

i like these, but maybe they're good because
they're not moving....

also the later stuff by Paul Klee...


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 16:48 [#02351223]
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Nice stuff, good starting points for some more relaxed (less
movement, more about subtle changes in colour and shape)
visualisations.

Thanks Terence!


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-14 16:59 [#02351230]
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i reckon you're using realtime fft and then move things
around according to volume of spectral bands? and beat
detection maybe?

never bothered with fft, cause i thought the analysing can
go only so far... i mean it's hard to extract meaningful
data from a mixed track/song, so i'm kinda going the route
of creating both sound and visual in one process, which
isn't much easier necessarily, but, i found this
EchoNest music analysing API, which seems to do pretty
cool things, haven't used it yet though.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 17:09 [#02351231]
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I'm using an fffb to split the audio. Each bit then goes in
to a biquad filter controlled by filtergraph. All parameters
are user controllable if they are not receiving the results
they want or if they want to mess around, as seen in the pic
below.


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offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-12-14 17:19 [#02351233]
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Reminds me of the twix chart show


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 17:21 [#02351234]
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Good!


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-12-14 17:25 [#02351238]
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Hi, I can't really offer any meaningful suggestions but it
looks good so far!


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-12-14 17:26 [#02351239]
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Ooo gescom. Mail sent.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-12-14 17:35 [#02351240]
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But its not 1993


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-12-14 17:36 [#02351241]
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May I request that you include the colors
urnge and turkwise in your animations?


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 17:39 [#02351244]
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So?


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 17:39 [#02351245]
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Yes, of course.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-12-14 17:57 [#02351254]
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Beem me up spotty


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-14 18:00 [#02351256]
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I have a spot behind my ear, it turned up the day after my
house mate was rubbing my head. Now, I'm not pointing any
fingers, but I've never had a spot anywhere around there
before and it is a bit too coincidental...


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-14 18:02 [#02351257]
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yeah it seems Jitter has very dominant artifacts, much like
Flash. You see if something is done in Flash and you see if
something is done in Jitter. but what gives? 90s were fun.

also, i'm so going to learn proper Java now.


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-12-14 18:20 [#02351269]
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Eugh. I hope it's the friction that did it, and not parasite
infested hands.


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2009-12-14 22:33 [#02351371]
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preset 2 looks good.

you might look here


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-12-15 00:41 [#02351378]
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Different strokes for different blokes.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-12-15 14:20 [#02351552]
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cool stuff sam! i don't think i have seen similar visuals
anywhere before. my fav is the third.


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2009-12-15 14:28 [#02351557]
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The second one looks like, well, an abstract art piece.


 

offline Suffocate Peon from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 17:48 [#02351611]
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http://a-r-v.deviantart.com/


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-15 18:07 [#02351620]
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are these made with code? what do you use?


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-12-15 18:12 [#02351622]
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processingtarget=_blank>LAZY_TITLEProcessing is better for
that sort of thing. There's a few easier one but the
physics in processing are good.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-12-15 18:13 [#02351624]
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this


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-15 18:15 [#02351626]
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yeah, you know, you're right, you fucking knob.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 18:19 [#02351628]
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I'm interested in Processing but this is for a uni module
where we have to use Max and only Max. Hurrah!


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 18:22 [#02351632]
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Don't bring bare mood in my lovely sharing thread boy!


 

offline freqy on 2009-12-15 18:36 [#02351637]
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i wish for bubbles OooOO and .....clouds and
......white/blue fire that is like a hot shower to bathe
in.


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 18:41 [#02351641]
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you could look at the js javascript object in max for doing
generative visuals. . . i'd imagine code would be more
straightforward for generating recursive things.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 18:43 [#02351643]
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Gute idee my man. I shall have to learn Javascript sooner or
later.


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 18:52 [#02351647]
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the tutorials and javascript pdf are quite useful- you can
call instances of all max/msp/jitter objects in the code so
you can avoid those freeze/resume errors max is fond of
spitting out.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-12-15 18:55 [#02351650]
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Haha!


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-15 19:22 [#02351665]
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what the fuck do you mean by physics?


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-12-15 19:26 [#02351667]
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I don't have the time or patience to explain basic physics
to you if you know fuck all about java.


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-15 19:33 [#02351671]
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heh, you're the most arrogant brick of shit i've ever seen
on the internetz. i've yet to see you deliver anything.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-12-15 19:36 [#02351672]
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Haha! I'm only messing around. I'll stop it and get on with
what I should be doing. g'night terence.


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2009-12-15 19:38 [#02351674]
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good night Jivver.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 19:39 [#02351675]
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Pack it in! This is the sharing thread I say!


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 19:51 [#02351682]
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I hate being a student. I miss working full time and renting
my own place with money that I didn't have to pay back. I
miss living with people I actually like. I miss making stuff
because it was fun and interesting. Over Christmas I have to
work in a shitty comedy club to earn a bit of dosh and score
some shitty student horror film which I had to script
because it appears they let any cunt who can scrawl an 'x'
on a piece of paper in to university these days, hell they
let me in on the basis of a CD of hastily knocked together
shite and didn't once ask for qualifications.

Rant over.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 19:52 [#02351684]
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In short, university is full of cunts, like me.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-12-15 19:55 [#02351686]
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Keep your head up!

That's my best advice.

I've been lucky since I was 15 onwards but if you need some
help give us a message.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 20:02 [#02351692]
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Nah I'm good, just a little shocked at how people aged 18-21
seem to be happy with spending three grand in fees a year
and then pissing it away in the form of shit marks through
laziness. Group work is a fucking nightmare! I only did a
degree because the clearing day popped up one year and I
thought 'you know what, I could do that' and kind of applied
for a laugh, then got in despite having no A levels (?!?!)
then, of course, over the next few years I got in to it, I
learnt fuck all in the first year and did well and thought
'I could bloody ace this' then in the last year half of my
projects rely on some snotty nosed shit to get off of his
arse for long enough to go and get a single form and fill it
in, which he then fails to do. I'm sure you've encountered
similarly thoroughbred twats in your endeavours.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-12-15 20:05 [#02351695]
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I don't know if this applies but Frank Zappa once said, "If
you wanna get laid, goto college, if you wan't to get an
education, goto a library"


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2009-12-15 20:07 [#02351698]
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The education part is very true.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-12-15 20:12 [#02351703]
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It's only fresh in my mind as my first girlfriend e-mailed
me the other week and was refreshing my mind about her dad
stumbling in on us when we were totally nude supposedly
looking after her little sister. She grabbed all our
clothes and hid in the corner and I was saying 'Give me my
socks!'



 


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