Glenn Marshall’s Generative Video Apps For iPad To Support Video Output

Generative visual artist Glenn Marshall has announced that he’s bringing his piece Metamorphosis to the Apple iPad.

Metamorphosis has proved more popular than anything else I’ve done.  It’s been my ‘big hit’. I often contemplate this.  Maybe because it’s not ‘too’ abstract, the eternal symbolism of the Butterfly, coupled with a generative animation concept that mirrors the cycle of life and death, and the potent atmosphere from the Boards of Canada soundtrack.

He also mentions that he’s adding video output support to all his iPad apps:

all my generative apps for iPad (Eyegasm, Supernova) are getting updated for VGA projection, with added speed & color settings.  I’m also updating Zio at the minute for iOS 4 – which will also have VGA support!

This is a welcome move. Marshall’s generative visuals seem like a natural complement to synthesized sounds. Used with a projector, this could provide interesting background visuals or input for VJ remixing.

Eyegasm Supplies The Visuals, You Supply The Eargasm

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Generative visualist Glenn Marshall has announced Eyegasm (App Store link) – a gorgeous new ambient visualization app for the iPad.

It’s essentially a version of Zio, but without the menus and configurability options (p.s. you can still run Zio in ‘upscaled’ mode on the iPad too of course).

Eyegasm however is HD – and takes full advantage of the hi res screen on the iPad.

We’d like to see Marshall release an iPad visualizer that’s an expanded version of Zio, vs a stripped down version, But in the meantime, $1.99 is pretty cheap for an Eyegasm.

Description:

Eyegasm functions much like a lava lamp, or an aquarium – add a soothing, animated visual experience to your room, heart and mind. Beautiful, endlessly generating organic visuals take full advantage of the iPad’s amazing screen resolution and graphical capabilities. Use pinch and touch gestures to freely move, zoom and rotate.

Download This Amazing Free iPhone App – And Have An Eyegasm

If you have an iPhone, go download Glenn Marshall’s free psychedelic video app, Zio (App Store link) now.

Zio is an interactive generative visualizer from computer animator and software designer Glenn Marshall that creates psychedelic, sensual visuals that react to ambient audio and to your actions:

  • Use drag and pinch to pan, move and rotate through space.
  • Pause / play, save snaphots to your photo library.
  • Switch on audio reactive visuals (for devices with mic only).
  • Comes with 3 unique preset Zio worlds.
  • Shake to shuffle between presets.

Download Zio, crank up some music, interact with a bit and you’ll start to see how deep the app is. Continue reading

iPhone Psychedelia With Zio

This is the latest sneak preview for Glenn Marshall‘s Zio – an interactive generative psychedelic visualizer:

Presently you can change most of the branching and shading and can easily navigate with dragging/pinch zoom and rotate.  You can pause the animation at any time and still interact/move around, and also save pictures to your photo library.

The interface is just a temporary one at the minute for testing, it will be redesigned and probably have twice as much features seen in the demo – including particle motion and trails and the ability to tweak the underlying math and algorithms.

This demo is a screen cap of the iPhone simulator – at times the frame-rate is jerky – but actually runs okay on the real device! (don’t know why that should be).

Zio is still in developement and Marshall is looking into various options for letting the iPhone access audio, so that the visuals may be able to react to music.

If Marshall can get this right, though, Zio could be one of the coolest apps yet for the iPhone.

Sneak Preview Of Amazing iPhone Music Visualization App

This is a teaser trailer for Glenn Marshall‘s iPhone music visualization application, Zio.

Marshall is known to Synthtopia readers for his amazing generative music videos. Continue reading

This Is The Most Beautiful Music Video You’ll See For A Long Time

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Glenn Marshall – The Nest That Sailed The Sky, Computer-generated Visualisation 2009

Glenn Marshall does something that few video artists do – he makes abstract videos, based on generative processes, that are full of beauty and wonder.

His work is almost a visual analogy to Brian Eno’s work with generative music.

This is his video for Peter Gabriel’s The Nest That Sailed The Sky.

Details on Marshall’s video below. Continue reading

G-Synth Graphic Synthesiser Demo

First demo video of computer artist Glenn Marshall’s ‘graphic synthesiser’, or the G-synth, as it’s now called:

This is  a culmination of a years self-teaching and exploration of programming using the Processing language.

It’s a tool and instrument for myself as a digital artist, which will hopefully keep my work fresh and innovative, and inspire others to teach themselves programming to build their own artistic technology.

Details at Glenn Marshall’s site.

Gorgeous Abstract Music Video For Peter Gabriel’s The Nest That Sailed The Sky

This is a music video by Glenn Marshall for Peter Gabriel’s The Nest That Sailed The Sky.

“I was asked to develop the ’story’ further, and got some visual ideas from looking through photos from the original OVO album shoot,” says Marshall. “I got three extra visual ideas from this – single cells, an empty nest, trails of red berries.”

Marshall’s work is very abstract but is also very sensual in its use of shapes and color. You can see more of his work at his Vimeo site.

Let me know what you think!

Processing Audio/Visual App Now 1.0

Version 1.0 of Processing, an application for creating audio and visual work, has launched.

Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing quickly developed into a tool for creating finished professional work as well. 

Processing is a free, open source alternative to proprietary software tools with expensive licenses, making it accessible to schools and individual students. Its open source status encourages the community participation and collaboration that is vital to Processing’s growth. Contributors share programs, contribute code, answer questions in the discussion forum, and build libraries to extend the possibilities of the software. The Processing community has written over seventy libraries to facilitate computer vision, data visualization, music, networking, and electronics.

I’ve included an example of a music video created with Processing above, Glenn Marshall’s video for Radiohead’s Bodysnatching

Processing is a free download, for Linux, OS X and Windows.  Continue reading