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Trentemøller and me

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I stuck Trentemøller in the same room as Magnetosphere and they made a beautiful 4 minute long movie. Links at the end of this post.

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As you might have noticed, I have been getting acquainted to additive blending, courtesy of OpenGL. It really fills the space with light. I was a bit worried that I would get addicted to it like I did the Photoshop lens-flare back in the late 90s, but here is why this is different from that.

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The first time I tried to render a bunch of semi-transparent objects in a 3D space, I ran into a problem that I had not considered. Rendering with OpenGL and transparency requires that you render the far stuff first and the near stuff last. If you just render the objects in the order you made them (which is often the case with me and my addiction to ArrayLists), you will end up with odd inconsistencies with the transparencies. And unless you want to get involved with the headache of z-axis sorting, you would do what I usually do. Give up.

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The beauty of additive blending, or so is my understanding, and here I will extend this sentence into a horribly long run-on by saying I am no OpenGL master in any sense of the word… no… more I am a beginner who is getting a lot of use out of a few lines of code that I read a short tutorial about or saw in use, etc… so there might be an easier way to deal with the z-sorting issue but I choose to assume for now that this is the best way to go about it because just LOOK at the results!!! spacer So, as I was saying, the beauty is that I no longer have to worry about z-sorting. The additive blending bit handles all the z-axis headaches and gets me additive blending as a bonus! Sweet light!

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Another thing I am starting to implement here is something that came about as a side effect from the video about using the Lemur. I was filming my laptop monitor with a Canon powershot and I didnt have the laptop monitor tilted to an angle perpendicular to the camera’s line of sight. It was tilted away a bit and it ended up adding a nice subtle gradient to the background fill which seemed to help the overall look of the piece.

So, what I ended up doing was rendering to LARGE gradient orbs in the background centered offscreen but extending into the screen. Their position rotates in the opposite direction as the camera’s rotation in the space. It seems to add quite a bit of depth and atmosphere.

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Click here to view the quicktime version (92 Megs) or you can view the Dailymotion version below.


Magnetosphere: Audio by Trentemoller
Uploaded by flight404

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52 Responses to “Trentemøller and me”

  1. vade Says:
    February 27th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

    Yes, additive blend mode (6 1) is very very nice. I use it quite often. Its the shit. This stuff is looking lovely, really lovely.

  2. hugues Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 12:36 am

    Wow ! …. You have to stop … spacer

    question on the side: Are you using Sonia, ESS, or OpenAL ?

  3. flight404 Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 1:23 am

    I use Sonia for this stuff. I used ESS for a while when jSyn took their time making an intel Mac supported plugin, but everybody seems to be up to date, so back to Sonia I go. Its the one I am most familiar with. I might eventually look into OpenAL, but I am having enough of a hard time getting along with OpenGL… AL is going to have to wait.

  4. Andreas Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 9:52 am

    I am overwhelmed, this looks fantastic.
    I fear it won’t be long until some big advertising company will want this for their next campaign (generative graphics are gaining ground in industry, see the recent Audi clip here stashmedia.tv/feed/audi60.mov).

    How do you make the particle trails?

  5. majman Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 11:17 am

    This is really beautiful. If you were to make some wallpaper size screen shots of these – I bet they would adorn many a desktop (hint hint)

  6. Manuel Dahm Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    Hi there,

    wow you got me all impressed with this one. Looks tremendous sensible and has a huge portion of magic to it. Youre the new Ribbon-God for my part I’d say.
    One question: youre saying you were filming your laptopscreen with your cam – is that saying that all the rendering is 100% live? You code directly in OpenGL I assume?

  7. refect.intern » Blog Archive » Magnetosphere Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

    [...] work makes heavy use of alpha blending in OpenGL,  he captured a video as well! You must be logged in to post a comment. Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS). newpost [...]

  8. andre Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    one of the most beautiful music visualization i have ever seen!!!!!

  9. flight404 Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    Andreas: Great clip and good point. Its rare for advertising clients to venture into the obscure realm of eye-candy to sell product, but I applaud it. Any idea why it didnt resolve into the Audi logo? I would have had no idea what brand it was without seeing the URL. The particle trails are fairly simple. I keep track of each particle’s last 15 to 25 x,y, and z positions and span them with a QUAD_STRIP. To make it even more organic, I add a percentage of each position’s x,y, and z velocity to those trail points to make them drift a bit.

    Majman: Let me work on that. In the meantime, check my flickr page for some that I made already.

