Blog Post 3 - Follow up and further research

For the follow up task, we were required to follow a tutorial and create a patch that utilises sub-patches and effects. I began by creating the main patch and then planned to put it into a sub-patch.

I would have liked to have cleaned it up a bit but as I was following the tutorial, I tried to keep as close to what was being shown so I could keep up. This was a relatively simple patch and expanded on a lot of things we had done in classes. This created an effect and changing various things would have a different outcome. Then it was to add effects after turning it into a sub-patch.

The first effect I tried was dots. Remembering what was done in class, I turned the render into a texture to connect it to the filter and then another render, through a fullscreen quad.

I tried it with the tunnel filter and this was the outcome.

It was great to experiment with lots of filters and get a feel for the effect and visuals that could be created in VVVV just by creating and manipulating a shape.

For research, I started to look at existing patches that were fairly simple.

(GuiTwo, 2012)

I was able to download this patch but upon looking at it, theres a few nodes I still don’t know so I would like to learn about those in future. This is a shape that reacts to music using a beat detector. I like the geometric and simplistic design but wish it would fill the screen more.

Being a little more ambitious, I found a video of a simple music visualiser that’s being projection mapped onto shapes.

(J.P, 2016)

I feel like its important to realise that even a simple design can be used in quite a complex and effective way and that bigger isn’t always better. It can be simple yet functional.

For my project, I would like to stick to this principle. Create something that’s relatively simple, but functional and visually appealing. In a room it should complement the area and not take it over. Just a bold shape, bright colours and reactive to music.

References

GuiTwo, 2012. cubos_coloridos. [Art].

J.P, T., 2016. Music Visualisation with vvvv. [Art].