An archive of our old posts.
A really useful article (many thanks to the many people named in the article for doing the hard work!), on the best codec for encoding video clips for VJing. I wish I had read this before I plumped for Photo JPEG - dagnamit!!
PS: Check out some of the neat Quartz Composer experiments that Momo the Monster is posting up on The Lava Flow. Sweeet
Mark Hauenstein | Portfolio: “I create memory products that digitally capture, store and retrieve experiences. By applying physical properties to digital data I intend to encourage more intuitive and playful interactions with digital content often prevented by the formless and transient nature of data. ”
Really great pieces of physical computing and the like from an RCA Interaction Design graduate - man those guys produce some quality work!
MidiTron: “MidiTronTM is a new MIDI to real-world interface designed to simplify the process of creating sensor and robotics based electronic art projects. It is easily user configurable and provides 20 terminals of digital and analog inputs and outputs in any combination.”
Looks pretty cool - makes it nice and easy (maybe); I'm still going to try and roll my own for the experience of it, but it may be useful to others (or to me down the line when I fail dismally!).
Beautiful visual forms
I thought I would post a few little quartz composer bits here that may be of help to others. This one is designed to rotate a cube (for instance) by a pre-set angle, in a pre-set amount of time upon a signal (eg a key press). It's not pretty and could probably be simplified, but it does work.
Duration :
how long to move an increment
increase / decrease:
positive or negative increment signal (NB: you have to increase before it can decrease!)
increment:
how much to increment by (by the time it has finished)
Max:
when to roll over
reset:
signal to return to 0
Take your rotation off the rolled-over value.
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Little video of some of the visual stuff from Friday night. You can see images of 2 flyers that the owner of the club wanted in there, also there are some images that he wanted included. I love the fact that in quartz composer, you can alter compositions on the fly; adding in new elements, taking out old, etc. It's not just about being able to modify pre-existing settings. Really awesome; in fact it kind of makes me want to stay within the actual quartz composer application, rather than creating some sort of stand alone application.