    Manuel: Thanks for the kind words. Its true, I have been filming a projection for a lot of these videos, but this one is an actual render in that I am saving a image for each frame i show and piecing those images together in Quicktime and pasting back in the audio. I should probably blog that process as well because I get a lot of questions about it. So this one is not live. But, it was developed as a live project… the live version runs smoothly with about 150 particles but for this render, I cranked it up to 500 particles so it ended up dropping to about 2 to 5 frames per second.

    andre: Thanks! I am really really happy with how it turned out. So much more to try!

  10. yittercast » WE: Trentemoller - Miss You Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    [...] this is not a music video. processing grows up and sexy [...]

  11. skimmas Says:
    March 1st, 2007 at 6:30 am

    Great piece! congratulations

  12. Blogimmas » Flight 404 Says:
    March 1st, 2007 at 6:52 am

    [...] Mais informação sobre o autor e como este video foi feito em: www.flight404.com/blog/?p=52 Video em grande (91 MB) www.flight404.com/_videos/magnetosphere/index.html [...]

  13. Tim Says:
    March 1st, 2007 at 9:29 am

    I don’t have much to add to the other comments, but really, really nice. I think it is so great to see a work made in processing, that doesn’t look like it was made in processing, and all without a single keyframe.

    Maybe its true, the post render age is approaching.

  14. michael Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 11:14 am

    “Trentemøller and me” – the video doesn’t seem to be available today.
    Btw I found the video because it was mentioned here:
    www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/ehrensenf/0,1518,470108,00.html

  15. flight404 Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    The video problem is temporarily fixed, but I have added a Vimeo version as well for times when there is an unexpected problem with the Quicktimes.

  16. reinhard Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    Is it possible to dowload your viceo ?

  17. marcus Says:
    March 6th, 2007 at 5:40 pm

    … sooooo beautiful …. PLEASE make a iTuns Visual PlugIn from this – would be so great to have it with any music at home spacer

  18. Martin Ramsch Says:
    March 7th, 2007 at 6:48 am

    Hi,

    it’s a very beautiful video with touching music – thanks a lot for sharing!
    As I’d love to also enjoy the full sized version, could you maybe use BitTorrent for sharing? Then your own bandwidth isn’t stressed at all! You just have to give the full version to anyone who’d like to start the first seed …(or start it yourself).

    Ciao,
    Martin

  19. haukowitsch Says:
    March 8th, 2007 at 3:54 pm

    I also LOVE the video. It’s fantastic!
    Sharing the full sized version via BitTorrent sounds also good to me. How about seeding it and then put the torrent-link on this blog?
    best wishes,
    haukowitsch

  20. Lost ctrl blog » Magnetosphere by Robert Hodgin. Audio by Trentemoller Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    [...] Magnetosphere es una maravilla visual y sonora creada por Robert Hodgin (Video) y Trentemoller (Audio) [...]

  21. Kurt Says:
    March 12th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    Really beautiful!
    From hwo is the music?

  22. deuther Says:
    March 12th, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    wer ist trentem/oller?

  23. today and tomorrow » Blog Archive » Magnetosphere Says:
    March 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    [...] This is still from a movie by Robert Hodgin (a.k.a. flight404). It’s programmed with processing and it really shows the power of it, remember the Audi TT movie. AMAZING! music by Trentemøller animation, art, music, processing, programming, video [...]

  24. Robert Templa Says:
    March 14th, 2007 at 9:27 am

    great video and song. i love exact synchronisation, congratulations! please, watch my video:
    www.myspace.com/roberttempla , … i’m the musician and the video is from space4all.

    greetz from berlin

    www.myspace.com/roberttempla
    www.b-ashra.de
    www.gl-audio.de

  25. Llámame Lola » Artículo » Magnetosphere by Robert Hodgin Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    [...] Pese a que ya ha sido referenciada por muchas páginas no podíamos dejar escapar este trabajo. Magnetosphere es una animación creada por Robert Hodgin de Flight404 ambientada con música del productor y DJ, Trentemoller. El video está realizado con Processing, un lenguaje de código abierto para la programación de imágenes, ví­deos, animaciones y sonido. [...]

  26. Flight 404 « wszystko co najciekawsze Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    [...] Flight 404 Trentemoller strikes again [...]

  27. Micha Says:
    March 20th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    Really great piece of art. Also shared it in some Fora where I post regularly and on my own blog.

    Really really great-. *thumbs up*

  28. Aslo Says:
    March 20th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    is there any way that we can download this? I would love to show this to my mates who don’t have the net..

