Resolume 7.28 uses vision to let you play with intelligent live effects and blends

Take a break from the surveillance nightmare around us for computer vision that’s local, not online, and doing creative, artistic things, instead. Resolume 7.28 adds some powerful Wire nodes and new effects and blends, all powered by vision. Yep, Resolume’s removing your backgrounds, segmenting your humans, estimating depth — and it’s good, clean fun.

Optical analog video feedback in a massive, rotating 4K machine

It’s digitally controlled optical goodness: a humble Teensy translates analog knob turns into control of 4K displays, all built into beautiful mahogany enclosures and giant cranks. The result: elegant, precise fractals blossom out of 4K displays by literally tweaking the knobs on the units. Behold, The Light Herder!

Peter Kirn - August 31, 2026

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.

Peter Kirn - August 28, 2026