Still image from HOLD ON music video by Holon.

cables.gl, music-friendly 3D browser visuals, now in free public beta

Interactive visuals in the browser now make stunning eye candy live that used to require whole server farms to render. cables.gl – now in a free open beta – lets you harness that, without even knowing how to code. cables.gl is a dataflow (visual patching) development environment that runs entirely in the browser – using […]

How to patch 3D visuals in browser from Ableton Live, more with cables.gl

Now, even your browser can produce elaborate, production-grade eye candy using just some Ableton Live MIDI clock. The question of how to generate visuals to go with music starts to get more and more interesting answers.

Peter Kirn - July 8, 2019

Magical 3D visuals, patched together with wires in browser: Cables.gl

The latest visual tool to use dataflow patching with virtual wires is here. Cables.gl is free for now, with an accelerated 3D engine powered by Web standards, and some unique tricks up its sleeve. Resident visual expert Ted Pallas gives us a first look.

Ted Pallas - January 31, 2019

‘Gaze’ is a surreal, face-melting AV mirror for your browser

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2016

Plaid’s Tether is an Interactive Web Song You Can Remix – Music, or Code

- May 5, 2014

A Building-Sized Net as Canvas, Overlaid with Light Paintings from Mobile Phones

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2014

With ‘This Exquisite Forest,’ Animations That Evolve, Collaboratively

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2012

With 'This Exquisite Forest,' Animations That Evolve, Collaboratively

Peter Kirn - July 19, 2012

Geometric Reactive Audio Visualizations, Now Live in the Browser; How it was Done

Peter Kirn - January 23, 2012

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