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creative systems design, generative mograph, working at the intersection of sausages and ketchup
co-founder of

[𝖋𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖗 ☀️🤖 @der_flow_]

Cable Management... #XParticles @insydium

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For many years I've wanted to have a website that shows a constrant stream of cool motion design inspiration to run on a spare screen in a design studio. So I made the FrameRate ScreenSaver which displays a grid of videos from FrameRate and plays random ones all day long.

https://t.co/IxGKBKXLDx

Thanks to @__T_Williams__ and @justincone for making FrameRate what Vimeo used to be, but better!

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Looking forward to receiving another artists files with 10 vibe coded plugins in it that break as soon as the client wants you to change something away from their defaults. The benefit of having someone making a "real" software product is that it goes through a rigorous testing process to find and eliminate all the bugs. Having said that I'll be releasing a specific workflow plugin for a very specific problem on aescript myself soon (vibe-coded), but I do hope I managed to find all the bugs.
The solution might be that people will have to send their source code to their plugins with their scene files so people can fix their own bugs if they need to.
Not really the future that most designers have signed up for =)

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@Ta28312849 @sidefx fileamentsample is a VEX function which essentially calculates a cross product from a given particle position and a curve geometry. It essentially rotates points around a line. It's a really lightweight calculation (this runs almost at 30fps with 8 million particles IIRC)

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We've recently gotten into doing lots of audio-visualization RnD at https://t.co/9zgpslma8n . So I've built a @sidefx Houdini HDA that extracts stems from music and outputs clean midi for the instruments. I've then piped it into a little POP solver advecting particles with the filamentsample() function only, because it looks cool!

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@Duong_A they deserve a comeback!

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This is the third iteration of the setup. I'm using Meta's free and open source DEMUCS for stem extraction, and librosa for analyzing the audio data. Do I know what any of that means? Hell no. But Gemini/ChatGPT/Claude knows and that's good enough for my little Python SOP!

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@bzor @simonfarussell @sidefx yeah it's pretty smooth this way. Load in your audio track, wait a minute for the stems to be separated, your Midi computes within seconds.

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@Flexi23 @Shadertoy Haha love it. One day in the future this will be very much a desired effect. The children will be yearning for the artifacts!

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Why not have the particles move so frantically that the compression on social media fux up the whole thing and then call it artistic intent lol.

[ՖյՊՓի ԻսֆֆԸԼԼ ☀🤖 @simonfarussell]

A bit of data extraction from audio. Using #python and #houdini

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"What bitrate should I export my mp4s in?" I used to wonder this until I found a formula in an old PDF that an Adobe employee created over 15 years ago. I turned it into a little calculator for everyone to use: https://t.co/EeM8PE83yB

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@RadekDubisz it should be fixed now, thanks for mentioning it!

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@simohn I have added it to the website now! Thanks for the great idea!

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@FallenGayms I agree, that's why there's a motion complexity setting. It acts as a multiplier depending on how much is going on in the frame.

[ՖյՊՓի ԻսֆֆԸԼԼ ☀🤖 @simonfarussell]

A little music visualisation experiment.
More info: https://t.co/eMQBzVGt3f
#dataviz #musicvisualization #houdini #ebsynth #suno

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@oyacaro exactly, that's why you can choose the motion complexity, it acts like a multiplier. if you hover over the icons it explains what they mean.

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@RadekDubisz thanks! Working on fixing this!

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@banteg ok bro

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@fagtress Interesting, I'll look into that. I wasn't aware of this, never came across it.

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@simohn great idea! I'll build that in!