The Optical Theremin

Matt Finke from LoopLight sent me this video using ArKaos software in a very creative way. In their toolkit you find NuVJ for standard VJ work and MediaMaster controlled from a GrandMA console.

The Optical Theremin

The Optical Theremin

Here is the video:

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Philipp from LoopLight also sent me this information:

“I used Arkaos MediaMaster, Arkaos NuVJ and grandMA ultralight in one network session. The headlights were Jarag-5 in a matrix with par30 and 52 Movinglights with CMY. I made a pixelpatch in MediaMaster for Jarag and put the CMY of the movinglights in the same pixelpatch. A camera, the first input to MediaMaster, indicated towards a plexiglass disk, which i had divided in two areas. Left side for Jarag and the right side for the CMY. The NuVJ was the second input to MediaMaster for SD Clips. I set different fx like edge detect, greyscale and contrast in MediaMaster. Then I scaled my live input on pixelpatch, only the left area of plexiglass. Finally I moved my hand vertically and horizontal on the left area during playing SD Clips from NuVJ. For CMY I made four large Colourwheels in different bright colours. I moved one of the Colourwheels in the right area to change all CMY in the movinglights.”

As you can see it’s a cool example of creative processing with lighting!

ArKaos software used at Coachella 2009

Here is an article speaking about the famous Coachella festival.

Momo the monster was using a lot of tools but included was three NuVJ stations.

 

 

NuVJ

NuVJ

 

 

Read more here:

vj-at-coachella on createdigitalmotion.com

NuVJ is a very simple 2 layers left right video mixer, but because it’s packed with a lot of goodies like real time effects and music visualizers it’s very popular.

New synch experiments at WWDC

Using many computers to test my new experiment … it’s not always easy so I used the opportunity of having the compatibility lab at WWDC to check if my development is running under Snow Leopard and at least with 6 computers. There is one server and 5 clients. The clients are low end macs, Mac mini, iMacs, MacBook Pro. Here is the result:

There is a black frame when switching queues but hey, it’s a prototype 🙂

Everything is multithreaded so I move forward carefully. There are threads for the network synchronization, video decompression, OpenGL rendering and status update to the server…