seejayjames

The Electric Sheep screensaver is elegant and awesome. Check it out:

http://electricsheep.org/index.cgi?&menu=talk

Wondering if anyone on the forum has thought of working with the algorithm thru Max. If we could figure out a way to spew parameters to it, the screensaver would definitely move up a bunch of notches. Being able to easily control the params in real-time is a natural for Max, it's just how to get the values in there.

Moving past the Visual Basic (or whatever they used) interface for setting parameters (though it works OK and I applaud the results) --- we want more control! Wondering if the algorithm (open-source) could be applied right in Max / Jitter. There's so many great-looking results, it would be a shame to not experiment via a pattr or something.

electric-sheep-controller

The screen saver downloads pre-rendered patterns that have been 

rendered by users. The process is to computationally intensive for 

real time, which is assumedly what you want.

On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Seejay James wrote:

> The Electric Sheep screensaver is elegant and awesome. Check it out:

> Wondering if anyone on the forum has thought of working with the 

> algorithm thru Max. If we could figure out a way to spew parameters 

> to it, the screensaver would definitely move up a bunch of notches. 

> Being able to easily control the params in real-time is a natural 

> for Max, it's just how to get the values in there.

> Moving past the Visual Basic (or whatever they used) interface for 

> setting parameters (though it works OK and I applaud the results) 

> --- we want more control! Wondering if the algorithm (open-source) 

> could be applied right in Max / Jitter. There's so many great- 

> looking results, it would be a shame to not experiment via a pattr 

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The screen saver downloads pre-rendered patterns that have been  
rendered by users.  The process is to computationally intensive for  
real time, which is assumedly what you want.

>
> The Electric Sheep screensaver is elegant and awesome. Check it out:
>
> http://electricsheep.org/index.cgi?&menu=talk
>
> Wondering if anyone on the forum has thought of working with the  
> algorithm thru Max. If we could figure out a way to spew parameters  
> to it, the screensaver would definitely move up a bunch of notches.  
> Being able to easily control the params in real-time is a natural  
> for Max, it's just how to get the values in there.
>
> Moving past the Visual Basic (or whatever they used) interface for  
> setting parameters (though it works OK and I applaud the results)  
> --- we want more control! Wondering if the algorithm (open-source)  
> could be applied right in Max / Jitter. There's so many great- 
> looking results, it would be a shame to not experiment via a pattr  
> or something.
>
> --CJ

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Was just thinking about this today, resurrecting an ancient thread

Interested in VIZZable incorporation though

Ancient thread is right! I totally forgot I posted it...

Wonder if computers have gotten fast enough to do this in real-time now?

I don't see why not. Watching a fully bloomed kalediscope and fisheye and lumi-keyed VIZZable with 3 video overlays and an OPENGL input stream going all at once while running synths all through Ableton and Max4Live... on a laptop...

I know ESheep is pretty intense but not THAT intense, right? Maybe? ProjectM would be even less instense...

I don't see why not.  Watching a fully bloomed kalediscope and fisheye and lumi-keyed VIZZable with 3 video overlays and an OPENGL input stream going all at once while running synths all through Ableton and Max4Live... on a laptop...

I know ESheep is pretty intense but not THAT intense, right?  Maybe?  ProjectM would be even less instense...


Aaaaand.... let’s resurrect this ancient thread again. Surely now this can run real time on the GPU and there must be some way for it to compile as a shader ?

I'd also love to see this - I've started to have a little poke around at the idea.

Sadly the Electric Sheep forum appears to have been replaced with a Facebook group.

 (another visual piece by the same artist who created Electric Sheep) it notes that he & David Zicarelli have previously collaborated.

Interestingly, on the page about Bomb (another visual piece by the same artist who created Electric Sheep) it notes that he & David Zicarelli have previously collaborated.

I really want to try Bomb but it doesn’t run on OS X, only the classic macOS. I havent tried it with max, but I think there is a very old version. I would love to get that working or do something similar inside max.

Electric Sheep controller