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I've been playing with the cubesurfer addon by pyroevil this weekend. This addon creates meshes from the surface of particle systems, for example to create fluid simulations.

This animation is my first cubesurfer experiment. I used a simple particle system with fluid particles and an isosurface to create a mesh from the particles

you can download the blend file here

I wrote a new short processing sketch today. Click on the screenshot to watch the rotating spiral

I dreamt about this flower a lot of times lately and in my dreams I spent countless hours of drawing it. I finally managed to do it in real life too - hopefully the dreams stop now ...

For this animation I played with the fracture modifier test build again and added a boolean modifier after the fracturing. This creates an quite interesting effect, because the layers that are created by the boolean operator stay fixed while the fracture shards that happen before the boolean operation slide around.

you can download the blend file here

To run it you need a blender testbuild containing the fracure modifier

I wrote a new short processing sketch today. Click on the screenshot to explore the ellipse parameter space

A video of a short live jam using the volca sample

I wrote a new short processing sketch today. Click on the screenshot to explore the rectangle parameter space

For this animation I used a hair particle system and a vortex force field

you can download the blend file here

Korg released a SDK for the Volca Sample in november 2014. The SDK contains a bunch of libraries and header files to develop tools that comunicate with a Volca Sample. Besides all that it also contains an example program compiled for linux, macos and windows that can be used to upload samples to the Volca on the commandline.

Convert the sample you want to upload to a stereo, 16 bit, 31.25 kHz WAV-file using the sample editor of your choice (or convert it using sox)

download the volca sdk from their github repository (click on the source tab)

unzip the package and go to the example folder in the volca sdk. Enter the directory for your operating system (linux in my case)

now you can use the makesyro_gnulinux.sh script to convert the audio file and choose the slot on the Volca Sample

makesyro_gnulinux.sh -n 99 test.wav

connect the output of your soundcard to the sync-in socket of your Volca and start playing back the syro_stream.wav

the linux shell script also has an option to start the playback automatically

on macos or windows the provided scripts are a little less versatile that the linux version to change the sample or the slot to upload you have to edit the script and change the values in the header section of the file.

The first track with my new volca sample, recorded and mixed with bitwig studio