Pi Day: Hear and see approximations for Pi — and learn about shaders, too

Rebel against the anti-intellectual world around us! Forget the traumas of math classes past! Instead, enter a hypnotic trance as your screen vibrates and headphones ring with the sight and sound of Pi’s approximations. Our friends over at VDMX would like to introduce you to the wonders of … bad Pi.

Hungry maw of big data, dreamt as ghostly video for Dustin O’Halloran

Artist Owen Hindley, working in TouchDesigner, tackles the dense, pulsating track “Harmonic Dream Sequence” by Dustin O’Halloran (A Winged Victory For The Sullen). It’s a dark contemplation of the insatiable appetites of Big Data and AI, translated into strangely beautiful clouds of particles for an equally gorgeous track.

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2024

Resolume 7.19: Quick Search, workflow improvements, rotate text

Leading the live visual world, Resolume Arena/Avenue continues to keep up its brisk update cadence. This latest version lets you search for stuff Spotlight-style, speeds up workflow, and oh yeah, you can finally rotate text.

Peter Kirn - March 11, 2024