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Could you talk more about the software that underpins this stuff? I saw in your comment that the audio is based of sampling of the visuals... is this written in

by RickS 8y ago

Could you talk more about the software that underpins this stuff? I saw in your comment that the audio is based of sampling of the visuals... is this written in Processing or something else? I used to make stuff like this with processing + arduino for inputs, with some fun results that are sadly lost to time.

bravura 8y ago
I am also curious about the audio generation.
- swayvil 8y ago
  see my other reply for more on this. java has a nice low level audio generation tech where you just make a big integer array. I take a radial sample of this field of cells, convert it to audo.... ok, there is no science going on here. I just fucked with the code until it sounded good. Several magic numbers involved. See my github at fleen.org/generative-art for the actual code. The sound generation is only a few dozen lines.
swayvil 8y ago
It's all open source. See fleen.org for my github. The vibrating round thing. The "Whelmer". It's these randomly generated moving fuzzy rings. Moving in or out. Intersecting. The sound isn't so much gotten from a sampling of the visuals as a sampling of the same data that the visuals also sample. That data being a big array of integers, basically. To see it properly you really should download a high-quality video and watch it projected big (like 6' tall) with good speakers. Here's a nice one : https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...
- RickS 8y ago
  Thank you very much! I'll try and see if I can get my hands on a projector again. Generative art != glitch art, but these might be of interest to some people as well, since there was thread about a week ago on PNG glitching, and I went down a rabbithole saving links. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075003 http://www.glitchet.com/resources http://www.glitchet.com/resources https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgpv3a/heres-what-happens-when-you-edit-photos-like-music https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgpv3a/heres-what-happens... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8

by RickS 8y ago

bravura 8y ago

I am also curious about the audio generation.

swayvil 8y ago
see my other reply for more on this. java has a nice low level audio generation tech where you just make a big integer array. I take a radial sample of this field of cells, convert it to audo.... ok, there is no science going on here. I just fucked with the code until it sounded good. Several magic numbers involved. See my github at fleen.org/generative-art for the actual code. The sound generation is only a few dozen lines.

swayvil 8y ago

It's all open source. See fleen.org for my github. The vibrating round thing. The "Whelmer". It's these randomly generated moving fuzzy rings. Moving in or out. Intersecting. The sound isn't so much gotten from a sampling of the visuals as a sampling of the same data that the visuals also sample. That data being a big array of integers, basically. To see it properly you really should download a high-quality video and watch it projected big (like 6' tall) with good speakers. Here's a nice one : https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/6t9skr0ua4le5ma/whelmer46a_5m.mkv?...

RickS 8y ago
Thank you very much! I'll try and see if I can get my hands on a projector again. Generative art != glitch art, but these might be of interest to some people as well, since there was thread about a week ago on PNG glitching, and I went down a rabbithole saving links. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075003 http://www.glitchet.com/resources http://www.glitchet.com/resources https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgpv3a/heres-what-happens-when-you-edit-photos-like-music https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgpv3a/heres-what-happens... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8