Metal on macOS excels at live visuals; try a free Gaussian splat tool

Developer Anton Marini, aka vade, is bringing back the legacy of Quartz Composer and proving Apple’s visual APIs are ready for real-time. Have a look—and watch what you can do with 3D Gaussian splats (if you know you know).

pulu: free Novation Nocturn resurrection, Mac OS 9 livecoding, happy jams!

Miranda (aka pulu) Finnish electronic artist and livecoder, is doing the archaic things others won’t. That includes bringing your Novation Nocturn back from the dead, using ancient versions of SuperCollider on iBooks and Mac OS 9, and sharing some truly happy jams.

Peter Kirn - August 8, 2024

Free ChucK sound coding is now in Unreal Engine – and it’s a big deal

What happens when ChucK, the free elegant and fast sound coding environment, comes to Unreal Engine, the free-for-most-users game engine that’s also a motion graphics and live audiovisual tool? Nerdy magic, that’s what — a reason to turn off your phone alerts and hide and make the immersive AV world of your dreams. Or pretend you’re a Stanford student. It’s … Chunreal!

Peter Kirn - April 2, 2024

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