Ludic Spaces

 Continuing to explore novel inputs for visuals - this is using an Xbox Wireless Controller... This was the intial test - using MJoy and LoopMidi to create the midi remapping from the joystick to be picked up as a midi device in Tooll3. The only limitation with MJoy - is that the window needs to be active to be sending an output... This next version is using the gamepad to change a fractal image - which is used to drive a ImagetoPoint operator in tool - as the starting point of the further repeats to make a 'nebula' type visual - that is controlled by both joysticks... The Graph Layout in Tool... Using MJoy - 1. setup up the joystick axis / button , and a unique midi control/note 2. Click the + to add this to your mapping of controls. Repeat...

Using  Offworld's Streaming plugins  for Unreal, set up a spout receiver in unreal, to pick up the steam from Tooll using their spout output. Setting the unreal spout receiver to a render texture and using this in a custom masked material, adds the transparency and blend extra colours. To reduce the lag, Tooll was outputting 1024x1024px image as RGBA8bit.

The quick setup of Tooll3, inspires creative play to think of ways to interface interactively with Visuals. As i get to learn the software, it's good to get old devices out and think about their potential. Great to see that my Leapmotion v1, that's been stuck in a box for years still works a treat. In this test , using Geco  which converts Leapmotion camera into gestures that can be outputted as Midi and LoopMidi to create a midi port to connect some outputs that can be picked up and trained in Tooll , to manipulate a realtime cube. Another exploration was following on with NDI outputs/inputs - this time from ComfyUI  with a custom NDI node to send a texture to Tooll3 - to explore a setup for GenerativeAI images used in Tooll3. With each nudge forward, keeping thoughts to how to virutally puppeteer content in the future.