A couple different things came together nicely for this next piece. For now, I am calling it Nova, or perhaps Supernova, but I think I might just refer to it as Helios.
A friend of a friend is making music under the name Helios. I have heard a couple of his albums and they are quite pleasant to the ears. I would check out Eingya and Unomia, both by Helios. Quite a few really nice tracks to be found. Here is his myspace link.
So, as I was saying, I ended up using a piece by Helios called ‘Sons of Light and Darkness’ and it just seemed to fit this new project. It is very much about constellations and nebulae and the life and death of stars. It is oh so fitting and it came together nicely in the end.
This also represents the first version of Magnetosphere to implement 3D vectors. Thanks to the fine library by Shiffman, I have graduated to using Vectors to control the movement of the particles through a 3D space. It makes things so much easier. I dont need to worry about the cartesian coordinates… the library takes care of a lot of that behind the scenes. I just need to concern myself with position, velocity, and acceleration, instead of dealing with x-position, y-position, z-position, x-velocity, y-velocity, z-velocity, x-acceleration, you get the idea.
Its the same as I had been doing it, but much cleaner to look at. So, I used this newfound cleanliness to try playing around with the gravity and repulsion settings and ended up with this more outer-spacey effect. I think it works pretty well.
Click here to view the 33MB quicktime video or you can watch the Vimeo version below.
Jesus.
This is really lovely. You keep upping the ante so to speak. Really beautiful, especially with the colors blooming out – you are finding a lot of subtlety from this one idea. Its getting much deeper and interesting both visually and programtically. Great stuff, really great.
Agreed. Very impressive visualization. Inspiring. Great work.
Astonishingly beautiful. Both the visualization and the music!
Very nice indeed.
How do you create your videofiles? Do you use Shiffmans moviemaker library or are you saving each frame as a single image?
thanks all!
Daniel, the process for making these videos is a bit convoluted. Perhaps it deserves a blog entry all its own. But in general, I am using Sonia library for Processing and I am analyzing the audio file 1/30th of a second at a time. I use that bit of data to influence the visuals, much like I would if it were live input from the mic. I save out the frame using saveFrame. Repeat. Once it has finished the entire audio file, I piece all the saveFrame images together in Quicktime, paste in the original audio, and then export out at 30 frames per second.
you should post something about vectors too, i´m looking forward to use it but i can´t get started
Is there any chance of a hi-res version? I would love to full size this thing on my TV.
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OMG, that is just out of this world.
Absolutely gorgeous stuff.
Keep up the great art!
Best,
CJ!
amazing, really nice…. can t stop listening the music, AND watching the animation, the symbiosis is awesome. UN grand bravo, as we say here in France
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PS : and YES, a Hi res dowloadable version would be awesome on my tv ! one day, maybe ?