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Written by Nicholas McClanahan |
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 11:13 |
Make your own Hardware-based music visualizer!
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I like the idea of building an inexpensive device that can change a Video Display with Music. Good one's for Pro Light Shows for Concerts, use to be very expensive, back when I mixed Sound for Concerts in the 90's. I would definitely want something better looking (to me) that the Demo Shapes and Colors though. What about using the music notes to make, Fractals or mixing and blending another Video in over the original? I have to admit, that I have now idea how hard this would be to program (I'm not a Coder) or how much hardware power it wold require. But, I do know that I used a little Video Switcher, back in the 90's. That could do allot types and shapes of Video Overlay and Switching Transitions, than see here. And it couldn't have had any more CPU Power than these new Proto-Boards. I wonder if Processing could be used to make the Fractals? Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. I figured out how to edit and merge a couple of the example apps. It was easy enough for me, with my limited knowledge of editing Linux Config files. Well, that and I did just take an Online Class on Programming in Python (which I didn't finish, it went to fast for me). But, it did help me to know just enough to be able to edit my own Processing App (http://bishopco.homeip.net/applet/). It basically produces a Fractal animation image. I bet that if Processing would run on the Hardware. That it could be used to automatically change the Video Overlay Image with the changes in the Music.
There's a cool Fractal making App called, Gnofract. Gnofract 4D is a free, open source program which allows anyone to create beautiful images called fractals. The images are automatically created by the computer based on mathematical principles. These include the Mandelbrot and Julia sets and many more. You don't need to do any math: you can explore a universe of images just using a mouse. It runs on Unix-based systems such as Linux and FreeBSD and can also be run on Mac OS X.
Here's something like, what I was thinking about, with the Video Overlay idea...
Chroma running
Chroma is done! I got it mounted in a frame over the Christmas break, and it's working rather well. It will probably still need some more tweaks and debugging for a little while, but it's starting to work pretty reliably. I plan to hang it up at work so people can admire my work. :)
More pictures and videos of the project.
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