A few FlowFields, ColorMaps and WaveShapes

[Violet]

Here's some G-Force configs I have been working on lately.
http://www.violetindustries.com/G-Force ... onfigs.zip

Extract the zip into the Soundspectrum\G-Force directory and the files should go to correct subdirectories.

I like light colors, but there aren't many ColorMaps for that taste (Ted's "Soft" is my favourite), so I made the ones included to the zip.

The FlowFields aren't that special, whereas the WaveShapes are a result of my studies in spiral curves.

Hopefully you enjoy them

[Rovastar]

Hi there again.

I'll check these out later no GF here atm. The code for the waveforms looks interesting though.

[JayPro]

The really interesting things here are the waveshapes, especially the one that looks like a pair of comets orbiting a rather interesting looking gadget.
Your Starfish design is a nice way of demonstrating how a sensitive wave can react well.

[Rovastar]

Seen these now Jussi. Yeah I like the waveshapes. The flowfields I thought look a little samey to what has been in GF before, they were however write differently by you.

The FF I liked best was Sheared Rectangles. Although there a few thing that could be changed to be more fitting in GF.

If we take the following code

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Aspc=1
A0="4" // number of rectangles
A1="0.1" // sinus exponent
A2="0.01" // flow speed

NO it is common practice in GF to have as much variety as possible in a scene whilst keeping the original spirit of the config.

Often the parameters created at initialization made with random values. So keeping the above could become something like.

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Aspc=1
A0="2 + flor(rnd(4))" // number of rectangles, range 2 to 6 (whole numbers only) (therefore average of 4)
A1="0.05 + rnd(0.1)" // sinus exponent, range 0.05 to 0.15 (therefore average of 0.1)
A2="0.005 + rnd(0.01)" // flow speed, range 0.005 to 0.015 (therefore average of 0.01)

This should give the same feel of the config with additional variety. This is a technique I use more and more in throughout different visualization and one that you can use in R4 also when you do your scenes for that. Gordon doesn't do much of this in R4 but it is something I have been trying to encourage him to do more of. I key though is keep in the true spirit of the config.

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srcT="theta + 2*A2 * sgn( D0 ) * ( abs( D0 ) )^A1"
srcR="r     + A2 * sgn( D1 ) * ( abs( D1 ) )^A1"

Also maybe have a look at the varying the multipler. e.g.

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srcT="theta + A3*A2 * sgn( D0 ) * ( abs( D0 ) )^A1"
srcR="r     + A4*A2 * sgn( D1 ) * ( abs( D1 ) )^A1"

where A3 is of the range 1 to maybe 3 or 4 and A4 is also of the range 1 to 3 or 4. Not tried this out yet but I remember playing a little last night and I think combination of the multipliers made it more or less pixilated. Anyway have a play.

[markofkane]

Thanks, Violet, I will try those out!!!

Edit: I have been doing it the hard way!!! I extracted all the other files in another directory, and "manually" put the flowfields into the G-Force "Flowfields" folder.(yesterday) I had no idea it would go into the correct folder by themselves!!! I learned something new!!!

But Violet, when you said it would do it automatically, I was skeptical.

You was right!!!

[Violet]

Hi boys
Thank you, JayPro, for your supporting comments I assume you mean the Spiral Composition? Yes, that's my favourite too of these ones.

And thank you, Rovastar, for your advice. In R4, I usually make some parameters to change slowly in time so that the scene keeps on changing if you long enough time with it. (However, you won't of course see it if you run the scenes with the 10s default fade interval.) But I should also try out the possibilities of randomly initializing parameters. Now that I think of it, it would bring much more variation to my MRCMs if the number of copies was chosen randomly in an appropriate interval.

I downloaded some of the extras configs last week and found some sweet palettes similar to mine. I wonder why they didn't make it to the release, they were so beautiful...