While playing with the Tendril code, I started to get more and more fascinated by the particle engine that is creating the bubble objects. For this version, I shortened the main tendril lengths, killed off the tendril branches and pulled the bubble emitter back towards the skin of the main tendril (sounds vaguely dirty).
Quicktime version or check the Vimeo version below.
Tendrils mod from flight404 and Vimeo.
Love it!
You make it look like post processed video with all those objects in purified movement.. It’s really amazing to try to “read” the code, triggers, math etc from looking at the video..
Great job!
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This is phenomenal, ephemeral, and…sublime. At some point, superlatives kind of lose their punch. I just found this, after having seen your video on Jeff Ericson’s site (Ernie’s 3D Pancakes) and glossed over with a “Wow, that’s neat” and neglected to dig. Downloaded Processing, and I’ll be playing with it tonight. Some of the examples, e.g. tying physical models to relationships which aren’t typically accessed conceptually that way, really fire the inspiration grey matter. Your Tentacles stuff blows my mind.
So, here’s a little bit of unrelated synchronicity:
1. I end up on An Entirely Other Day by some means I can’t recall.
2. I end up noticing that Lance Arthur was involved to some degree in the site’s creative direction.
3. I remember my great appreciation for Glassdog since the early days when there was, like, a glass dog element on the site.
4. I click on the link, load Glassdog, and realize that it’s time to sleep or do some other mundanely human thing.
5. Go to work.
6. On a whim, visit Ernie’s 3D Pancakes.
7. On a whim, follow link to all manner of distractions.
8. Leave work.
9. Do mundane human stuff.
10. Come back to computer, review latest (using the term loosely) post on Glassdog, only to find it’s about your iTunes plug-in developed, I presume, at least partially from Processing materials.
11. On a whim, leave entirely over-wrought and potentially inappropriately long-winded comment on your blog.
This is why I wish there were some more generalized coComment or Gravatar-like glue between blogs: I would like to see a 3D spring-physics-based morphological graph showing just how small the web really is.
Cheers, and apologies for partially monopolizing your comment domain here.
Daniel
Cosmic! Lance and I are a power couple. How about popping over to Glassdog.com or LanceArthur.com and reading him the riot act. He is an uber talented writer that just doesnt write enough anymore. Give him hell! Oh and thanks for the great comments. Make em as long as you please! I dont censor here, unless you wanna sell me pharmaceuticals or perhaps something to make my wang longer.
I was about to, and then saw that he’s actually writing. You preemptively stole my thunder, or gave me empty thunder, or something equally awkward to metaphorize.
Hi, robert,
Sorry for posting this message here, but I couldn’t find your e-mail anywhere…
I’m producing a Digital Arts Festival in Brazil and I’d like to show some of your works here.
Please, contact me and I’ll tell you more about it.
Robert,
May I ask you to please contact me. I am organizing a conference on developing new research into the treatment of stroke and I would like to show/run one of your works during a segment of our meeting where we develop consensus recommendations for improving the quality of research. Your Supernova presents an intriguing and imiginative visualization of how neurons might be dancing in our brains. Thank you.