OT: Fantastic animation project!

[gunug]

Magnetosphere by Robert Hodgin. Audio by Trentemoller:

http://www.flight404.com/_videos/magnetosphere/index.html

This is a Quicktime file and loads and runs pretty fast on my G4 and PC.  The only thing I don't like about it how short it is.  I would pay to see a hour or so of this in a movie theatre (could you imagine this on an iMAX screen).  He has another page that tells about how he did this a little bit:

http://www.flight404.com/blog/

[Mrious_be]

Very very very very very beautiful  

 

[jcarter]

Thats really beautiful!   Thanks for the link.  
How do they make such pretty things?

"http://processing.org"

Or how do they make the animation thing that we have in our iTunes too?
Fun stuff.
Jane

[gunug]

Jane - I followed some of the links on the blog and found this guy in Germany named Benedikt Groß who also had some interesting stuff:

http://www.looksgood.de/log/2007/02/03/seelenlose-automaten/

I had a friend in college in the 1970's (before there was widespread computer availability) who recorded chess games in a musical notation and made music with it for the mandolin.

[jcarter]

These guys must be brilliant.
Long ago we had a huge old oscilloscope on the ship I worked on once in a while, and we would hook the stereo up to it, and the picture would gyrate in time with the music.  That was fun, we could make some really pretty stuff.  Then the guy I worked for, caught us, and we got a lonnnnnggggg lecture, "that expensive equipment is not to be used for music". So that was that.
Somewhere I have pictures of this.
Jane

[gunug]

What you could've been looking at on the O'Scope were "Lissajous Figures" usually used to show the characteristics of the sound or other wave being viewed.  I somehow managed to blow the time base on my O'scope here at the house using it to look at soundwave from a radio station.  I can still see something on the scope but everything is just a vertical line; not very imformative!  

[jcarter]

Oh, maybe thats why he didnt want us to use the scientific equipment for play.
I didnt realize that we could have messed it up, this was about 40 years ago.
All the equipment on that research ship was so much FUN to use, and when the ocean got too rough for some things to be done, then we got bored on watch, and got rather 'creative'.
Those days were a blast!
Jane