avuis / substrate

Substrate

From group Five

• berkan
• lpil
• zipporobotics

Goals

• Simple to use
• Generate audio
• Generate visuals
• Flexible
• Single screen
• Interactive

Libraries:

Place library in ~/sketchbook/libraries

• Traer Physics
  • http://murderandcreate.com/physics/
• oscP5
  • http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/oscP5/

Crash course on Processing

• https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/6/3/f/e/3/Processing_Cheatsheet_Update.pdf
• http://assets.surattack.com/files/processing_cheat_sheet_english.pdf

Sprint 1

Tools:

• Processing
• Git
• An audio server recieving OSC commands from visual app

Ideas:

• Particle based system
• Particles can be interacted with by touch
  • Tap and drag
  • Repulsion
  • Attraction
• Controls
  • Multi finger touches
  • Button zones (can be hidden)

Pitch

Its an audiovisual substrate that allow you to jam with particles on a touchscreen and generate messagges that will be sent to a sound engine.

Task 1

• Setup the environments
• Download the libraries

Task 2

Demo the particle library so every one understand how it works Setup particles generator

Task 3

Setup the messagess using Processing OSC Let's set it up to send

• particle coordinates
• velocity
• if something else come up we do.

substrate's Issues

Should we use Clojure with Quil?

Hey gang!

As stated in the pub, functional programming and Lisp are really cool. We could do this project with the Lisp dialect of Clojure and Quil, the Clojure bindings for processing.

I've set up the start of a Quil project in the subtrate-quil directory.

Pros

• We can modify sketches as they are running instead of closing and re-running the entire file (use :reload 'substrate.dynamic)
• We don't have to use the Processing language
• Dependency management from Leiningen
• We can opt out of the Processing editor and not become second class citizens
• We may possibly introduce some functional beauty into this circle of hackers
• Mad nerd cred

Cons

• Probably a miserable experience if you're not into Lisp
• Probably a miserable experience if you're not into functional programming
• Probably a miserable experience if you're not the kind of guy who wears Linux tshirts in public
• We'll find it hard to get other people to contribute to the project due to the dominance of procedural style languages in this little group
• Using our particle library might be hard. Maybe. I don't know Clojure well enough to say.

Personally I'm favour. nerd cred 😎