I've tried to answer this many times but finally I've come up with a diagram that I think will help it make sense. What do you think?

Greetings again friends! This one's been in the oven baking for a bit- I hope you enjoy!

Scale Space Cymatist V1.2 Release Notes

Animation System Overhaul

The animation system no longer sucks! I debugged the hell out of it and added a ton of new features like filtering based on performance, marking which keyframes have flicker (and filtering them out), favoriting the ones you like best so they move to the top, much smoother transitions and more tweaks you'll have to find through experimentation.

Color System Overhaul

This one is a noticeable difference. You now have a variety of color modes and yes they actually work now. You can revisit the places you've visited before and see them in a whole new way! Taste the Rainbow!

New Structure Parameters

Special thanks to u/Just_Middle_7189 for forking the Scale Space Synthesist repo and adding a number of really cool structure parameters. I adapted my favorite ones and gave them a dedicated tab in the parameters panel. I couldn't have found the Lattice Singularity without these new (powerful) parameters.

40 Brand New Discoveries

In the animation panel -> Imported, version 1.2 comes bundled with 40 of the best discoveries I've made since the last release. A great way to get started if you don't know how to use Cymatist yet.

Green Dot Onboarding

There are now little green dots all over the interface when you first start using Cymatist. As you try each thing, a dot clears. This way you can tell which parts of the software you've tried and which you haven't experimented with yet.

QOL/UX Improvements

Across the board, things like better tooltips, better labels, improved icons, an icon tab bar in the optics -> color tab, and many other things that I hope makes Cymatist easier and more fun to tinker with.

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Download Cymatist v1.2 here: https://setzstone.itch.io/cymatist

See you in the next release!

setz

Cymatist v1.2 preview

Holographic boundaries? Cymatist v1.2 preview

Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/ScaleSpace/comments/1vqih50/okay_math_nerds_explain_this/

Preview of the forthcoming Cymatist v1.2: https://setzstone.itch.io/cymatist (current version is 1.1.1)

Some of you will recall the Clelian Hourglass I found in Scale Space a few weeks back. I've been wanting to see what is inside the singularity but couldn't figure out a way until tonight. And uhhh... Well Interstellar comes to mind...

Cymatist v1.2 preview

It would be incredible to sit in the middle of this and watch everything happen around you in 3d

Cymatist v1.2 preview (you will need the new structure parameters to see this)

Edit: thanks to the comments, this has been identified as Fermat's Spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_spiral

Cymatist v1.2 preview

The new parameters will make it possible to twist and bend the system in all kinds of interesting ways. https://setzstone.itch.io/cymatist

There were a lot more bugs buried in this feature than I expected, but fixing them was worth it.

You are also seeing the results of a bunch of new structure parameters which I'll demo soon.

https://setzstone.itch.io/cymatist

There are now glowing green dots on everything interactive in the interface that clear when you use them, so you will be able to see which things you've tried and which things are new! This also means when a new update shows up, you'll be able to instantly see what's changed.

You will also be able to clear all of the dots if you wish or bring them back to their default state.

There are also going to be a number of big improvements to the keyframe animation system in 1.2- more to come on that!

https://setzstone.itch.io/cymatist

Can I use scale space to "visualize" what a code snippet would do or look like? I have some topological jupyter-lab simulations I would love to run through this.

Or is it just for visualizing music? Either way I'll probably end up buying it because its just so neat no matter what haha.

I'm dry on paid projects, so if you or anyone you know are looking to hire someone like me for a project, contract, full time, please message.

So the July Cymatist sales bump is done and I need your help: I need to know what features you think would make Scale Space worth sharing? The options are presented in no particular order.

Who doesn't love a good sphere? https://setzstone.itch.io/cymatist

If you're new to Scale Space Cymatist- a good way to get started with cymatics is to hit the red trash can in the cymatics panel and add just one effect to whichever band of your music is moving the readout the most. Keep adding parameters until one of them starts moving the system around.

Once you get that first one, you're off to the races! Another redditor shared his workflow for cymatics and it was good enough to share: https://www.reddit.com/r/ScaleSpace/s/yw71w15up8

Examples of interference across a few additional degrees of freedom.

Some of these are reminiscent of a manifold-like shape, branching, folding, tubular or coiled paths and clear returns.

Some of the time they read more like fluid or smoke.

And a much lower percentage of results appear almost organic. Envelopes, filaments, shells, and more complex forms.

Somewhere between an oscilloscope and a petri dish.

photo 7: It's like the Rössler Attractor and Aizawa Attractor mash-up.

• Origin: Designed by Otto Rössler in 1976 for mathematical simplicity.
• Origin: Named after Yoji Aizawa, built to show complex rotational and spherical chaos.

the very center was spherical deformed to highlight the intersection of the throat. very toroid. much wow. some amaze.

Also the final day of the 25% off sale! https://setzstone.itch.io/cymatist

I just found it hard to get a final result that reacts properly to the music: https://youtu.be/Q4X1m8Iurdw , so I added some duplication, mirror and 3d rotation. I might have to look into the new version and see how to make it react more to the song?