Magic Music Visuals

I just made some more tweaks to that shader. I've added a SAMPLES param to crop the size of the grid, and a CHUNKINESS param to scale the dot sizes. Along with the GAMMA, it should enable you to give it a LOT more presences.

Thought so. I hacked the controls into that and I'm happy to see it in the wild. :-) It was converted with the ShaderToy to ISF script, and is based on the ShaderToy "Interstellar" https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Xdl3D2 by TekF, a warp drive thing. I loved that the original coder based the ...

I like it!

Did you use the ISF LIDAR for the "Peace" text sequence?

Hey everyone, I was reorganizing my additional ISF folder this weekend and thought it might be useful for others – especially new users looking for more effects. They have been grabbed mostly from https://ShaderToy.com and https://InteractiveShaderFormat.com . I've converted a bunch of them and adde...

Found a fantastic free download today on a pack of FIRE FX videos. It cost me a signup to a mailing list, but it goes to the spam folder anyway.

They loop well. .MOV format, 1080p, pre-keyed.

http://www.rodypolis.com/free-pre-keyed ... otage.html

I like it! Small detail: In the beginning when the point of light in the iris is reacting to the music, you might want to overlay a radial gradient, or a lighter version of the image masked with a radial gradient which reacts in sync, to simulate the dispersion of the light in the lens. It would add...

I notice that nothing is toggled ON in the AudioToImage module. (Neither Waveform or Spectrum). Perhaps that's the glitch?

Debug HUD is a little clunky because values have to be updated in two places, but I'm looking forward to the upcoming global variables, which will fix that issue handily.

Very concise.

Something I like to do with this kind of setup is to add a GATE modifier at the top of the modifer stack, to hold the rotation and only have it respond to the peaks.

Nicely done. It has a lot of polish, especially the typography. I'm curious, was this all done in Magic, or did you use a video editor to put it together? One small thing, I noticed all the shout outs to the music apps at the start, but none for the visuals. It might be nice to see a nod to "Ma...

Thanks for sharing this. It's always interesting to see how an artist organizes their work. I was intrigued by the nested "build" scenes for the layering on the boxes. It's elegant. Also, the use of the Mirror transform keyed to the volume. It's a simple way to make it look like there's a ...

Fantastic! The tunes are awesome and the synching to the visuals is very tight.

Did you use MagicaVoxel http://ephtracy.github.io/index.html?page=mv_main for the models?

Nice! It's really polished. I appreciate the subtle variations on the theme. At one point I got a real "2001: A Space Odyssey" vibe. Like a cloud of Monoliths. I patched a 2001 Slit-Scan magic together a while back you might enjoy. It's well annotated, and only relies on a few additional s...

You can try searching for "fire" at these places: https://www.interactiveshaderformat.com/search# (ISF format) https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=fire (GLSL) format) The first link's files just need to be put in Magic's Modules folder, and then restart the program. You have two option...

The ANTIALIAS module works via multisampling, essentially rendering the input at twice the resolution, then scaling it back down to the target resolution. In effect, that means it's rendering 4X the number of pixels, PER INSTANCE. So, chaining 3 of them in a row means you're rendering the input with...

Yes, that will work.

Also, you could just use the SIN OSC(illator) modifier. It already is normalized to output from 0 to 1.

Thanks for the detailed reply Eric (and for blowing the bandwidth lol). I'd suspected that the codecs weren't tuned for graphics, but it's good to know that for sure.

Have a great weekend!

Do it enough, and it will be something you're good at.

This is fantastic. Nice use of the Video Heightfield shader. If you like that effect I've been doing a bunch of work adding interfaces and tweaking shaders from http://Shadertoy.com and porting them over to http://InteractiveShaderFormat.com . I recently did some extensive tweaks of Video Heightfiel...

Love the audio - very Michael Stearns. It totally brought "Baraka" to mind. The video and audio both are very chill, so you are achieving a good match. One thing I sometimes struggle with is to have a feeling of visual unity when mixing shaders in a project. Having disparate styles (e.g ge...

This is the latest piece I've been working on.. "The Astronaut's Dream." An astronaut lost in space dreams of falling through a black hole and is transformed by the experience. Animated and rendered completely within Magic Music Visuals. Music is "Modulation of the Spirit" by Lit...

That is a great suggestion. +1

Dang, I didn't even think of copyright on the modules. Mea culpa.

I think it's a great idea. There are two issues I can think of though – many works rely on third party modules or media that are not present in the base install, so there needs to be documentation of sources for those, or a way to upload those along with the project. There may also be licensing issu...

I have been messing with a new waveform generator. It takes AudioToImage as input. Essentially it's a bar spectrum with adjustable sampling up to 2560 bars, basic audio dynamic processing (Volume, Gain and Clip Floor) and adjustable bar spacing. Based on the shader "Simple Sound Visualizer"...

I'm not sure if this answers your question, but I was messing with skyboxes and came up with a template which takes 6 images, and makes a SKYBOX with simple camera controls. See annotations inside file for details.

Cheers!

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+1 to bump this. I find a lot of effects I want to create I could do with the Starfield module if there was a way to specify the XYZ dimensions of the emitter plane, without affecting the size of the stars. The Starfield module already can be rotated in XYZ, so it has a 3D structure, if that could b...

You're welcome. You'll find this is a pretty responsive community, and Eric, the programmer checks in pretty much every day. Have fun!

Cheers,
nik

Here's one way. Use an INPUT SELECTOR module and a combination of INCREASE and STEP modifiers. By using a DELAY, or a different INCREASE factor, you can adjust the timing.

