Texture Baking Tutorial from Matthew Kozak on Vimeo.

Great tutorial from Matthew Kozak on utilising Blender’s Bake technique and porting it to Processing.
Source files are available: http://www.screamyguy.net/bakinghowto/index.htm

Texture Baking Tutorial from Matthew Kozak on Vimeo.

Great tutorial from Matthew Kozak on utilising Blender’s Bake technique and porting it to Processing.
Source files are available: http://www.screamyguy.net/bakinghowto/index.htm

Daniele Comments:

I realised a little Processing sketch that tracks the light blob I shot in front of webcam, normalises X and Y coordinates to MIDI acceptable values, and then sends them to a filter effect in Ableton Live.

I also realised the little control panel that allows to correctly make the MIDI mapping and set some blob detection’s params.

My toolkit:
Processing.org
MIDI: theMidiBus Processing‘s library
blob detection: openCV Processing‘s library
GUI: controlP5 Processing’s library
Ableton Live

Software might be released soon, depending on conditions given from University where Daniele Mattei is undertaking a study.

Using Processing for Live Visual creation is its own state of mind. Collectively and individually there is a massive share of amazing projects and sketches that keep opening up possibilities of exploration towards unique multimedia overall.

Here comes ToonLoop(Drawing Lively)
One such project worth a mention is ToonLoop. Simply speaking, -Toonloop is a device for creating live video cartoons. Yes, really!

Images are added one by one using a pedal which, when pressed, takes a picture and added to the loop of images. Processing.og (Win/OSX) takes care of controlling the functionality and functions, Python port is available on Linux. All together it comes together form an animated film. In the course of your gig , you’ll be able to do several small films like this. This may be a cartoon, or even stop the motion. (frame by frame).

The initial intention of this project was to teach new media element to children and also to create a professional tool for movie creators. Please check it out fro yourself,- highly recommended : ToonLoop.

Download ToonLoop:
http://toonloop.com/?q=download

The ToonLoop Animation Tools for Movies Creators by Alexandre Quessy and Tristan Matthews

New Features : Mother 0.6:

• Small mistakes fixed from previous 0.5 release: Waltz synth example was not working, and I failed to mention in the documentation that you also need the Shapetween library to develop new synths. Note: Shapetween is a library for Processing that provides an easy way of animating elements within a sketch in a variety of ways.
• More comprehensive secondary screen support introduced.
• pre(), draw(), post() and dispose() methods are now called properly in synth libraries.
• It is no longer necessary to put an Init() method in sketches intended as Synths for Mother (Finally!).

Download:
As always, you can download the latest version from the Google code repository!

Version 6.0.1 has been added with minor tweaks!
http://code.google.com/p/processing-mother/downloads/list

To Download Mother version 0.5.0, visit from Google code repository and grab your preferred version (PC/OSX).

Onar3D – Triton Leaves – Festival Version – HD from Onar3D on Vimeo.

About Mother
A library & host by Ilias Bergstrom for the programming environment processing.org, with contributions by Krzysztof Goliński and Alice Lottini. Last update, 06-Oct-2009.

From the colour organs of past centuries, to todays VJing and new media art performances, artists and scientists have shown perpetual interest in the live performance of visual imagery.

The limited aesthetic flexibility permitted by existing tools however has meant that artists striving to differentiate their work have most often been the inventors and creators of the tools they use.

To address this obstacle, we have developed a set of tools, that make use of and extend the popular Processing open-source multimedia programming environment.

Together they will enable artists without the skills of computer programming to significantly influence the content of their visual performance, while also keeping the programming of new graphics algorithms accessible to those seeking greater creative freedom.

Installation

Unzip “Mother 0.5 for Processing 1.0.7 – Windows.zip” or “Mother 0.5 for Processing 1.0.7 – OSX.zip” archive, depending on your platform.

In the folder “Foetus library” you will find Foetus.zip; extract this and put the extracted Foetus folder into the libraries folder of your processing sketches. Reference and examples are included in the Foetus folder.

For instructions on using Mother, read included “GETTING STARTED.TXT” file.

Tested

Platforms Windows, OSX
Processing 1.0.7

If you follow developments around VJ culture and Video Installation practises, Video Mapping practise has become a new Black with nearly everyone having a go at warping and mapping they video textures onto various objects in the space. Effective and brilliant approach. While some vj software have addressed this issue almost right away (eg vvvv, Module8) some other open source projects are taking initial steps in that direction.

Just came across this project called Keystone for Processing

Keystone is a video projection mapping library for Processing. Right now it allows you to warp your Processing sketches onto any flat surface by using corner pin keystoning, regardless of your projector’s position and orientation. The goal is to eventually expand this library to enable more advanced projection mapping, such as projecting on 3D models or curved surfaces and edge blending of multiple projector screens.

Download

Download keystone version 001 in .zip format.

Installation
Unzip and put the extracted keystone folder into the libraries folder of your processing sketches. Reference and examples are included in the keystone folder.

Keywords
projection mapping, corner pin keystoning

Reference.
Have a look at the javadoc reference here. a copy of the reference is included in the .zip as well.

Source. The source code of keystone is available at SourceForge, and its repository can be browsed here.
Examples

Find a list of examples in the current distribution of keystone, or have a look at them by following the links below.

* CornerPin
* CornerPinOpenGL

This is a very alpha release, which means the API could (and probably will) change in future releases. Please send feedback or feature requests!

