ISF’s visual magic for Metal and macOS is now open source

Interactive Shader Format (ISF) code for working with Metal and rendering on macOS, plus an underlying Metal framework that powers live visual app VDMX6, are now free and open source. That’s great news even if you’re just toying around with shaders or working with visuals, as it opens up lots of possibilities to come.

Music Thing Modular Workshop System gets its own advent calendar

Out: tiny milk chocolates. In: delicious Program Card code creations for the Music Thing Computer in the Workshop System. It’s a beautiful story of what happens when a small, focused community goes all in on an idea.

Peter Kirn - December 16, 2024

Play around with miniature, interactive Rooms – now with Actions

Need to escape for a while? Rooms is a delightful set of miniature interactive voxel worlds that can be toys or games, all living for free in the browser (or iOS app). In version 3.0, Rooms adds interactive actions in addition to coding.

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2024

Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch, hack, code, mic, jack in

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2024

Nintendo DS as ultra-portable generative source, with homebrew and Lua

Peter Kirn - September 16, 2024

Squiggy’s WaveTracker: open-source tracker – and other free tools

Peter Kirn - September 5, 2024

Chill out to some granular goodness in Modular Play on Playdate portable

Peter Kirn - December 28, 2023

Valdivia, Chile to Tampere, Finland, a livecoding Solstice is on right now

Peter Kirn - December 22, 2023

Finally, a silly synth so small you could swallow it (but please don’t)

Peter Kirn - December 19, 2023

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