Hybrid Visuals

Shaping the Random || Quartz Composer and other generative experiments

Video

  1. Your Own Personal Space

    Your Own Personal Space from goto10 on Vimeo.

    Procedural animation from 2009, made in Processing.

    At the time I was living with 3 other people in an apartment that in hindsight probably was way too small for us. Although I started working on this animation to get my head around flocking and self organizing algorithms, when I showed it to one of my housemates, she said ‘That’s nice…..Maybe we should look for a bigger place.’ I guess it was one of those cases where your surroundings unintentionally find their way into your work.

    At the start of the animation, the location and size of the circles are distributed randomly. The circles will then move around, until they organize themselves into a pattern where everyone has ‘enough personal space’. Depending on the start up values, this process can happen quite quickly, or stretch over many minutes.

    There’s two things that I still like seeing after almost two years. One is that two circles can be very close and actually overlap, but still not move. I like to think they are the ones that are in love. The other is that even though things can seemingly settle down, one agitated circle can cause a chain reaction, stirring up the entire frame and causing everyone to have to re-align.

    Music. Afghamistam by Botch. Nothing audio responsive is happening, but I found the song quite fitting. And Botch fucking rocks.

    Source code and .pde file on hybridvisuals.nl/​processing/​yourownpersonalspace/​

     
  2. New Quartz Composer loop pack

    Available via Resolume

     
  3. Showreel 2011

    Showreel 2011 from goto10 on Vimeo.

    Summer has arrived, and this new showreel was long overdue.

    Commercial, personal and live work from 2009-2011.

    Audio: Final Approach, by Buck65
    “With fire in my lungs tonight, I travel at the speed of thought.”

     
  4. Wavering Radiant

    Another one that has been on Vimeo for a while, but couldn’t be missed here:

    Wavering Radiant from goto10 on Vimeo.

    The result of working crazy hours for a corporate client for too long, and then coming back to Quartz Composer: dark and flowing visuals, accompanied by dark and angry music.

    It’s for a large part influenced by Eavan Roborant’s live drawing work with Alchemy. Although this version is completely generated by the audio frequencies, it could be controlled by tablet input as well.

    Uses Kineme GL Line Structure, vertexnoise GLSL patch, and Vade’s V002 Blur.

    Music: Hand of the Host by Isis.

     
  5. La plus belle

    La Plus Belle from goto10 on Vimeo.

    Audio reactive composition using Kineme GL tools and built in particle patch.

    The amount of particles is influenced by the audio amplitude (obviously ;-) ). The bass frequencies influence the amplitude of the oscillation of the line, creating a rather nice parallax effect.

    Even with the added RII and blurring, still runs at a steady 30fps at 1920×1080 on my NVIDIA 8600.

    Audio: Previously unreleased track by Seth Matteucci.

     
  6. Tron A/V remix

    The great Airway-X and myself rocking out a Tron AV remix with Ableton Live and Resolume Avenue in sync.

    Enjoy

     
  7. Kinki Universe

    Kinki Universe from goto10 on Vimeo.

    Corporate job for Kinki Kappers, a hairdressing company from Amsterdam. It was one of those awful open briefs (“here’s a bunch of pictures, make something cool with it, you know, like with 3d and stuff”), and I spent a long time figuring out which direction to take it. In the end both the client and I were very pleased with the result.

    I decided to upload it, because it marks my first steps into using Quartz Composer and realtime graphics code for corporate productions as well. Instead of just using After Effects, this also features some QC compositions (most notably Vade’s Rutt Etra plugin) all rendered using Kineme Quartz Crystal.

    Music: ‘Pieces’ by Chase and Status

     
  8. Creative Science – DJ Trax

    This is the video for DJ Trax’s ‘Creative Science’. For more info and music please visit djtrax.wordpress.com

    Music = Math = Emotion = Science

     
  9. Shady – DJ Trax

    This is the official music video for DJ Trax’s Shady. To check out more info about his new album please go to: djtrax.wordpress.com

    Shady – DJ Trax from roborant on Vimeo.

     
  10. Showreel ’08

    A collection of commercial, personal and live work from 2007/08