Cheers,
nik

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Hey Terry,

Looks like someone's been making progress with a Trails Feedback ISF:

http://www.interactiveshaderformat.com/sketches/902

Thanks for the clarification Eric.

Screen Shot 2016-02-10 at 10.47.11 AM.png This is the answer to your second question, but the principle is the same for the first. You need to design a stack of modifiers to achieve your goal: The INCREASE can be considered the "Frames per second" as it is how much the value will increase...

I've been using Scenes to organize, reuse common elements and do some layered cross-fades in the playlist, but haven't used the SceneInput yet. That is genius. Thanks!

Ah, the old order of operations. Makes sense.

The Rotate Vector does the job done in a single dialogue, but isn't very intuitive, as noted.

I find I'm constantly adding three modules when using Rotate Axis. Not a big whup, just a little messy, but similar to Translate and Scale, would it make sense to include all 3 axes in the module as opposed to the dropdown selector? To be honest, I'm actually normally adding a Scale, Translate AND 3...

...and I love it when people respond in fashion.

LOL That was an extreme example, but I get your reasoning.

An expanding box sounds like a great way to deal with it.

Does it have to be "Expression"? Can you save some space by making it a label like: Ex, Exp, Fn, Fnc, Func? I can see the logic in aligning all the variable input fields, but the graphic designer in me wonders if that's strictly necessary given the amount of unused space. I've quickly mock...

That's good to know about the render to movie. I was watching the FPS counter jump around wildly, and assumed that was what the output was going to reflect. The more I play with this app, the more I appreciate how well programmed and thought out it is – if I go to look for a feature, or get concerne...

Thanks Terry! I literally just got back from a conversation at the cafe about how impossible it is to ever actually get decent critical feedback on artwork. I appreciate you proving me wrong. :-) I hear you on the reflections. Part of the problem I was having is that my rig isn't all that beefy (201...

My first full visualization piece. The tune is "Golden" by LITTLE GLASS MEN, available on http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/ Visuals are a combination of procedural, audio reactive and hand-painted elements, and uses two ISF modules "Black Cherry Cosmos" and &quo...

I can answer your second question. Check out this section on Audio Modifiers in the user manual: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads/Magic_UsersGuide.html#AudioModifiers Specifically, in your case, you'll want to add a SCALE modifier. The sin oscillator runs from 0 to 1, so if you need it to be ...

Thank-you Eric.

You're going to have a tough time finding a really decent HD projector at that price point. This is the projector I ended up getting for around $600 CAD. Which felt like a good compromise between features and price. http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Product.do?sku=V11H764020 Do keep looking tho...

BINGO!

Funny thing is, I opened that in Photoshop and checked the number of channels, only saw 3, and assumed it was good, missing that the image wasn't flattened. Nice sleuthing.

Happy to fix that as I go. Thank-you.

Hey Eric, Seems I can't add .ZIP files, so here's a WeTransfer link to the .OBJ and associated .MTL file: http://we.tl/qfuuFpFJiu It's one of the example files included with the software. Here's a screenshot showing the file in MagicaVoxel, and imported to Magic: Screen Shot 2016-01-25 at 11.33.05 A...

I had some luck running the .OBJ through MESHLAB, but like you, the best I could do was convert the texture colours to vertex colour and it shows smooth shading across the tri's. It's interesting, because just importing the .OBJ file comes in with the colours showing the correct, square, hard-edged ...

I was playing with MagicaVoxel on OS X just this weekend.

Have you managed to get the .OBJ files to import with their correct colours? The geometry came in fine, but the colours were all messed up.

Thank-you for taking the time to look into this Eric. Ah, when standards aren't actually, eh? I guess it's a little inelegant, but the third option is probably the one that would satisfy the largest number of users with the minimum amount of user effort. Also, it's the only option that gives a user ...

@Sadler When you say it works, is it scrolling into the screen (Z) or across it (XY)?

I also noticed a number of ISF files that run fine on the website http://www.interactiveshaderformat.com/ on my hardware also don't run in Magic, or exhibit strange behaviour. GreatBallsofFire ( http://www.interactiveshaderformat.com/sketches/822 ) and BlackCherryCosmos ( http://www.interactiveshade...

Updated with Offsets for X & Y (Origin is UL)

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I love the Droste effect Terry used in his submission. I am NOT a coder, but I tinkered with the .fs file to turn the Branches and Scale constants into sliders with a range of -100.0 to 100.0 and to take image input. Some of you may find it useful. At most values, there's a rhythmic "pumping&qu...

That makes sense. Thanks.

Interesting. I didn't realize you could pass values to the oscillators, and had assumed that the TRI and SIN were simply dictated by their parameter value. In that case, is it correct to assume that having a version of SIN and TRI to which you pass just an offset would still let you control the spee...

Would it make sense to have a separate modifier called "Phase Offset"? So if it was in the stack it would be applied to any oscillator below it in the stack? That way if you added any additional OSC modifiers down the road it would also apply.

I'm posting a .magic file to illustrate the issue. When it starts, or when you re-sync, you can see that each bar has to wait for the delay to kick in. With an offset, it would animate correctly from frame 1. I think this is a good example of a similar "delay" issue raised in this post: ht...

Would it be possible to add a phase offset from 0-1 on the oscillators? 0 would be no offset, and 1 would be a full cycle offset. I ran into issues when trying to use Sine Osc to create an animated wave of several polygons, each using a Delay to offset each polygon's point in the cycle of the sine w...

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