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A song starting as a simple arpeggio slowly evolving into a tune

Recorded and Mixed in Bitwig Studio drums are from a volca beats and sample, pads from streichfett and blofeld. The synth sound are from bitwigs polysynth and a 0-Coast

For this animation node experiment i created the dual mesh of an ico sphere by connecting the face centers and animated it using a displacement modifier

you can download the blend file here

For this Animation Nodes experiment I replaced all vertices of a torus knot mesh with litte spheres. The base mesh was generated using the "Extra Objects" addon in blender.

I created a list of animated floats for the scale of the spheres to animate the size of the spheres.

you can download the blend file here

For this animation nodes experiment I made some cubes hover above the surface of a sphere by normalizing the position vector

you can download the blend file here

For this AnimationNode experiment I made growing vines out of vertices using random 2d noise patterns. I used a grid mesh to generate the inital vertices and iterate over the list of vertices in the mesh using a loop. Then I used a second loop to generate the spline for each vertex.

The number of vertices in each spline is controlled by the framerate and each vertex is moved by a random amount along the x- and y-axis.

The node setup is a bit too complicated for a screenshot but you can download the blend file here

For this animation nodes experiment I created a group of spheres and calculated their sizes so that they touch but never overlap. I iterated over the list of positions and calculated the distances to all other spheres using a Vector Distance Node. Then I sorted the list of distances and took the second entry to get the minimal distance to a different node (the first entry is always zero - its the distance of the current sphere to it self). The sphere is then scaled to half of the minimum distance to make sure no spheres overlap

The spheres are moved using a Vector Wiggle node

you can download the blend file here

For this AnimationNodes experiment I played with the new L-System node that comes in version 2.1. The L-System shown in this animation was generated by the instruction

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And here is the nodesetup I used

If you have no idea what I'm talking about Jacques Lucke has some very cool introduction videos to the L-System nodes on his youtube channel

you can download the blend file here

For this animation node experiment I used the Vector Noise node to create displacements of the mesh vertices of a icosphere along their normal vector. This creates a similar effect to using the displacement modifier with a noise texture, but you could use any node setup instead of the simple noise I used to create crazy complex animated displacements.

you can download the blend file here

I printed a 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluol molecule - better known by its abbrevation TNT - on my 3D printer this weekend. I constructed a tetraedic and a hexagonal basic shape using openscad and printed the atoms in different colors. I originally intended to connect the atoms using double sided tape but the molecule got pretty unstable and fell apart spontaneously. So I used some hotglue to glue the atoms together.

Oh and sorry for the clickbait title - I couldn't resist :-)

I made a group of concentric spirals along a circle and modified their rotation phase and radius

you can download the blend file here