zParticle - Realtime 3D Particle Clouds from Static Images

zParticle is an app that converts arbitrary images into 3d particle clouds. It runs in the browser and leverages three.js along with some basic shader code. The z-coordinate of each point is based on the corresponding pixel color from the source image. With a decent GPU, it can render at least 10 million points at 60fps right in your browser. If the framerate is low, increase the “pixel skip” value to reduce the number of points rendered on screen. Check it out:

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A look at Harmonic Resonance found in Polar Equations

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Absurd Music Visualizations

I’ve begun a series of audio reactive music visualizations. They look like this:

Each entry uses audio data to help inform procedurally generated visuals in different (and hopefully novel) ways. Most computational artwork relies heavily on elements of randomness, such as perlin noise. I find that sampling audio data is a nice form of structured randomness. I hope you enjoy my synesthesia playground.

If you’re interested in collaborating lemme know!

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