"Physarum 1.0"

After another day in the HLSL code for my Physarum Force for the particle system in Tooll3, I achieved a first version of agents that follow their own pheromones.
I also added several parameters for a wider range of control.

"The Force"

Next step in my simple look-ahead agent force R&D for Tooll3, written in HLSL as a compute shader.
This one is looking ahead and a bit to the left and right and determines where to go based on where it is brightest.
For that, I feed the resulting rendered frame back into the force.

Generative sound in #Bitwig Studio using #Synthmaster3

In cubic space, a star is born
And from it's sides, the force is torn
To melt inside, into a sun
To glow forever and have fun ;-)

Had an idea today and it worked right away. 4 million Tooll3 (https://tooll.io) particles with a bit of feedback for smoother motion.

May this warm your heart.

Cheers,

Tom

"Entanglement"

All life is entangled, connected, entwined.
No matter how different, we're all one.

Tooll3 particles - 4 million - flow through space and time, and I tried to capture the emotion with my EWI USB and Respiro.

Give your soul some space to breath.

Genuary 2025 Day 18: "What does Wind look like?"

A cool breeze is flowing into my window
Brings blue air from the moon outside
Seeking warmth from the fire
Dissolving in the heat

A deceivingly simple animation in Tooll3 for this nice prompt... :-)

Genuary 2025 Day 14: "Pure black and white. No gray."

A very rare species of octolateral pointillist beings living in the black void.
Feeding on single-pixel organisms they catch in their grids...

Larger Version:
https://youtu.be/lgS0phg13vQ

Genuary 2025 Day 15: "DesignARug"

I thought I should give this a try and see if I can come up with a rug-design that I would actually like to have in my room.

Of course it should change every now and then and move and be alive... ;-)
So light transporting yarn and some LED undercoat maybe?

Genuary 2025 Day 5: Isometric Art (No vanishing points)

Trying out my Tooll3 cellshader and outline renderer with an orthographic camera gave me "funny" results since there is no depth.
But the semi-broken result was somehow fascinating and so here it is, my simple, non perspective rendering :-)

"Dance of the Spheres" - Inspired by #Mœbius...

After diving deep into Unreal Engine for two weeks, I took what I learned there about toonshaders and implemented it in Tooll3.

Hey, #techart, is there any good solution for recalculating normals once you've moved vertices around in a vertex #shader?

Most info I can find online suggests to simply sample the function used for displacing the vertices for 2 more nearby points and get the normal using a cross product, but in my case there is no underlying procedural function, everything is discrete.

"Fermat Gyroscope"

Tumbling through space and time,
Our internal gyros trying to stabilize our course.
Sometimes succeeding,
Sometimes not so much.
We find moments of balance and direction,
But other times we flail and spin out of control.

And we find that it's a dance.
That staying in motion, in the flow, is more important
Than perfection.

Released ImageColorPicker 1.05 - added CSS and SVG exports, automatic palette extraction, gradient save & load.
GitHub: https://github.com/LeStahL/ImageColorPicker/releases/tag/1.0.5
Discuss on Pouet: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=95321
#tools #color #gradient #oklab #demoscene #python #github #shader #glsl #hlsl #css #svg

"Lemniscating"

Another math-meditation, this time over lemniscate spirals, bells and an ambient sound...

Inspired by @fractalkitty

In my series of Tooll3 point generators, today I created first a lemniscate, but then extended it to be able to create lemnispirals by varying the radius over time.

https://youtu.be/l7UrvBH2b7w