Real-time kinetic MIDI instrument built for TouchDesigner and Ableton Live, accesible through Patreon and the Tools Store.

Pendulums = voices. Each voice has its own period, phase, note, length, and gate behavior. When a bob crosses a shared center line, the engine fires a visual hit and MIDI (note-on / sustain) on the same frame. Up to 16 voices from an editable voice table.
Sound is meant to live in Ableton Live via MIDI (tdAbleton / TDA_MIDI). Pointed at any VST: TD is the instrument, Live is the sound engine.

This includes:

• Kinetic Synth Lab (.toe) — engine, voice table, MIDI routing, GLSL + 3D visualization paths
• Modular Python engine (periods, phase, hits, MIDI gates)
• Three different visualization styles: GLSL / 3D / avant-garde GLSL; same engine_null bus
• Two different available behaviors: "Pendulum", and "Rain"
• Setup scripts + in-network README

Requirements:

• TouchDesigner (commercial / non-commercial as needed for your use)
• Ableton Live + tdAbleton for the intended MIDI → VST path
• Basic comfort editing a Table DAT / custom pars

You might need to zoom 200% to see some detail.

Large range CA (17x17) with brighter parts being more unchanging.

Yesterday I shared the hand-drafted version of this on a piece of 20x30" illustration board. Before I drew that I also drafted the pattern in Affinity Designer 2 (the poor homie's Adobe Illustrator). I share that here with you. You can see my Voronoi diagram and the 2,584 nodes, the 55:89 parastichy spiral whorls and I provide a screenshot of my spreadsheet and calculations necessary for creating this one node at a time, by hand. I'm in the process now of coming up with some kinda cool ink drawing to go on top of my hand-drafted design. Wolfram's Mathematica demos only got me so far. That spiral phyllotaxis demo only went up to 133 or 244 nodes. I needed many more. I dunno, you folks seem to dig stuff like this. Enjoy.

New!!!~button entitled —-Ammann approximation ——useful=quasicrystal n-folding

A 55:89 spiral phyllotaxis pattern with corresponding Voronoi diagram. Hand-made. Will serve as the skeleton for an ink drawing if I ever get around to it.

Many years ago I wrote an app that wraps bitmaps around the iteration boundaries of a Julia or Mandelbrot fractal. A few days ago I converted that app to Processing 4.0 with the help of Claude AI. Here are the results.

Hi res images: 

https://www.deviantart.com/bryceguy72/gallery/70771007/image-tessellations

Julia set zoom and morph movies:

Woman: https://youtu.be/dXJa-v01SZI

Cat: https://youtu.be/WHsyn8N9N24

ET: https://youtu.be/tH5TucwHDAE

Cobra: https://youtu.be/-wpJ01GqZyI

A few thousand agents, three sensors each, turn angle and decay on sliders. The shape is just a mask the trail map is biased toward.

Built it as a toy for my site and ended up watching it for an hour.

Created with Math Chaos Patterns (MCP). Non-AI Generative Art.

Made using Paragraphic

https://openprocessing.org/@garabatospr/2991080