particles system
Some results of experiments with Kineme particles tools ! Incredibly reactive and smooth. [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] It handles some forces such gravity, wind and something like viscosity. Collision are supported too, with 3D object especially… here are a simple .app (thanks [...]
Game Of Life
Hard to be innovating with such software… but “emergent properties” is a fascinating subject for me. It was also a good training for me to develop it with Cocoa. V01 implement the original rules of Conway’s Game of Life. V05 uses “Half-Life” rules which lead to auto-replicating patterns. try the following starting pattern ! [...]
Robot Arm
Hello all ! This is my 8 axes robot arm ! It is mechanized with 8 basic RC servos, driven by an Arduino which receives its orders from a graphic inverse kinematics arm simulator in Quartz Composer. (see capture) The inverse kinematics works only on the three longitudinal axes (2D only yet…) but there [...]
LED matrix
Driven by an Arduino, this 4×5 multiplexed high-luminosity LED matrix displays letters, digits and signs. It needs only 2 wires + supply to work with it’s built-in 8bits shift-register. A simple lens projects a image.The Arduino can display letters sequentially to compose words and send a steps sequence “just in time” to a stepper. [...]
CNC drawing/cutting machine
There is my CNC machine (work in progess). It has 4 axes (X,Y,Z and tangential control of the blade). I use very the very good Arcsoft Mach3 CNC software on a PC. The stepper-motor driver (2A per phase max.) receives datas from the parallel port. The working space is around A3. [ Javascript required to view [...]
Human Brush
Performance de calligraphie lumineuse conçue et réalisée par : BONOM : dessin et chorégraphie BUNEX-INDUSTRIES : dispositif vidéo / Quartz Composition CA CA CA : mise en scène, textes et citations TZII + GMAKRR + B. VALVIDIA : création sonore originale Ce spectacle a été donné dans le cadre de KunstenFestivalDesArts au Théâtre Royal Flamand (KVS) à Bruxelles le 8 mai [...]
DIY rubber controller
This is very cheap and simple way to make a rubber-controller. The resistive carbon strip is made of adhesive paper strongly colored with a big graphite pencil. Fix the strip on a table. Mark the paper with high pressure and smooth it with a piece of tissue. Cut it clean to get a 6-8mm [...]
electro-myography
This is a classic implementation of INA 118 precision differential amplifier. It provides a very high gain with high signal/noise ratio. This kind of device is used in Electro-Cardiogramms, Electro-Myogramms and Electro-encephalogramms (ECG, EMG, EEG) The signal go through the Arduino’s built-in analog-to-digital converter and passed to Quartz Composer for visual monitoring and MIDI note [...]
QC Flight Game
First composed on 10.5, I’ve fixed it to work on 10.6. It is inspired from “Sky-Chase”, an Atari “one to one plane fight game”. Left click = fire Y scroll = speed You must shoot the red cube and avoid buildings and ground try to escape for a trip in orbit around the stars ! [...]
gear system generator
Here is a cool Quartz Composer gear system generator. All gears are programmatically drawn and teeth number can be dynamically changed as well as offset angles. The chain of patchs in the editor shows the gear tree. You can easily add or remove elements. here is a link to download it : http://www.bunex-industries.com/filesToDownload/engrenages.qtz (right-click to download, [...]