The Machine awakens. Don't make direct eye contact!
A dynamic, chaotic effect, using TTRI and VBANK to create a kaliedoscope and screen feedback effect that looks a bit like a cyber/organic eyeball.
It's a beast to tame. I don't think the version I entered hit the heights of some of the visuals I got when developing it... I got lost down the size-squeezing rabbit hole and lost sight of the result. Still, it's pretty close, and tinkering within this framework is very rewarding while you blast some music. I might release a Director's Cut if I find some good parameters again :)
Released at Lovebyte 2023
There are lots of numbers to mess around with in this one.
You could try:
- Changing the colour selection.
- Changing the way colour pixels are added to the kaliedoscope.
- Changing the way the kaliedoscope step size is chosen.
- Changing the size of the source texture triangle so that it maps onto the rendered triangle differently (affects how the colours bleed)
- Mixing in the amazing TIC-80 FFT hack
Beware: The video output is not very compression friendly, so it'll mash broadcast codecs and make large MP4 recordings, etc.
DO Get in touch and show me if you make anything! Contact details here