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Cable Management... #XParticles @insydium

For many years I've wanted to have a website that shows a constrant stream of cool motion design inspiration to run on a spare screen in a design studio. So I made the FrameRate ScreenSaver which displays a grid of videos from FrameRate and plays random ones all day long. play.florianthamer.com/frss Thanks to @__T_Williams__ and @justincone for making FrameRate what Vimeo used to be, but better!

Looking forward to receiving another artists files with 10 vibe coded plugins in it that break as soon as the client wants you to change something away from their defaults. The benefit of having someone making a "real" software product is that it goes through a rigorous testing process to find and eliminate all the bugs. Having said that I'll be releasing a specific workflow plugin for a very specific problem on aescript myself soon (vibe-coded), but I do hope I managed to find all the bugs. The solution might be that people will have to send their source code to their plugins with their scene files so people can fix their own bugs if they need to. Not really the future that most designers have signed up for =)

Everyone will have their own custom plugins made for their specific workflows very soon. There will be a lot of redundancy and fragmentation. But also higher output. The market for small QoL plugins will basically vanish. Github will be full of this stuff with minimal downloads.

@Ta28312849 @sidefx fileamentsample is a VEX function which essentially calculates a cross product from a given particle position and a curve geometry. It essentially rotates points around a line. It's a really lightweight calculation (this runs almost at 30fps with 8 million particles IIRC)

@der_flow_ @sidefx I’m pretty new to Houdini still only get like 2 hrs a weekend, can you explain a little more on how to do this? Is filamentsample() a node?

We've recently gotten into doing lots of audio-visualization RnD at sunmachine.io . So I've built a @sidefx Houdini HDA that extracts stems from music and outputs clean midi for the instruments. I've then piped it into a little POP solver advecting particles with the filamentsample() function only, because it looks cool!

@Duong_A they deserve a comeback!

@der_flow_ Reviving windows media player vizualisers?

This is the third iteration of the setup. I'm using Meta's free and open source DEMUCS for stem extraction, and librosa for analyzing the audio data. Do I know what any of that means? Hell no. But Gemini/ChatGPT/Claude knows and that's good enough for my little Python SOP!

@bzor @simonfarussell @sidefx yeah it's pretty smooth this way. Load in your audio track, wait a minute for the stems to be separated, your Midi computes within seconds.

@der_flow_ @simonfarussell @sidefx awesome! I was doing the midi gen in Ableton and using Houdini Music Toolset.. this sounds way less painful

@Flexi23 @Shadertoy Haha love it. One day in the future this will be very much a desired effect. The children will be yearning for the artifacts!

@der_flow_ Too bad, @Shadertoy's soundcloud API broke again in the meantime, but yeah, sometimes death-by-compression as expectable outcome can be artistically incorporated... 😅 x.com/Flexi23/status…

Why not have the particles move so frantically that the compression on social media fux up the whole thing and then call it artistic intent lol.

A bit of data extraction from audio. Using #python and #houdini

This kinda exploded. While you're here check out my OnlyFans: sunmachine.io

"What bitrate should I export my mp4s in?" I used to wonder this until I found a formula in an old PDF that an Adobe employee created over 15 years ago. I turned it into a little calculator for everyone to use: bitratecalculator.app

@RadekDubisz it should be fixed now, thanks for mentioning it!

@der_flow_ I dunno if you intended the dropdown to look like this (I hope you didn't). This here's Win 11, Edge browser.

@simohn I have added it to the website now! Thanks for the great idea!

@der_flow_ With an target sice of the file would be useful. I sometmis hafe to deliver 4mb files. And the 5th trial n error export matches that...

@FallenGayms I agree, that's why there's a motion complexity setting. It acts as a multiplier depending on how much is going on in the frame.

@der_flow_ And the type of content displayed has a big impact as well

A little music visualisation experiment. More info: sunmachine.io/work/light-for… #dataviz #musicvisualization #houdini #ebsynth #suno

@oyacaro exactly, that's why you can choose the motion complexity, it acts like a multiplier. if you hover over the icons it explains what they mean.

@der_flow_ whats inside the video? thats what matter for bitrate not just number. you can get worse quality on higher bitrate depending on the video content. not so simple

@RadekDubisz thanks! Working on fixing this!

@banteg ok bro

@der_flow_ nobody uses bitrate mate, just export with crf 16-19 and you’ll get the same quality throughout.

@fagtress Interesting, I'll look into that. I wasn't aware of this, never came across it.

@der_flow_ no this is completely wrong, and all modern h.264 encoders support CRF. CRF is a number, usually between 0 and 100, which corresponds to a perceptual quality level. for example with x264, the best h.264 encoder, a CRF of 18 is generally not noticeable in motion

@simohn great idea! I'll build that in!