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This is the Waltz from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake suite, rendered through my music visualiser. This is an entirely generative/audio reactive animation, i.e. no keyframing or manual input or editing. Programmed using the Processing language.

More info at butterfly.ie

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  • Andris Krastiņš 3 years ago
    Beautiful! You'll soon reach perfection, if haven't reached it already.
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  • James Alliban plus 3 years ago
    Wow. I think the drama of the Waltz works very well with your algorithm. Much better than Bodysnatchers. Interesting to see the piece reacting to different musical genres. Come on, give us a bit of Hammertime. You know you want to. :P
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    you cant touch this :)
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  • Sasha Fornari plus 3 years ago
    awesome work! nice music selection too.
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  • beckel 3 years ago
    The camera action on this is perfect.
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    yeah I averaged out every 5 frames to smooth out sudden spikes, more appropriate for ballet..
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  • GeniusRocket plus 3 years ago
    0:48 is the perfect moment.
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  • Blake Whitman staff 3 years ago
    Glenn, you are a master.
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  • Blue Chablis 3 years ago
    Mind boggling!
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  • Stephen Niebauer pro 3 years ago
    absolutely breathtaking. nice job!
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  • Brad Miller 3 years ago
    It's CGI Fantasia!
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  • Sven 3 years ago
    Awesome! will you release a public version of this visualizer??? would really like to get my hands on it. ;)
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  • Clan McCloud 3 years ago
    FANTASIA!!!! This is amazing. Will you distribute/sell this visualizer? So so so coooool!
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    it's on the cards i think...
  • Clan McCloud 3 years ago
    well consider me first in line when that day comes! :-)
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  • Elliot Clowes 3 years ago
    You've visualized Tchaikovsky's masterpiece in an equally brilliant manner.
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  • Brian Boudreau 3 years ago
    Incredible!!!
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  • Daniel Hayek pro 3 years ago
    If Glenn Marshall and flight 404 (Robert Hodgin) had a baby it would be a being pure light who would mesmerize the world with its hypnotizing lights.

    I'm just sayin...
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    jeff minter too!...
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  • Jeffrey Butler plus 3 years ago
    Love it.
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  • eric cwiertny 3 years ago
    simply... beautiful.
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  • TheAllSpark 3 years ago
    dont know how this works :) But it works great .... Hell yeah :D
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  • Ron Proctor plus 3 years ago
    Love it. I am constantly amazed by what people can do with code.
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  • Oliver Lavery-Farag plus 3 years ago
    Really nice work dude! What did you program it in?
  • Oliver Lavery-Farag plus 3 years ago
    Woah! I thought that you were going to say AE with some wired expresions and key frames; or something like that. This is on a completley different level, AWESOME!
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  • bloopy 3 years ago
    it was gorgeous and i loved it but i'm kind of curious - am i the only person who found the little camera zooms in and out kind of, i dunno, jarring and annoying?. . . like watching raw footage by someone who just got a camcorder and keeps fiddling with the zoom lever?. . .

    the big sweeping zooms that accompanied the large changes in volume were *great*, but the little fidgety ones that went with the normal small variations in volume you get with any song, i thought, kind of detracted from the flowing nature of the visualizer. . .

    but then again, after re-reading all of the comments above me, i guess i probably am alone in thinking this and am a total dumbass. . .
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    yeah, but it's just an early test demonstrating how audio controls everything.....camera could still be better i agree.
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  • toyky 3 years ago
    bravooooo!
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  • Jon Rawlinson pro 3 years ago
    That was incredible.

    I blogged it. Hope thats cool.

    jonrawlinson.com/2008/10/swan-lake-zeno-music-visualiser/
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  • Roobik 3 years ago
    nice! although a more conservative color scheme with the occassional outbursts might make it even more dramatic. very impressive none the less. cheers.
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  • Ben Jacob 3 years ago
    A one line comment is not enough to describe this tings beauty.. !
    You are a Processing Ninja ! ;)
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  • Autobotika.Niko 3 years ago
    This is gettin cooler every time
    can I ask you, is it real-time?
    if so, what is your hardware?
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    not quite realtime yet, but with a bit of modding wouldn't be too much trouble.
  • Autobotika.Niko 3 years ago
    pretty cool...
    and how do you manage to anti-alias the openGL render?
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    You can set this manually withing Processing, but I have my graphics card overriding and doing anti aliasing by default on whatever app I run.
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  • Justin Helgerson 3 years ago
    What was this made for? What application runs the visualization?
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  • Howard Quin 3 years ago
    would be so incredible if these visuals were played in a concert with a full orchestra. modern fantasia ftw!
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    or as backdrop visuals to a real ballet :)
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  • Howard Quin 3 years ago
    sweet! would you want a more contemporary dancing style?
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    i prefer classical style actually, but i'd be open minded..
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  • Howard Quin 3 years ago
    interesting...
    i was thinking for instance, in a contemporary dance piece, the dancers would be moving with the same organic energy and mimicking the movement of the Zeno as accurately as possible. just a thought tho..
    Another thought (sorry about this) and a vastly vague one too; have u ever thought about integrating the zeno animation system with supercollider through OSC, thus making it into a musical intrument of some sort and not just a music visualiser?
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    i'm more of a film maker really, everything else is just a distraction!
  • Howard Quin 3 years ago
    hehe okay, i wish i had ur focus. my life is based on distractions :D
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  • godino 3 years ago
    Splendid!
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  • Martin Whipp 3 years ago
    Glenn,

    If I understand this correctly, you have "automatically" created something that Walt Disney would have given his right arm to create!

