creative41 / gestalt

Creative coding playground - Color, Note, Code

Definition of gestalt: "something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts"

This is an open source repository of creative coding integrations and playground. Some visual ouputs are posted on following pages.

• Facebook page: Color Note Code
• Instagram: @colornotecode
• YouTube: vonqo

Showcase

Gallery

Directories

• modules - List of modules that written in different programming languages

  • orchestrator - Synthesize variety of images, audio and videos.
    • Processing bindings
    • Some utility classes taken from deeplearning4j/DataVec
  • moodbar - Used in orchestrator. Forked from exaile/moodbar
  • hqz - Used in orchestrator. Forked from scanlime/zenphoton
  • a1_restorer - Image defect fixing, enhance greyscale

• sketches - Processing sketches.

• study_materials - Project related study material list.

Installation

Execute install.sh. Installation script is not maintained. If things gone wrong, screw this script and go manual.

Manual installation

Orchestrator integrates all modules with isolated process calls. Each modules has to be successfully builded on the system. The source code of module(s) from this repository is slightly changed to fit with Orchestrator.

Follow these instruction:

• Moodbar installation or (For OSX) Moodbar Xcode port
• ZenPhoton installaton

And install these third party tools:

• FFmpeg
• [experimental] Neural Style torch implementation + cuDNN

Usage

1. Edit modules/orchestrator/config.json to setup your paths.
   • You can ignore neuralStyle section unless you've installed it.
2. Edit and freestyle your config.json

{
  "system": {
    "moodbarExecuteable": "moodbar",
    "hqzExecutable": "~/gestalt/modules/zenphoton/hqz/hqz",
    "ffmpegExecutable": "ffmpeg",
    "resourceDir": "~/Desktop/",
    "neuralStyle": {
      "executable": "~/neural-style.lua",
      "styleDir": "~/style_img/",
      "contentDir": "~/content_img/"
    }
  },
  "param": {
      "fontName": "Interstate",
      "audio": [
        {
          "exportType": "BUBBLE_BAR_2DRT",
          "audioFile": ["alive2"],
          "displayText": ["Portal - Still Alive (Portal OST)"],
          "hasBanner": true,
          "ray": 200000,
          "extraDataFile": "dafuq.json"
        },
      ],
      "videoExport": {
        "isVideoExport": false,
        "usableCore": 1,
        "startFrame": 0,
        "endFrame": 0
      }
    }
}

3. Build it with Maven.
4. Run

License

Enkh-Amar. G (vonqo). Released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0