OMG why are u such a genius?!?!

Great work! I really like the audio as well. It fit the visual. What software are you using to create this? If you don't mind me asking? Thanks for the inspiration!

We are the coolest machines!

Very cool and scientifically accurate!

I like. Great visuals and very interesting voice over.

computers ain't got nothing on the Human Brain! Good stuff.

Soooooo good!

very very neat. and i learnt! woop
good stuff

Cool! First of all i tought this is production, and it looks rather weird for 3D/compose soft. But for real time (maybe not real time render, but a real time work inside) it's great!!! I use v4, but i'm a novice still. Processing is cool of course. I think it is some kind of chemical reaction inside the soap bubble)

Very well done; impressive algorithm I assume coupled with a nice voice over. Keep it going!

Great work Robert. Can't wait to see it. Did you use C++ for this or have you kept it in Processing?

YES! I loooove radiolab. They do the most amazing podcasts.

awesome. fascinating.

yooo

bugaga...

What are you using to connect it to ambient sound? Jack?

Very very interesting

All but one comment has disappeared. Vimeo must be sorting some issues. I will try to answer the questions I have in my inbox.

UPDATE ---- As soon as I hit Post Comment, all the comments reappeared. Odd!

Firstly, thanks for the feedback and kind words!

Bryce: Its made with Processing (processing.org) and uses Amit Pitaru's audio analysis library Sonia, and Andrew Bell's convenience classes.

Syed: I use FFT on the incoming audio to get distinct frequencies. Each sphere 'listens' to a specific frequency and adjusts its mass and charge accordingly. There are also several thousand invisible particles who aid in coloring the sphere surface. I will likely write a blog post describing the process more thoroughly but it isn't that different from how I made the original piece. Read about it here: flight404.com/blog/?p=111

planete: It always seems to happen this way. I will start working on a piece, I will get it working at realtime fps, I decide to post a video and the best way for me to do that is to save out the frames one by one as it runs, which slows it down. So of course I think, "well, since it isn't rendering out in realtime, I might as well crank up the particle count and get more bang". I will probably shoot a video off the monitor to better show how it looks running realtime. Its not too different from this video, but much less haze effect.

James: Ended up staying with Processing. The next order of business, once this and Fuji are shipped, is to port both to Cinder/C++.

InsightVR: For the live version, using a USB microphone. For this rendering, I pulled the audio bit I wanted into the project and analyzed it 1/30th of a second at a time. For each of those blips, I save out the resulting image, then piece the images back together and paste in the original audio.

And now, the comments are gone again. Strange.

I'm seeing the same thing with the comments coming and going

Lovely. What are you using to create the visuals in terms of software?

It is thought-provoking things such as this video that makes my day. =)

I think I'll actually take a crack at Processing now.

Nice work on the audio, graphics, and code! You're work is very interesting and inspirational.

Vert gréât idea. I like it

great work, glad to see you pushing it in realtime.

as a suggestion for creating videos of realtime/gpu applications, you can capture DVI output at 720P or 1080i using a DVI-HDMI lead and another pc with a BlackMagic intensity card. The card is cheap, your output runs unencumbered, you get a lossless recording.

great.... i love it... amazing sound clips as well

This was awesome. Nice work

oooh, that is neat.

Congratulations man. Seriously. Just great.

halucinogenic!

Wicked. Thanks for the link to the discussion of the "original" Solar.

fantastic, very complete work. stunner. thanks for sharing.

Visually very impressive

That was really awesome.
Great scientific explanation.

I wish the video would have ended at 1:43 though.

This is tasty food for thought! Great Job!

Very nice and sweet video, really!

But does it somehow connected to a speech on background? Or is it just a fancy visualization to keep viewer's attention in?

Really beautiful work as usual!
Its a shame this isn't linux based, it's really easy to use pipes to link two applications and so send the pixels from GL to an encoder app like mencoder and do the recording in real time as well...
On a decent PC I can record 720p at 30Hz :)
That's how I've recorded a load of my vimeo clips.

Sounds a bit like Max Cohen in π, haha.