Generative Art - Processing Sketches in Java
Graphics sketches using Processing as a library in a gradle project for ease of version control and to let me use a decent IDE.
This is intended to be the beginning of a mini framework for
conveniently creating video or gif loops of a desired duration.
It should be easy to make seamlessly repeating loops by parametising
by a trigonometric cycle of 2 * Pi and supporting only ingegral
divisions of this.
Goals
Generate animations, save to video file, integrate audio intended to loop harmoniously, automatic upload to social network platforms.
Status
Pre-larval. A couple of animations will run and show in a window but not yet save or upload.
Originally created in the Processing environment which used the VideoExport library to write a video file successfully but this is currently not working outside Processing. The plan is to use gstreamer-java to do this in a standalone context.
Install
- builds with
gradle. Each animation is an application. - requires gstreamer binaries to be installed by system packager, e.g. MacOS:
brew install gstreamer
- currenly only tested on MacOS but should work on Linux if GStreamer is in the path already. Probably won't work on Windows but if you want that let me know because it's should be easy. I just don't need it.
TODO
- Add GL deps to enable
Processing.P3Dmode. - Make
thetadivisions explicitly integral - so that epicycles always complete neatly on the master loop for seamlessness. - Have a warm-up loop length so lingering artifacts get a chance to stabilise such that the looped clip is seamless (requires some experimentation and testing.)
- Automate
.gifand.m4vexport. The Processing libVideoExportmay not be convenient to add as a gradle dep. - Automate social network uploads
- Tiktok
- need to decide about music/sound for video items. Generative sound is a nice to have, but it must sound good enough. Libs?
- Configure target dimensions with dynamic scaling. Tiktok wants 720:1280, Twitter probably wants something 16:9. Check out bees&bombs examples.
- Make parametisation interactive with a convolver or GA with artificial selection.