  29. sword Says:
    March 21st, 2007 at 5:18 am

    can i down load the files

  30. Micha Says:
    March 21st, 2007 at 6:52 am

    a look into the source of the site whispered me…

    s3.amazonaws.com/flight404/trentemollerLarge.mov

  31. Murr Says:
    March 24th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

    would like to see this on a theatre screen…wow

  32. D_forma::::cölec1vo_de cr3acióN c0nteMpºränea:::: » Trentemøller and me Says:
    March 31st, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    [...] [...]

  33. George Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Beautiful! Is there any chance that this might some day be available as an iTunes visualizer module? Again, stunningly beautiful!

  34. Freshpilot - Coolest audio-visualization ever? Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    [...] Mmm, generative graphics. Magnetosphere is an audio visualization-themed music video of a song by Trentemoller by Robert Hodgin. You just have to watch this – the visualizers in iTunes suddenly have a very 2006-feel to them. [...]

  35. 域名主机 Says:
    April 2nd, 2007 at 3:41 am

    good

  36. regarde : le blog des tendances et des curiosites creatives! Art numerique, installations interactives, design hypermedia, game art, machinimas, sexe et jeux vidéo » Blog Archive » Audioresponsive Magnetosphere Says:
    April 2nd, 2007 at 8:56 am

    [...] Actuellement à l’affiche de toute la blogosphère française, Robert Hodgin (aka Flight404), n’en fini plus d’épater les internautes. Sa « magnetosphere », développée depuis plusieurs mois, est une application en temps réel qui réagit aux sons et pioche allégrement dans les fonctions OpenGL de Processing. Véritable outil de VJing, elle permet de générer de la 3D pleines de particules et d’ « additive blending » (technique de transparence qui permet aussi de créer du « glow ») en rythme avec la musique. Techniquement irréprochable, le programme gère en dynamique des magnétismes et des champs de gravités à couper le souffle… Plusieurs rendus vidéos sont disponibles sur le site de l’artiste / programmeur (avec plusieurs musiques donc), mais c’est bien sûre la dernière performance avec le DJ Trentemoller qui est la plus impressionnante. Et pour cause, Hodgin a ici exporté les images frames par frames en gonflant le nombre de particule et en a sorti cette vidéo (haute résolution) que vous trouverez dans la suite en streaming. Cette dernière version n’est donc pas en temps réel, mais l’application reste un projet « live » qui tourne de manière tout à fait fluide jusqu’à 150 particules. Et parce que j’en ai assez de lire tout un tas de conneries sur Processing, je finirai par dire que un environnement ET un langage de programmation open source dédiés aux créatifs qui souhaitent générer des images, des animations ou du son par le code. C’est à la fois un outil d’apprentissage des fondamentaux de la programmation, une alternative à des logiciels payants comme Flash et Max/Msp, et un merveilleux jouet pour tous les passionnés de l’art numérique et du « generative art ». [...]

  37. mirá! » Archivo » Magnetosphere Says:
    April 2nd, 2007 at 10:11 am

    [...] Trentemoller Leer más AutorJulián Gallo » Permalink» Menéame» Del.icio.us       Comentá!       [...]

  38. Cristian Says:
    April 2nd, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    No entendi mucho de que se trata, solo te digo que esta muy bueno. Solamente lo cagaste con los movimientos de camara

  39. » The miracle of light GadgetRoad - Daily Gadget News Says:
    April 2nd, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    [...] Robert claims on his blog that he’s a beginner in computer programming, especially OpenGL. He’s just being modest, if you ask me… Just look at this videos, the Supernova and the Magnetosphere. As i said before, the High Quality version of this clips are really breath taking. [...]

  40. mateja Says:
    April 2nd, 2007 at 8:34 pm

    Uau, u should do it more….. It is beautifull…
    Greatings from Slovenia

  41. Magnetosphere meets Trentemoller - Ubersuper Says:
    April 3rd, 2007 at 4:35 am

    [...] Magnetosphere meets Trentemoller [...]

  42. olivier Says:
    April 7th, 2007 at 7:53 am

    Superbe !
    beautiful !

    Thank you
    spacer

  43. links for 2007-04-24 at überthings, inc. Says:
    April 24th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

    [...] all manner of distractions » Blog Archive » Trentemøller and me Gorgeous OpenGL animations using processing. I heart flight404 (tags: art cool design music processing programming video visualization) [...]

  44. Moan - Trentemøller « Bailo Solo Says:
    May 5th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    [...] La otra es Magnetosphere, una animación creada por Robert Hodgin, musicalizada con la version original de Moan. La animación esta realizada con Processing, un lenguaje de programación para scriptear imagenes, animaciones y sonidos. Puede ser vista aquí. [...]

