Lazerbeat
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Tokyo, Japan

Following on from the absolutely fantastic Litewall project, I had a thought.

Litewall grew out of a random off hand day drea which a couple of really really talented coders got inspired by an developed into a working tool which far exceeded the original concept.

Bearing in mind the NES/Powerpack combination is:

- Fairly Cheap
- Robust
- Small
- Easy to get hold of
- Awesome

With a growing list of great software

- Glitchnes
- No Carrier's battery of tools and gadgets
- Litewall

I wondered if it might be fun to throw a few more concepts around and see if anything else sticks. If not, it might prove a useful pool of ideas next time a coder is looking for a project. Forgive me as I have no idea how possible or practical or hard or easy any of this is, purely from an aesthetic point of view, so:

- Fractals -

No idea how possible this would be but a slowly zooming fractal generator might be fun.


- Conway's game of life -

Watch life happen and listen to chip music.


- Growth -

Bit difficult to articulate this one but I LOVED the Hunters VJ set at Blip 09, and the idea of something kind of organic looking has always appealed to me. Starting with a few objects at the bottom of a screen which can slowly grow or expand towards the top of a screen with successive button presses? Kind of hard to articulate.

Curious what other ideas people have.

TmTgr
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Melbourne, Australia
Lazerbeat wrote:

Powerpack [is] Fairly Cheap

If only sad

e.s.c.
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IL, US
TmTgr wrote:
Lazerbeat wrote:

Powerpack [is] Fairly Cheap

If only sad

as a video artist who use mostly hardware, let me say $135 is VERY cheap in terms of something you may use for visuals...about the cheapest decent video mixers are over $500 new, same range for projectors, etc.

node
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thieveland ohio

i have an idea for a animation type app. you have a grid 8x8 and can "paint" in the pixels. you can add steps to the sequence so you can make animations.so 16 steps = 16 frames.  then some how you can trigger these animations from a play/sequence screen. i have drawing but no way to scan them in as of yet.

akira^8GB
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New York City
e.s.c. wrote:
TmTgr wrote:

If only sad

as a video artist who use mostly hardware, let me say $135 is VERY cheap in terms of something you may use for visuals...about the cheapest decent video mixers are over $500 new, same range for projectors, etc.

But the usability of such device is by FAR extremely little compared to that of a videomixer.
With 250dollars I can buy a low spec PC and it would be far more usable than a Powerpack.

nickmaynard
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rochester, ny

i always liked the visuals that midines makes. could a program do the same thing but with nsf files? like, the music controls the visuals?

e.s.c.
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IL, US
akira^8GB wrote:
e.s.c. wrote:

as a video artist who use mostly hardware, let me say $135 is VERY cheap in terms of something you may use for visuals...about the cheapest decent video mixers are over $500 new, same range for projectors, etc.

But the usability of such device is by FAR extremely little compared to that of a videomixer.
With 250dollars I can buy a low spec PC and it would be far more usable than a Powerpack.

true, though the powerpak can also be used for glitchnes, NTRQ, roms, NSF playback, etc... so for someone who would be on chipmusic.org to begin with, i think its still a solid deal for its price..less so if youre just a visualist who likes the look of low bit graphics
also: the powerpak is $135, so about half what that low spec pc costs

akira^8GB
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New York City

But howmany more things you can do with a pc? smile

e.s.c.
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IL, US

can you put one in your NES? wink

bucky
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philly

lol smile

e.s.c.
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IL, US

dammit bucky! wink
ok, you win, you win

bucky
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philly

Oh! To add something relevant, I love the 'transition' animation from Taboo: The Sixth Sense. Skip to 2:30-

If only those cards weren't in the way! The colors also change if you press buttons, although you'd probably never know this without an emulator + save stating (since they change on their own to begin with and you wouldn't have a reference for what's different). I'm not sure how elaborate they made the interactivity... probably not very.

If any NES hackers / coders could take a look at this or try to recreate it, I'd love to see it. I can't really think of other classic NES games that had something that was totally VJ-worthy...

Last edited by bucky (Jul 24, 2010 10:32 pm)

Koatl
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Riverside, CA

I want this on my Powerpak.

http://www.no-carrier.com/mandala/index.html

ui
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Venezuela
akira^8GB wrote:

But howmany more things you can do with a pc? smile

thats because we are SUDAKAS!!! DE MIERDA!... and that cost us a lot of money!. about 500 pesos!??? thats a big much! XDDD... here about 900 bsF!!! almost/about the basic salary!!!!! LOL.... fokyes!... we are all SUDAKAS!. hope ppl can appriciate and undestand why is expensive for us, and a plus the shipping maybe will PWNED our ass, especially in Argentina, which the % the goverment takes for let you get an electronic device from outside of Argentina is about 60% of the cost... so that mades about 220us$ which is even more money! LOL...

but yes... NES VJ would be nice for power pak, or whatever other kind of cart. But honestly i preffer a VJ program with a portable device, but having more options is always nice

KeFF
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Turku, FIN

I've been vj'ing with litewall and glitchnes now, and one thing i would most like to see is custom sprites.
I wan't to be able to use text and draw my own pictures on the wall. GlitchNes is too glitchy for that..

bucky
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philly

This doesn't help for sprites, but for text you could try scrollNES-
http://vimeo.com/8779990
http://www.no-carrier.com/index.php?/scrollnes/