Seeking generative/procedural artist beta users! (PLEASE BOOST!)

It’s now 2 years since I open-sourced my pet language, Flitter. I’ve used it for multiple live gigs, interactive installations and video artworks

However, I have no idea if it has value beyond my use. I need people to try it, tell me what they hate and what sucks most in the docs

You need to be comfortable at the CLI, example visuals on the #FlitterLang tag

https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter

Tried something different for Tiny Code Christmas today: an attempt at doing the most literal translation of the “Rasterbars" problem that I can do into Flitter. I was interested in seeing how close I could get to the TIC-80 demo and the starting code.

The core drawing function is surprisingly close to the Lua original, despite Flitter being a completely different paradigm:

https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/lovebytetcc2024/day06x_rasterbars.fl

Great first night at #LightUpLancaster of Daydream in the priory. Lots of people staying to watch the whole thing (some multiple times!). The space looked amazing

The work is a triangular mirror box with a back projection screen. The organ music and visuals are inspired by the life of composer and astronomer William Herschel

As promised, here's a video from last night's first unveiling of my "magic portal" installation at the Hour House event in Skelton and Guisborough.

The participants here are being captured with a Kinect depth camera and inserted into a 3D scene with virtual lighting. Depth information is used to allow the live figures to stand behind, in-front of or even over virtual objects.

Playing with generating crystalline shapes today by carving random slices off of boxes

Experimenting with a “J. J. Abrams” lens flare filter to go with the new filmic tone-mapping…

So I was inspired by a recent post by @noneuclideandreamer to have a go at making a ringed planet in Flitter.

As usual, I spent too long on it and ended up having to implement new features to make it work the way I wanted…

The planet would likely be simpler to describe as an SDF, but here I'm leaning heavily on the Flitter mesh CSG operations to build an insane 180k triangle model.

Code here:
https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/miscellanea/ringed_planet.fl

Experiments in mixed rendering in Flitter

The lava blobs are SDF surfaces rendered with a custom shader and the green sphere is a triangle mesh rendered with the normal lighting shader. The same lighting is passed into both renderers and they output into the same colour and depth buffers

Code here if anyone is interested:
https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/genuary2024/day29.fl

Have been in Birkenhead all this week, in residence at the Williamson Gallery with Di Mainstone working on a forthcoming exhibition. I'm back working on grass again. I've got this working with a Kinect so that the grass waves as you move through it

Great seeing some pictures of me in my alter-ego at EMF as live visuals performer with @feralfive. Lovely to be back on stage with them! (Even if I spent most of the performance in a cold sweat )

#emfcamp #EMF2024 #emfHighlights #FlitterLang #LiveVisuals #LiveMusic
https://mastodon.social/@feralfive/112564849043594373

OK EMF gang, I need YOUR help! I am doing live visuals on stage B this evening at 22:40 for the ace @feralfive with their Truth Is The New Gold show. Part of the show involves Kat singing your toots. Send us your musings on “truth” (EMF or otherwise) with hashtag #emftruth

Genuary day 29: “Signed Distance Functions”, handily also covering day 12: “lava lamp” and day 30: "shaders”.

This uses the recent custom 3D shader support in Flitter. A simple physics system is used to determine the position, size and temperature of a bunch of spheres and then these are "smooth” union-ed and rendered with a custom ray-marching SDF shader. A satisfying blobiness in this.

https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/genuary2024/day29.fl

Genuary day 9: ASCII. This is a fairly simple sketch, an homage to my first computer and – for many of my generation – first program. I'm using an actual BBC Micro bitmapped font here and creating little red, green and blue blobs for each pixel – because of that, this demo also works as an entry for day 4.

https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/genuary2024/day9.fl

[Edited to fix super-annoying glitch in video]

Genuary day 6: "screensaver”

This is my homage to the legendary After Dark flying toaster screensaver, from my student days working on 68k Macs. I've challenged myself here to make something resembling a toaster, wings and toast using no external models or textures. The solution is entirely functional, with no state.

https://github.com/jonathanhogg/flitter-examples/blob/main/genuary2024/day6.fl