[Fluxus] avoiding glitches and sphere normals

[Evan]

Hey Kassen,

This is a very cool project - I've been on holiday for a bit and so haven't chimed in yet.  I am a big fan of the illustrations in The Little Princess, and it was on my (every-expanding) to-do list to make something like that.  I'm very glad you did it (and kept us in the loop as you did).  I wanted to do something like what you're talking about, where worlds are created in response to beats.  Like Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" meets the game Spore.  Of course, Dave has his city/Traffic project going on, so it seems that building virtual worlds for performances is all the rage nowadays :)



Cheers
Evan 



On 13 Feb 2010, at 18:20, Kassen wrote:

> it's not that difficult. you just copy the points and normals and build your triangles from the data. something like this:
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> Of course! And borrowing the normals like this will mean the new version should be smooth looking as well. And this technique should still be viable for nurbs spheres when I get round to hills. Great.
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> (hint-normalise) also improved matters a lot. It brings out the lighting a lot better too and made me re-tweak that. I'd like to suggest this be added to the manual pdf as right now I can't find it there.
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> and congrats for your village project. it evolved very nicely in the last months.
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> Thanks! I'm happy with it. it's nice to see it grow and also my Scheme/Fluxus skills reflected in it. I'm going to keep working on this, it could be a lot more elaborate. Especially the animations could be more intelligent. As it is it keeps the attention for a few minutes so that's ok for exhibitions but not so good for 45 minute musical performances. It might be nice if the world would get "colonised" over the course of a song, with multiple models for various stages of buildings getting constructed. Different sounds might lead to a preference for different sorts of buildings. Of my recent projects it also seems to appeal to most people, that's of course good too.
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> Yours,
> kas.

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