Keystone for Processing from David Bouchard on Vimeo.

This field is evolving and growing quite rapidly which is a good thing. Combination of open source technologies provide us with opportunityand ideas to push evolving scene to a new heights.

Mother (For Processing):
http://www.onar3d.com

In the last few months I had come by application called Mother (Previously mentioned on CDM and vdmoKstati.com) which was developed by developer from London – Illias Bergstorm . His vision was to put together an approach which would allow Processing Visual synths (Processing sketches exported to .jar through Processing export) to be controlled via likes of Max or PureData.

Pure Data sits much nicer with me as its Open Source as it doesn’t ask for purchase as it does from Max. Much more widely acceptable for educational purposes and sharing.  Note: At present this application is Windows only, and yet I’m positive that this project would eventually  spread to all other platforms as it matures and grow.

So.. what’s next?
Setting up Process…ing Mother (Windows Only)

Ok, lets get started.  Do one of the following.  Download  Mother 0.4 - (Aprogram that allows VJing with Processing.org sketches) .  Save and Extract onto you hard drive.

Presuming that you were on windows , you should be nearly all set.

Depending which way you will be choosing to try this out two options are available, Max and PuraData, Pure Data is the one I’ll highlight right now.  Max version is self contained example, yet for further editing and manipulation, you’d need full working trial or professional version.

For Pure Data control, you should install the software from http://puredata.info/downloads .  If PureData sounds like your game, also add GEM libray provides crutial number of externals to deal with video objects, etc. http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/gem/releases/0.92.0 (Current Version at the time of writing)

Anyway, when you extract your zip file, the directory structure will look something like this:

We’ll have to do little editing to adjust the system to your own environment. Click on ‘Mother with Java‘ folder and open mother.ini file. Editing is straight forward, simply change the path for the directory where you have your Synths examples folder. eg. SynthFolder=C:\Mother0.4Synth examples;   and Save.  The other preferences are self explanatory.

Now we are ready to open Mother. Click Mother.exe
(Blank window will open flashing from White to Black… thats Normal..)

For those that might be confused by this at first, Mother is space where all the action takes place which is controlled by external applications – examples For Max and Pure Data are provided.  Read on…

Launching Controlling Systems:

[Pure Data]

While your Mother App is still running, go to the Pure Data Controller  folder in the Mother Directory(eg. C:Mother0.4PureData controller ) and launch Pure Data controller example.pd file.

Note: This will require Pure Data to be fully installed.

You should get something like this >

Click Individual Bar for Creation and Or Removal of your synths in Pure Data that will be sending out signals to Mother application screen.1. Click to Add the Gradient >> [Mother/Add_synth ss Gradient Grad_02]. Underneath it really should say 2. Click to add the Waltz file (yet it says Gradient.. Fix this up for yourself  “Ctrl +E” if you like).

So… what you think?

Very interesting way of interfacing between Pure Data and Processing creation mechanisms. I think there is a lot of potential there.  My personal explorations will follow.

Processing
There is an obvious interests among many to pursuit the ropes of Processing.org which has risen in popularity due to its open source approach and fairly streamlined learning curve for many. The ongoing Processingblogs.org happens to be one of the most amazing blogs going on in regards of everything Processing with a serious dash of talent coming through in that direction and brilliant examples of its applications and motion. You won’t have to go far to discover many amazing opportunities this multi platform multimedia can bring as community involvement is strong, tutorials and code available is readily shared by many and libraries are plenty.

ContextFree
With this in mind sometimes you may seek additional features which can come handy such as direct Rendering or recording of your sketches. In my recent search for something of this nature I came across- this software coding visual tool environment called ContextFree.

“Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.” While you can study numerous examples through its excellent Gallery, on top of that you may render your grammar into a full working motion clips which
are created with easy and to your preference. (* Note: I found ‘Animation’ to work best with Quicktime in Settings).

Fluxus 0.16
From piksel.no news blog. >> New Release: fluxus 0.16

And now for another Live Coding Visual tool: Fluxus!

Fluxus is a tool for rapid prototyping, livecoding and playing/learning environment for 3D graphics, sound and games. Extends PLT Scheme with graphical commands and can be used within it’s own livecoding environment or from within the DrScheme IDE.

“act of a flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing
stream; a continuous succession of changes”

Chunky new stuff with its new release:

* New truetype font primitive, with 3D extruding and poly conversion
* Perlin and Simplex noise functions
* Tiled framedump for rendering insane resolutions
* New example games, space invaders and missile command!
* Lots of fixes and improvements, particularly in fluxa – the synth server.
* A new fluxus manual:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/fluxus-documentation.pdf
* A new website:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus

It’s still best to be oldskool and build it from source:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/fluxus-0.16rc1.tar.gz

But there are a few more packages and OSX apps available nowadays:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/packages/

Well, that’s until Mother came to the scene. -A program that allows VJing with Processing.org sketches.

The lead developer Ilias Bergstrom has been working through developing this invaluable tool which in my opinion can launch Processing as source of visual performance to another level.
The current development version (Mother 0.3 in Development) has been announced just under a month ago and what now seemingly its coming to a near launch stage with followed up post from Ilias on Onar3d- Maria Louiza.

I will take some time in next few days to give much more detailed review of my personal experience, yet in the mean time, check out provided links for more info on the subject.