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Lucinate video synth animates and live-codes visuals on Mac and iOS
From the makers of the utterly indispensable iPad app AUM (among other things), Lucinate is a real-time visual environment for macOS and iOS, based on Apple’s Metal technology. You can approach this as a ready-to-play, Ableton Link and Link Audio-enabled video synth. And when you want to hack or make your own shaders, you can live-code those, too.
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VDMX 6.3 adds expressions, plugin templates to beloved Mac visual tool
Here’s another live visual icon with some welcome updates. Vidvox promised lots of quality-of-life refinements with VDMX6 as a platform, and VDMX6.3 adds just that. So it’s a good excuse to mention VDMX again, in case you’d tuned out for a bit.
TouchDesigner POPs course gets your brain around geometry for visuals
In a world that’s definitely trying to make us dumber and more depressed, let’s grow our brains instead. Our friends over at Derivative have a free course that finally makes it easy to start working with POPs — the Point OPerators that enable all that wild 3D geometry you see in live shows and installations.
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