[sharing] New Distortions

Your the best andrew! Good work on these!

I just played around and its crazy, its exactly the same as the first cv.hsflow patch that I made! The only difference being that they are slabs instead of jit objects, and thus they run 640 at 60fps rather then 320 at 30fps.

Last night I ended up staying up and working on a different approach, I used the cv flow object at a low resolution to distort a mesh with a feedback texture on it, its working out great so far, it can go super high resolution and its very smooth and responsive, and runs at very high frame rate even full screen HD! The most fun aspect of it is that Ive gotten the distortion to be very accurate to the amount of motion, when your using it you really feel like your pushing the goo around with your movements.

Heres the first test video:http://vimeo.com/3925277

I hope to add bubbles/metaballs and other fluid characteristics and get a nice abstract fluid simulation going.

Thanks again andrew!

All I can say is...

In making a tutorial on how to use this in DNA (http://www.lividindustry.com/culture/?p=198), I had to convert the max5 patch to a max 4 patch. Might as well post it!
Of course, you'll still need Andrew's zip for the shaders.

please post max 4.6 version....

thanks!

isnt that it right above the message you just posted?

Any trick to getting this going? Should both of the presets in the patch give glitching straight from the start?

What I'm seeing is something like a posterize, as well as a bit of lower res (ie, squares) following motion. I've tried a ton of different settings, and even tried the same settings shown in the DNA how-to video and nothing gave me the imagery like I'm seeing in people's videos. That said, what I'm seeing looks pretty nice, if quite a bit more normal.

upps... yes sorry.. to fast

would be nice to have a simple standalone max5 to 4.6 converter (drag&drop)

Andrew, would it be possible to create a motion blur by using your hsflow and a blur based on motion ammount + direction?

Axiom-Crux wrote on Thu, 02 April 2009 16:30Andrew, would it be possible to create a motion blur by using your hsflow and a blur based on motion ammount + direction?

Thats a great idea. Ill see what I can whip up

edit:

rough draft of a blur: I played with this last night and while it works, its very picky. You need to do multi-pass to get it to show up, maybe 3 + passes. Keep feeding the same flow output to tex1, but chain tex0 from the output of one of these blurs to the next. It could use some work, it gets trippy fast, and is not *quite* what you would expect.
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//setup for 2 texture
varying vec2 texcoord0;
varying vec2 texcoord1;

uniform float amt;
uniform sampler2DRect tex0;
uniform sampler2DRect tex1;

void main()
{
vec4 blurVector = texture2DRect(tex1,texcoord1);    //sample flow texture

    vec2 blurAmount = vec2(blurVector.y-blurVector.x, blurVector.w-blurVector.z);    

/*    vec4 blur1 = texture2DRect(tex1, texcoord1 + blurAmount);
    vec2 blurAmount1 = vec2(blur1.y-blur1.x, blur1.w-blur1.z);    

    vec4 blur2 = texture2DRect(tex1, texcoord1 + blurAmount * 2.0);
    vec2 blurAmount2 = vec2(blur2.y-blur2.x, blur2.w-blur2.z);    
*/
    vec2 amount1 = blurAmount;// + blurAmount1 + blurAmount2;
    amount1 *= amt;

    vec2 amount2,amount3,amount4,amount5,amount6,amount7,amount8;

    amount2 = amount1 *1.5;
    amount3 = amount1 *3.0;
    amount4 = amount1 *6.0;

    amount5 = amount1 * 8.0;
    amount6 = amount1 * 10.0;
    amount7 = amount1 * 12.0;
    amount8 = amount1 * 18.0;

    // sample our textures
    vec4 sample0 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0);
    vec4 sample1 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0 + amount1);
    vec4 sample2 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0 + amount2);
    vec4 sample3 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0 + amount3);
    vec4 sample4 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0 + amount4);
    vec4 sample5 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0 + amount5);
    vec4 sample6 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0 + amount6);
    vec4 sample7 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0 + amount7);
    vec4 sample8 = texture2DRect(tex0, texcoord0 + amount8);

    gl_FragColor = (sample0 + sample1 + sample2 + sample3 + sample4 + sample5 + sample6 + sample7 + sample8) / 9.0;
}