MutantQuartz

The second of todays videos. A few elements used in this Quartz Composition were from the work of others, I shall try to get their names so I can give attribution here.

The first of 6 videos that are silent, featuring things Ive been tinkering with in Quartz Composer in the last week or so.

Thanks to everyone for all the positive comments about the videoblogging week videos. I had a rest this week but am planning to post a bunch of videos this weekend. Posting this message is my way of making sure I actually stick to that plan

Well I just spent about 5 hours messing around with making stuff react to midi notes, but Ive totally botched the demo of this, the music didnt record at a listenable volume and the day ends in 5 minutes. So I guess there will be 8 days to my videoblogging week as I will attempt to post a more useful demo on Sunday.

Well I spent all evening trying to get an example of the Jazzmutant multi-touch stuff being used to controlling visuals, but I had a load of technical problems. So I had to fall back on a keyboard thingy I was working on months ago, which isnt really a good example of what the Jazzmutant can do but I used it anyway. Apologies for the poor quality of this clip, I need to go and eat food but there’s less than an hour left of Friday here in the UK, so I rushed it big time.

Tonight a rushed experiment which started off as some splines in Quartz Composer, using the excellent GLTools plugin from Kineme . Then I loaded the Quartz Composition into VDMX and used a Kaleidoscope effect and a colour effect. Then I made a noise using Reaktor. I guess it took about an hour in total, and isnt the sort of thing Id normally do or post. It may end up getting used as the texture for some part of a 3D model one day, or I may look at it again and decide its not much cop. Oh how I wish Id been able to take this week off work, Ive surrounded myself with powerful tools that I havent even got time to get beyond the surface of yet. The multi-touch aspect of what I hope to achieve has not even begun, maybe I can post something about that tomorrow.

Another unfinished creation gets his jaw wired up to the sounds that come out of my mouth.

For more than half an hour this evening, this thing was a dodgy pyramid but then it turned into something that made strange patterns, so I thought I may as well post it. But various stages of my capture & compression did not treat it too kindly, it hasnt turned out too well compared to how it looks in realtime in quartz composer. Oh well, thats another thing for the todo list, more codec unjoys and lost hours to come! And for the 2nd day in a row Im too lazy to even record my own voice, tsk tsk.

Again I havent finished this yet so its only half-baked, but here is a strange face done in Quartz Composer. The lips will be in sync with the voice one day, honest

Well its videoblogging week 2008, so I will be attempting to post 7 video’s in 7 days. This first one just shows the latest member of the 3D band, plus the guitarist you’ve seen before, but rendered with a yellow neon effect. Later in the week there will be a few random things Ive been trying in Quartz Composer, and hopefully a few video’s that show how its done. Im not good enough to post proper tutorials yet, but Ive got to start somewhere I suppose.