Hybrid Visuals

Quartz Composer in Resolume Avenue

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:41:09 +0000

This one came out a while back, but it’s still a great feature to know about!

Resolume Avenue 3 & Quartz Composer from Resolume on Vimeo.

Download the patches here

VDMX mouse macro

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:33:47 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of live drawing and other visuals that require X and Y inputs lately. VDMX has the wonderful feature that you can publish a structure input from your Quartz Composer path with ‘xy’ in front of the name. It will then show up as an interface element with x and y sliders and a 2d point picker. To make it even better, you can sync these to the mouse in a preview window, allowing you to draw inside the interface without having your mouse on the second output!

The downside is that the xy-input shows up as a structure in the 0…1 range, and QC needs different coordinates. So to save myself some time, I’ve made a macro that handles all the structure splitting and math interpolation. The whole thing is dynamic, and will give correct coordinates no matter what aspect ratio you’re working on, making it ideal for triplehead setups.

Download here and then place inside in ~yourhomefolder/Library/Application Support/Apple/Developer Tools/Quartz Composer/Clips on Leopard or ~/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Patches on Snow Leopard.

Hope it’s useful to someone!

QC clips for Arkaos GrandVJ

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:35:32 +0000

A while back I was approached by the kind folks from Arkaos. They asked whether they could include some of my Quartz Composer patches with the latest version of GrandVJ, which introduced support for QC clips and effects. Always willing to spread the QC gospel, we worked out a deal that they could include about a dozen of my patches.

Now, half a year later a blog post surfaces, which has some hilariously funny pictures and story on a company using a demo version of GrandVJ at a gig. You can imagine my surprise when I looked closely at the pictures, and saw that lo and behold, my patches are used in the background!

I couldn’t have hoped for a better stage to see them back on!

Click here for the full story!

La plus belle

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:21:27 +0000

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.

QC tutorial 6: Dynamic slideshow

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:56:07 +0000

No 6 is a quickie on how to scan a folder for images, and have those available in VDMX as a slideshow with dynamic content.

Oh, and sorry for the Lady Gaga track. I couldn’t resist.

Quartz Composer tutorial 6: Dynamic Slideshow from goto10 on Vimeo.

Opening and closing music by PSAPP.

Tron A/V remix

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:57:37 +0000

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

Enjoy

Presenting at Ableton’s ten year anniversary

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:18:01 +0000

On Saturday the 21st of November, Ableton Live celebrated its 10th birthday at the Sugar Factory (under the ingenious moniker of Able-10)

We took the opportunity to show how to take AV sets to the next level, by showing off the way you can integrate Resolume Avenue with Ableton Live.

For a full video tutorial on how to do this, check here: http://www.hybridvisuals.nl/tutorials/syncing-ableton-live-and-resolume-avenue/ and for a full video of the result check here: http://www.hybridvisuals.nl/video/tron-av-remix/

Syncing Ableton Live and Resolume Avenue

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:07:09 +0000

This video tutorial shows you how to synchronise Avenue from Live using MIDI.

Resolume Avenue & Ableton Live MIDI Sync from Resolume on Vimeo.

For a full video of what can be the result check here: http://www.hybridvisuals.nl/video/tron-av-remix/

Random text effect

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:06:55 +0000

A QCtextsource for VDMX that wipes the text on and off the screen with random letters and symbols.

Inspired by COD:Modern Warfare 2 and Alx Toneburst.

Controls for duration, font size and font selection.

goto10_randomtext_vdmx.qtz.zip

As Hiltmeyer noted correctly in a comment elsewhere on this site, the spacing on the letters can be off a little bit. This has to do with the way QC breaks up the string into individual letters. I’m still looking into this, but in the meanwhile it works fine for ‘fixed-width’ fonts such as Courier, Andale Mono, Monaco and my personal tech favourite OCRA.

‘M8 Trace’ Quartz Composer effect

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:33:46 +0000

Following up on a thread on the Vidvox user forums, this effect recreates the ‘trace’ look from Modul8. It’s Image Filter compliant, so it should work in all programs that support Quartz Composer Image Filters.

It uses a Core Image kernel originally written by Memo Akten to apply a luma key.

M8 Trace effect

Controls for trail length, luma key threshold and luma key softness.

goto10_m8trace.qtz.zip