came to work, daft punk was playing, i was browsing my hd and opening projects. at some moment i opened this nebulado project which never satisfied me before and for my surprise it reacted quite nice to the track that was playing (Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger), so i fired up Fraps and captured a video.

a smoother version was created which starts slower and builds up progressively, but i prefer this one

track by daft punk.

track: NNY – bdybag.

Anyway, i just took those videos and i have uploaded some of my favourites to vimeo’s account. I believe it’s a good place to keep record of some of the oldies, so check it out if you’re in the mood.

( this is the updated version of the effect. new scene with more growing things )

import java.text.*;
import com.sun.opengl.util.*;
import com.sun.opengl.util.j2d.*;

class VTextRenderer
{
VTextRenderer( String fontName, int size )
{
_fontName = fontName;
_fontSize = size;
_textRender = new TextRenderer( new Font(fontName, Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, size), true, true, null, true );
_textRender.setColor( 1.0f, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 );
//_textRender.setUseVertexArrays( true );
}

VTextRenderer( String fontName, int size, boolean antialiased, boolean mipmap )
{
_fontName = fontName;
_fontSize = size;
_textRender = new TextRenderer( new Font(fontName, Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, size), antialiased, true, null, mipmap );
_textRender.setColor( 1.0f, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 );
//_textRender.setUseVertexArrays( true );
}

void print( String str, int x, int y )
{
_textRender.beginRendering( width, height, true );
_textRender.draw( str, x, y );
_textRender.endRendering();
_textRender.flush();
}

void print( String str, float x, float y, float z )
{
print( str, x, y, z, 1.0f );
}

void print( String str, float x, float y, float z, float s )
{
_textRender.begin3DRendering();
_textRender.draw3D( str, x, y, z, s );
_textRender.end3DRendering();
_textRender.flush();
}

void setColor( float c )
{
setColor( c, c, c, 1 );
}

void setColor( float c, float a )
{
setColor( c, c, c, a );
}

void setColor( float r, float g, float b )
{
setColor( r, g, b, 1 );
}

void setColor( float r, float g, float b, float a )
{
_textRender.setColor( r, g, b, a );
}

void setSmoothing( boolean flag )
{
_textRender.setSmoothing( flag );
}

/// ____________________________________________________
/// Members
int _w, _h;

String _fontName;
int _fontSize;
TextRenderer _textRender;
Font font;
}

import processing.opengl.*;

int WIDTH = 800;
int HEIGHT = 600;
float aspectRatio = WIDTH/(float)HEIGHT;

VTextRenderer textRender;

///___________________________________________________________
void setup()
{
size( WIDTH, HEIGHT, OPENGL );
hint( ENABLE_OPENGL_4X_SMOOTH );
frameRate( 60 );

//  logger = new VLog( this, “log.txt” );

aspectRatio = width/(float)height;

//textRender = new VTextRenderer( “Arial”, 100 );
textRender = new VTextRenderer( “Arial”, 100, true, true );
}

///___________________________________________________________
void draw()
{
// Write in 2d
background( 0 );
textRender.print( “vitamin”, 0, 100 );

// Write in 3d
perspective( PI*0.25,  aspectRatio, 1, 1000 );
camera( 0, 0, 100, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0 );
scale( 1, -1, 1 );  // oh well. processing likes the upside down way, i dont know why.
((PGraphicsOpenGL)g).beginGL();
textRender.print( “vitamin”, 0, 0, sin(millis()*0.001)*100, 1/10.0 );
((PGraphicsOpenGL)g).endGL();
}

///___________________________________________________________
void stop()
{
super.stop();
}

2 days ago i found a website that had a rolling ball made with AS(flash), so i thought, why dont i try [We.are.in.Helsinki] as a 3D application, balls rolling around and all that? That would be fun, and it might get some attention to the art scene – it could or maybe not.. worth a try and there is nothing good on tv, maybe a 3rd dimension will help – i thought.  So  i spent some time working and here is a first working version of [WAIH,3D] (might contain obvious bugs and unattractive features but what tha hell):

WIN32 VERSION | MACOSX VERSION | LINUX VERSION | SOURCE CODE

New versions might come out. I have few ideas for this project, so i believe i will be digging more into it sooner or later. Some better physics comes to mind, some more visual effects, adding human body interaction, maybe multi touch integration. I just need to try out some ideas and see which ones get to see the daylight. Meanwhile rejoy with it, its fun to play and it has source code available for the more creative ones =)

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(video generated with no interaction at all)

http://www.pixelnerve.com/downloads/processing/waih_v4_win32.zip (windows)
http://www.pixelnerve.com/downloads/processing/waih_v4_macosx.zip (mac)
http://www.pixelnerve.com/downloads/processing/waih_v4_linux.zip (linux)

fixed exporting problems (something about minim effects and fullscreen, still a mistery).

new features:

. handle all generators/samples and the activator by click and drag.
. set activation range as global or individually by a toggle button on the menu.
. change frequency/amplitude per generator.
. physics got a little better, not realistic but that wasn’t the point anyway.

it was fun to make. enjoy!