Re: Fluidiom-code digest, Vol 1 #41 - 1 msg

> Message: 1
> From: Gerald de Jong <[email protected]>
> Organization: Beautiful Code BV
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:40:13 +0200
> Subject: [Fluidiom-code] dancing to sound! and torus rendering
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> unfortunately this is one thing i can't easily show you guys, while at the
> same time it's really mindblowing to watch.  a friend of mine here at V2
> wrote an XMMS plugin (XMMS is the WinAmp of Linux) which pumps VU-Meter
data
> into a unix queuing system, and i read that information from there
real-time.
> the fabrics dance to the music!  people i demo it to are going WOW.  i'm
> especially enjoying it with Philip Glass music.  any of you are welcome to
> run this, but it'll take a Linux machine, so i expect nobody's too
> interested.
>
> what you can see on the website is a new version with a torus rendering
for
> intervals.  there are now three rendering modes.  there's smooth
cigar-shaped
> ellipsoid intervals, sharp double-tetrahedral ones (where you can really
see
> their spin) and now torus (donut-shaped) intervals.  in the torus
rendering
> you actually see what would be a donut around the intervals middle instead
of
> the interval itself.  looks really cool.

....what is the relationship (if any) between the properties of the
intervals, and the size or other properties of the torii ('toruses'?) around
their middles?




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