    Very nice work!
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    fantasia was an amazing journey through experimental and traditional narrative though. i'd be crap at doing dancing hippos.
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  • Dridge plus 3 years ago
    It's things like this that encourage me to learn the processing language. Great work!
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  • Phil Fried plus 3 years ago
    fantastic! great! awsome!
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  • Sergey Zeinalov 3 years ago
    Beautiful! Fantastic! Sweet! I such did not see yet!
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  • MonBlyan 3 years ago
    Sigur Ros is a beautiful muse;)
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  • kruzer 3 years ago
    I want one when you're ready market this thing :)
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  • eric cwiertny 3 years ago
    So easy to come back to... a quick "fix" to an otherwise stressful day. Still so VERY cool.
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  • Jonnee 3 years ago
    Absolute great work! I'm impressed.
    I want to start creating videos in progressing too. If someone knows german people who do progressing: Please send me a message! I need someone who explains it for me. Thx. :)
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  • sagaYago 3 years ago
    hi from spain

    really fantastic!

    i hope a similar with pink floyd and jean michel jarre music.
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  • Ayz Waraich plus 3 years ago
    that is amazing to watch.

    beautiful really.
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  • steve mckeown 3 years ago
    would really like to see this to a breaks act i am very good friends with called far too loud....

    ooooh it is gorgeous
  • Glenn Marshall 3 years ago
    shame it wasn't girls aloud :)
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  • steve mckeown 3 years ago
    i think they will be around longer than girls aloud!

    very talented

    google them..they are amazing live
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  • Dany Perez 3 years ago
    I love this! I sat there and enjoyed the whole thing. I would love to have this, if you release it or something.
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  • Matt Furedy 3 years ago
    Glenn, this is epic, congrats! I, too, would love to get my hands on this visualizer when its released. I would just let my coltrane run all night while i laid back, scotch in hand, and watched. fantastic. Thanks!
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  • BanX 3 years ago
    Pretty cool, I wonder if it can be made in real-time, hence integrating it with vlc for instance?
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  • Toorop 3 years ago
    The world's best
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  • Marcel Német 3 years ago
    Great colors, so vivid, but maybe I would somehow change zooming in and out, it seems little bit unnatural to me, maybe it would be nicer to zoom vith acceleration , not with constant speed.
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  • Tom Lowe pro 2 years ago
    really cool, man. god i would love to have visualization like this in any of my media players.
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  • Bliss7 2 years ago
    Even though the music not my genre preference for the most part..I thoroughly enjoyed your visual aspirations in this clip completely and the timing right on! Ooh-la-la.. and.. Ooh-la-la some more!! It's a goody! ;)
  • Glenn Marshall 2 years ago
    thanks :)
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  • Matt P. 2 years ago
    I think I may have just had a religious experience.
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  • PF Anderson 2 years ago
    Someone ported a copy of this over to YouTube. Was it you? youtube.com/watch?v=l8RGOAAqo-o Meanwhile, I would love to see this software tested with a few different algorithms. This one is delicious, tho, just ... yum.
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  • Jacques Alomo 2 years ago
    Great Clip! You got featured on the showreelarchive.com
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  • Johannes M. 2 years ago
    Really awesome, i just started learning the Processing language (with the book "Generative Gestaltung" / "generative shaping") and this video is an intense encouragement to carry on without stopping. Thx for it!
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  • karthi 2 years ago
    In onw word....Pretty awesome...post some more....
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  • Visual Delights 2 years ago
    Just soo great ! im inspired ! thanks soo much .. help me help me pleaseeeeeees . ! hahaha

    just read your comment about you would be no good at doing dancing hippo's , haha .. I think you would be ! ..
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  • Baris Koc 2 years ago
    amazing programming
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  • muslim 1 year ago
    very Beautiful
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  • thank you
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  • eewei 1 year ago
    Amazing. I would love to see info-graphics mapped to this with appropriate background music in context based on the subject. e.g. Flight of the bumble bee matched to the spend on arming the worlds's nations.
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  • pilatesaldapas 10 months ago
    Impresionante este juego de imagenes y musica, enhorabuena artista.
    Estas cosas agradan los sentidos al ser humano.
  • Glenn Marshall 10 months ago
    gracias :)
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  • masterfil 7 months ago
    love it love it love it, how can I see my music with this perfectly beautiful accompaniment.you are a master of visual......
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