Magnetic Ink, pt. 2

Decided to let it run overnight and save out prints every 100 frames and save out the actual camera view every frame so people can see better what is going on. The image above is a detail from the final print. It consists of 34 different layers (most of which is occluded by newer layers or is blurred into grey).

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Below are some stills from the video which shows the engine responsible for making the prints. There are 2000 particles responding to the magnetic pull of 7 large black spherical magnets. Each particle has a ‘tail’ which is blown outwards from the spherical magnets.

View the Vimeo version below, or if your pipes are big enough, check out the Quicktime version which comes in at around 108 MB. The audio is ‘Kirlian Isles III’ off the album ‘Kirlian Selections’ by the Flashbulb.


Magnetic Ink, test render 01 from flight404 on Vimeo.

12 Responses to “Magnetic Ink, pt. 2”

  1. Hugues says:

    Wouah !!!

    This is so good.
    Amazing piece !

    Bravo.

  2. Gustin says:

    I’m completely blown away every time I see something of yours. Absolutely amazing.

  3. mb09 says:

    very cool
    i love your works

  4. Anonymous says:

    It looks like a bad case of throbbing melanoma. Maybe it’s the color scheme.

  5. jon says:

    you’ve certainly crossed and passed the line of real-time compositing into full video rendering with that many pixels! daaaamn… looks great. actually it looks like a piece of growing mold. ewww but nice–

    you’re on a roll, keep it going!

  6. wes says:

    flashbulb!!

  7. Ginga Blah says:

    Magnetic Ink da Flight404…

    Magnetic Ink é um teste de render da flight404 utilizando Processing. O resultado ficou insano!

    ……

  8. Really Fantastic!

    I love the all the smoothness there…

  9. Jake says:

    Amazing! What is the music used in the video, BTW?

  10. Jake says:

    Nevermind, just saw that you put the title of the song in the post :)

  11. Diabolik says:

    Jaw drops! … this is so inspiring!

  12. Is this in real time?