Blog Post 2 - Research and Follow up

During this session, we were taught about different types of spread and how they look in VVVV as well as the set slice node. The exercises included a mock restaurant menu that added text and values from an input box with multiple options and creating different shapes and colours with the spread nodes.

For the follow up work, one of the tasks was to create a patch with a circular spread of 15 with a bang that made the circle become bigger or smaller.

Using what we had done before, I found it relatively easy to do. I figured that it would need to switch between two inputs creating two states for the circle to switch between. This is where I added switches to width and height of the circular spread. I manually created the input numbers by right clicking and dragging till I was satisfied with the shape. Then I created the toggle node to set up the bang that would switch between these two inputs and connected them. To finish it off, I added two dampers to create a fluent motion. It would be a good idea to use an lfo to switch between them automatically if I needed to.

This was using a node to generate a random spread of 10 and use the set slice node to select the 3^rd slice. Remembering that 0 is the first slice, I wrote 2 to select the right one. 

I began to look into music visualizers and some existing examples of work.

(lecloneur, 2012)

This is just a still image that was posted but I loved the dimension within it. The variation of colours is very attractive and the idea of moving lines and shapes is appealing. It would be great to see it in action but it would look good if it seemed like the user was travelling into this design by having the shapes expand and come forward.

I then came across a video that reacted with changing levels in music. This included volume and specific parts of the sound.  The first image is with a lot of sound and the second is during the calmer parts of the music.

(DunkingMachine, 2014)

I similar idea and project is done with a group of bubbles instead. The same principle applies with the first being its resting state and the second is with music as live data, changing its form and shape. 

        (Villari, 2013)

These were projects created by VVVV as the program that controls it. For more ideas, I went to look at VJ work. This would involve manual creation of loops using various programmes and manual control.

(Boxcat, 2016)

References

Boxcat, 2015. None. [Art].

Boxcat, 2016. Red Tunnel. [Art].

DunkingMachine, 2014. Generative Project: Audio Visualization - 60 FPS. [Art].

lecloneur, 2012. Visual Music. [Art] (cloneproduction).

Villari, D., 2013. Sound Visualisation. [Art].