  45. Plugimi » Blog Archive » Flight404 Says:
    May 10th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    [...] I’m certainly not the ultimate advocator for generative/behavioural design, but I must admit that I’ve been so profoundly touched by the beauty of Robert Hodgin’s work and the humbleness of its creator that I reccommend everyone to check it out – especially the Trentemøller-piece. [...]

  46. all manner of distractions » Blog Archive » The three ‘B’s of being busy Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 12:59 am

    [...] Barcelona!!! Me and the beau are heading to Barcelona next week. I am speaking at OFFF on the 10th of May. Still need to put the finishing touches on my presentation. I will be speaking about process and simplicity and dynamic systems and will focus on the NextFest grass wall and the Magnetosphere projects. [...]

  47. Generative Art, Virtuosity, and the Neo-Baroque at dérive Says:
    June 3rd, 2007 at 4:27 am

    [...] Could we draw a similar parallel with generative art? I’m thinking mainly of the lush, maximalist strain pursued by artists such as Robert Hodgin and Marius Watz – but perhaps more generally as well. On the surface at least there are some similarities. These works are all about sensory pleasure – especially audio/visual interplay, which links up to the embodied pleasure “networks” of the club environment (eg Watz’ Illuminations for club Transmediale (below)). Definitely neo-baroque. Visual density and complexity is another hallmark; like Pozzo’s ceiling these are immersive, teeming spatial fields. What about reflexivity? This scene is marked by the artists’ open interests (and pleasure) in technique; and its aesthetics are also displays of both construction and skill. This is 3D that is quite happy to look like 3D (unlike some of the more imperceptible Hollywood fx). Yet some features of generative art don’t seem neo-baroque by Ndalianis’ formulation. Illusion, a clear link between baroque painting and digital cinema, doesn’t feature in generative art – unless we consider the toy worlds of (for eg) Magnetosphere as a kind of illusion without an original; if Hollwood persists in stitching the constructed into the photographic “real”, maybe generative art (along with gaming) has crossed over into pure simulation? [...]

  48. Bailo Solo » Blog Archive » Moan - Trentemøller Says:
    July 14th, 2007 at 12:37 am

    [...] La otra es Magnetosphere, una animación creada por Robert Hodgin, musicalizada con la version original de Moan. La animación esta realizada con Processing, un lenguaje de programación para scriptear imagenes, animaciones y sonidos. Puede ser vista aquí. [...]

  49. softexpose.com » Blog Archive » Generative Art, Virtuosity, and the Neo-Baroque Says:
    August 29th, 2007 at 7:58 am

    [...] Could we draw a similar parallel with generative art? I’m thinking mainly of the lush, maximalist strain pursued by artists such as Robert Hodgin and Marius Watz – but perhaps more generally as well. On the surface at least there are some similarities. These works are all about sensory pleasure – especially audio/visual interplay, which links up to the embodied pleasure “networks” of the club environment (eg Watz’ Illuminations for club Transmediale (below)). Definitely neo-baroque. Visual density and complexity is another hallmark; like Pozzo’s ceiling these are immersive, teeming spatial fields. What about reflexivity? This scene is marked by the artists’ open interests (and pleasure) in technique; and its aesthetics are also displays of both construction and skill. This is 3D that is quite happy to look like 3D (unlike some of the more imperceptible Hollywood fx). Yet some features of generative art don’t seem neo-baroque by Ndalianis’ formulation. Illusion, a clear link between baroque painting and digital cinema, doesn’t feature in generative art – unless we consider the toy worlds of (for eg) Magnetosphere as a kind of illusion without an original; if Hollwood persists in stitching the constructed into the photographic “real”, maybe generative art (along with gaming) has crossed over into pure simulation? [...]

  50. DOSEprodSAM Says:
    September 19th, 2007 at 5:36 am

    Great video !! and Love the music. I produced a video last year for the artist BT (his latest album contains a DVD with 7 HD 3D music videos) and some parts of my work look quite similar in style. (my video was 14mn long all in 3D with abstract images) and the music is also quite similar.
    Check it out here if you like this sort of motion art :
    www.dose-productions.com/v-bt02.html
    www.dose-productions.com/v-bt03.html

    Trailer of BT : stage6.divx.com/BT/video/1060275/BT—This-Binary-Universe—Trailer

    cheers ! peace – sam

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    September 25th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

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  52. Mick Says:
    October 22nd, 2007 at 4:05 pm

    WOW!!!! Cool! Would be great itunes plugin

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