Mandelbulb Shader

Some months ago there was this article about a 3D fractal. Unlike the Quaternion Julia Set which is a 3D projection of a 4D fractal, this appears to be in real 3D space. Shortly after, there were some implementations of it on the GPU. One of it was the GLSL implementation from Inigo Quilez in his shader toy. I made a HLSL port of it for vvvv. You can download it shortly from the 'Contributions' section of our new website at vvvv.org.

Console Widget

As I couldn't find a working solution to create a console window in a .NET application and display the Console.Write() calls in it, I created a little sourceforge project. Its written in C# and contains a Winforms UserControl to place it in your GUI and a Form to use it as a standalone window. It will route all text your application writes to the System.Console or the System.Diagnostics.Debug output to your GUI.

sourceforge.net/projects/consolewidget

Praxis Berlin Opening

Believe it, the vvvv developers got a new headquarter in Berlin. Its newer, bigger and healthier than the former one. In fact, its the group practice for software developement and graphical matters. The grand opening is at june 20th. A dedicated website is waiting for you here: http://praxisberlin.net

Tonfilm live set with piano and drums

This was a small gig in my old hometown at a friends party. I am glad to had Jens Otzen (Piano) and Gabriel Schütz (Drums) as guests. We played 5 tracks from the b-film node08 liveset. Here is a selection of 3:

vvvv40beta16 release with plugin interface

The latest vvvv version offers developers an interface to write their own nodes for vvvv. A plugin is basically a .dll file, that can be drag&dropped into a vvvv patch where it appears as a node. If its stored in vvvv's plugins directory, its even available in the node list.
Currently value, color, matrix transform and string in/out pins are supported. Note that a plugin can also create a window. In theory one could write an openGL renderer with it...
We have prepared some simple templates to start from. Here is how to do it. The code can be browsed on sourceforge.

NODE08 live set

As our live set at the node08 vvvvinissage was ended by firealarm (maybe someone understood the turkish text of the piece we played right before?), here is a full length version recorded some days before:

Screenshot Collection

vvvv has this infamous ctrl+3 feature, to send screenshots directly to the vvvv wiki, where they appear in the site header. Some days ago I looked thru the gallery and collected all screenshots I could remember to be mine. Click here to see the huge page with all pictures. The page has some headlines, which are short technical descriptions of the method used to create the particular image. They are listed above the images as liks, to jump directly to the image positions.

Isosurface Raytracing Shader

This little exercise uses Keenan Crane's rayracing algorithm from the quaternion julia set to render isosurfaces on the GPU. You can download the shader here. Here is a video from Paul Bourke's The Blob surface:

Sanch VJ Set On 4 Screens

After Bruxelles sanch invited me to lille, where he made a VJ set on 4 screens with 4 times 1024x768 output in 60fps.

VVVVorkshop Bruxelles

During the week from the 27th march gregsn and me held a vvvv workshop in bruxelles for the students of transmedians.

we also enjoyed our stay there. as you can see here, where gregsn played chess against boris from transmedians and me against a guy from the NATO, who invited us to some beers.