Beautiful Generative Computer Art - Metamorphosis

Glenn Marshall has released his finished version of Metamorphosis, a beautiful piece of computer generative art programmed in Processing. I wish I knew a bit more about what I was seeing, but I can only guess that the branches and butterflies follow certain laws of nature and rules defined by the music (I hope). Nevertheless, it's beautiful. Here's the video below, but go to Vimeo to watch the video in all it's HD glory.

Metamorphosis is a followup to Marshall's first video - Music is Math, which is equally beautiful:

[via migurski]

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Comments

Andreas
Sep 23, 2008, 7:10 pm

Beautiful! I really wish I had some more insight on how these are created. My briefs jaunts with processing are simple (move boxes around) I just think I’m missing a bridge somewhere. Anyone have example code for making music detection (beat detection, etc.) visualization with Processing?

Nathan
Sep 24, 2008, 1:29 am

@Andreas - for starters, you should check out the Processing libraries available:

http://processing.org/referenc.....index.html

Take a look at the sound section.

Andreas
Sep 24, 2008, 7:15 am

Looks like Minim might be a good place to start… thanks again.

Johnny Logic
Sep 26, 2008, 4:54 pm

Of of the top of my head, this looks like a variant of Lindenmayer systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

L-systems are a fun subject where fractals, linguistics, and computer science meet.

In any case these are breathtaking visualizations.