Processing on Vimeo

Cast: Giul Viera & Fabia Oliveira

2.5D - Polar Panoramic Video from Valentijn Kint on Vimeo.

Speaking of Adobe’s new Pixel Bender, VKNT writes about work he’s doing with polar views, as modified in an application that processes panoramic images called Pano2VR. It’s not a real-time process, in this case (though the finished result is built in Processing), but I don’t see why you couldn’t do some filter math in something like Pixel Bender or a conventional OpenGL filter that would do the same live. Could be fun stuff. VKNT writes:

This is part of my research on movement in space and new ways to represent this. It is essentially a series of 360° panoramas following a path through a space. These spherical images are converted to an angular projection, which introduces a typical distortion. The further you get away from the center, the more distortion. The center of the image is determined by 3 parameters: pan, tilt en roll. I animated these parameters resulting in a sense of movement and deformation of the space.
More info and downloadable .mov file at:
vknt.be/2008/09/25/25d-happy-new-ears-rez-08/

Ideas, dear readers?

Please hold your popcorn: “The Gakken SX-150 is a little analog synthesizer kit that came packaged in a recent issue of a Japanese DIY science magazine.” Awesome, isn’t it?

It has got not that much features, but it is pretty ready to get bend. The parameters are quite standard for some analogue device, with LFO, cutoff, resonance etc. Instead of a mini-keyboard, it has got a ribbon-controller to create legato sounds and things like that. You also have the ability to let music and other sounds run through that device, in order to manipulate the sounds. The build in speaker will be your friend.

The sound seem to be pretty fat. Just take this demonstration to remove any last questions:

Here with a selfmade sequencer controller.

Where can I buy this genius magazine in Germany? (via)

If you have enough of all this bending and messing around, than it’s time for a walk outside. Since the winter season is about to start, I highly recommend getting yourself a warm cap. Like this Megaman-Cap. If you can’t buy it, you have to make it yourself. The good advice: Hey designers, please support us with more small scale shops equipped with your lovely stuff.

Baby steps towards visualizing audio…

Coded in Processing, this merely responds to the amplitude of the audio track used.

Unfortunately I haven’t managed to sync the audio/video data together yet, so just the visuals will have to do for now.

I used the track Sequent C’ by Tangerine Dream to produce this quick sketch. I was extremely surprised to see how much variation in visuals could be achieved by experimenting with musical genres.

Cast: Matt Robinson

Cast: urkietown

Well I finally caved in and bought an iPhone - and my favorite feature (and main reason for buying it) is of course the multi-touch capabilities. So currently OSCemote is my favourite app. Apart from having a few sliders and knobs which transmit OSC (similar to TouchOSC), it also has a multitouch pad which sends out TUIO messages, so any app which responds to TUIO (E.g. anything written with reactivision api) will respond. So I had to try out my visualization for the Roots project! Up and running in 5 minutes! Awesome! (I had to rotate the coordinates in my processing code though to have the long end of the iphone screen map to the long end of my desktop screen, slightly annoying that this isn’t an option in the app… hopefully soon :P).

more info on Roots at memo.tv/projects/roots_minitek_festival_2008

Cast: Memo Akten

I recently had the true pleasure of spending a weekend with the creators of Processing, Casey Reas and Ben Fry, at Miami University. Ira Greenberg, the author of Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art and newly minted shepherd of Processing hacks, organized the weekend and I am extremely grateful for being invited to tag along. I focused mostly on putting together a set of tutorials for the Processing web site, some adapted from my new book Learning Processing. The hope is to really flesh this section of the site out so if anyone has a tutorial they’d like to contribute, please feel free to write. We’ll be doing this again a few more times this year (perhaps even having a session at ITP!). I’m looking forward to many more wacky Processing adventures.

More at Casey’s blog:

Miami University is generously funding a series of Processing development workshops. The first workshop took place from 18 to 21 September. Ben Fry, Dan Shiffman, Ira Greenberg, and myself worked together to improve the examples, start a series of tutorials, and work through some conceptual issues related to adding a new PShape class. Additional topics included the future of Processing’s libraries and other implementations of Processing (C++, Ruby, Python, etc.) Ira Greenberg, an associate professor at Miami and author of “Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art”, got this started and we’re very grateful for the support of the Interactive Media Studies (IMS) program, directed by Glenn Platt. The next Oxford Project will take place from 20 to 23 November.

Cast: urkietown

Just messing around in Processing, creating some rectangles that rotate at varying rates over time from which a waving pattern emerges.

I still aspire to make something that looks nearly as good as flight404’s Processing output.

Cast: Nick “Nick Howes” Howes