sweet..

i think is great as first animation!

the motion is seamless, beautiful camera coding.

Really nice!

Amazing !!!

lovely!
love the foggy background

Fantastic work. Really inspirational stuff. How is the smoke effect created? I would guess blurred semi-transparant particles.

beautiful

quite simply fantastic

this is beautiful. cant believe its your first animation! great job :)

Beautiful!

Very cool

hey, this is great stuff! one question though....what did you make this with? when you said 'processing' at the top, is that the name of the program?

amazing work!!!

Nice

very beautiful :)

Amazing work!

just a guess...
After Effects+ a Damn lot of 3Dstroke plugin!? :]
but i cant seem to figure out the other effects used for the smoke, and the dotted edges of those tentacles ...
care to share\validate?

great piece of art, buddy! :]
Boards of Canada rock!!

beautiful stuff! is it all in processing or bits of mathAnimation composed in a compositing software?

i started learning processing but cant even imagine doing stuff like that with code..

anyway, good work keep posting stufff

super !

Thanks everyone for the feedback,
by the way it's %100 Processing (programming *math), all the shading too (dense noise patterns of transparent ellipses).
The underlying concept of all the motion is multiple cos/sin oscillators which create the curves and direction, the camera z is also hooked to one of these oscillators, which i hope, creates a holistic sense of motion between lots of different elements.

Really nice.

Excellent choice of track too. Massive BoC fan here.

Cool.

lovely!

beautiful work!

niceeeee...
\o/

Beatiful.
I would hire you to make a video of a song of mien :P
Cheers!
Kep up the arts!

very impressive

Great work Glenn

beautiful, dynamic visuals! loved it!

Very cool, Great camera work. Love to see a Hd version

Gorgeous. Listen to Matmos for more science-inspired songs.

Any chance of you opening up the source code for those of us less gifted?

haha you kidding?! the best way to learn is to do it yourself, honestly... There's more info however on the concepts behind the video on my blog butterfly.ie -you can write to me about something specific and I'll try and help -by the way I'm working on doing an HD version which I'll upload soon.

Hi Glenn, thanks for the link to your blog. I am brand new to processing, and it seems processing is often about learning by example. But I can completely understand/respect keeping the source code closed. Once again, thanks for a simply inspirational piece of art and programming.

Thanks,
I don't mind sharing bits and pieces, but seriously, by the time you figure out my enigmatic messy code, you could have worked it out yourself, and learned a lot more generally, but I'm glad to help out if I can, even though I'm relatively new to Processing myself.

really impressive (:

very nice and elegant

It looks cool, but to me the timing seems just a little off. For example when the squigly "sperm cells" jump off the branches at 1:10. I would've had them jump off precisely at the moment the beat sets in.

Awesome, it so cool like the tree growing up

This is cool, I still think it's the best one of the BoC series.
Interestingly, the more I work with Processing the more I realise the interesting patterns that arise from the combination of simple behaviours (emergence).

love this song!

amazing!

Glenn Marshall ,
My name is VINICIUS NASCIMENTO and I am a junior curator of the One Minute Festival Brazil.
I’ve watched your video Music Is Math (unfinished) and I found it quite interesting. If you submit it to our Festival, you may win money awards!
The One Minute Festival is now online and permanent. The Festival launches new themes every month, and gives money awards to the best videos. We have different permanent categories.
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If your video is longer than 1 minute, you can edit it to have up to 60 seconds, and then submit it.
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- Analog Revolution, by Juliane Dal Maso Bogo
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