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For this blender experiment I used a simple bands texture in a cycles material as a displacement texture. I used the generated texture coordinates for the sphere and modified it by using a vector curve node. Unfortunately cycles renders some wired circular noisy displacement on the poles of the object when I render it on my GPU - I'm not quite sure why this happens yet.

you can download the blend file here

This is my first volca+streichfett jam this year - recorded and mixed using bitwig-studio

for this animation I wanted some glowing panels to light up in a random order. So I created a particle set and used the particle index and compared it to the current frame index using a "less than" Node. Based on that comparison I switch between a diffuse- and an emmision-Shader by using the result of the comparison as the mix factor.

you can download the blend file here

I recorded a new synth track using only the polysynth plugin from bitwig. Everything on this track - including the drum sounds - was created using the polysynth + a few onboard effects.

For this animation I made a ico-sphere follow a circular path while emitting particles. The particles have gravity removed from the field weight and use no velocity vector. The only reason they move is a turbulence forcefield with a curl factor of 1

you can download the blend file here

I haven't used the animation nodes addon in a while - so I dug it up and created a new animation with it. It took me a while to get it running on my box due to python installation absurdities but I finally got an 1.6 up and running in my blender 2.78 installation. For this animation I used an empty list of vectors and filled it with random vectors generated by a vector-wiggle-node. I then used these vectors to create curves. Since I wanted to create a knot I used a second loop that creates several of these splines and adds them into a spline list. This spline-list is then added to a new object and rendered.

you can download the blend file here

I saw a hudini video tutorial a few weeks ago that shows how to use a noise field to create particle trails that look like electronic schematics. I really liked the effect and recreated it using a small processing script. To create the effect I set up some particles, that use a noisefield to influence their velocity. Before the velocity is added to the particles potion the vector is normalized and then each component is converted to an integer value - this limits the values to the x and y component to -1,0 and 1. The resulting vector is then scaled to the original length of the vector and added to the position of the particles.

click here to start the sketch or download the sourcecode.

For this animation I created a particle simulation with fluid particles emitted from an icosphere. The particles are emitted along the y-axis and hit a forcefield, with the flow parameter set to 0.1. I used the cubesurfer addon by pytoevil to create a mesh from the particles.

you can download the blend file here

I used the blender explode modifier to move the vertices of an icosphere in a turbulence forcefield in blender. The particles that move the vertices are form the same icosphere that acts as the emitter of the particles. If you do that make sure the particle system is the first modifier in the stack and that "use modifier stack" in the particle settings is NOT ticked. Otherwise this leads to pretty wired behaviour and probably a blender crash.

The forcefield has an increased flow parameter as with all my flow experiments.

To make the shards look like 3D objects instead of thin paperlike triangles I used the solidify modifier to give them a little bit of depth.

you can download the blend file here

For this animation I combined a vortex forcefield and a turbulence force field. As with all my latest particle experiments I increased the flow parameter of the turbulence forcefield. The particles are emitted by the faces of an icosphere.

you can download the blend file here