BSharp wrote:
Just gotta comment on Steve's latest layers of visual and sonic effects:
WISH LIST
- More striking visual sync to the music, maybe geared to Railboard bass instead of electronic drums, or maybe just to the downbeat?
- A live drummer phrasing and battling away in solo mode with divisions and spaces?
- Final emerging Mandelbrotion walrus with embryonic potential. Has a personality, needs a face.
Love the wiry, funky Stick bass - as is.
Thanks, Emmett! Yes, the drums are fairly boring and the wrong thing to sync the fractals to. They were basically a metronome for the Stickist Collab, and the Railboard is a better instrument to track. In fact, for really optimum effects, I'd want to write a bass line and an opening that would lend itself well to being synced to, instead of writing the music in isolation.
I'll keep playing with it, and I need to write a short minute and a half Stick piece with audio syncing in mind. Maybe a rthymic bass riff that pulsed around as a flourish occasionally. Or maybe just animate the chorus for optimal effect.
As for a live drummer, my son Xavier (13) is becoming quite the drummer. He plays jazz band and orchestra percussion and he's getting to be a monster on the trap set. I should start using him for videos!
Anyway, the audio sync fractals hold more promise to explore. But the keyframes from this animation came out really well with a brand-new technique for Mandelbulber, called "Monte Carlo global Illumination," which combines raytracing with a Monte Carlo point-by-pixel to examine where all the reflected light rays are in a scene and add them together. Each image takes 2-4 hours to render but the results are spectacular.
There's almost 30 images here, from the 64 keyframes of the video.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... dadfdeb32cSome scenes:
https://i.imgur.com/5puG9Qn.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/PA6znbo.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Y4mw3vd.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/9Fuc4Ww.jpgThanks, Emmett!