So far 95 hours of work has been put into Structure Synth, with 2/3 of the time spent coding, the rest of the time spent on design and web site creation.
Structure Synth is currently 4788 lines of C++ code (.h and .cpp files)
Jared Tarbell’s Complexification.net offers plenty of beautiful Processing-based art - most can be run directly from Java applets and have source code included.
By coincidence I came across Jeff Minter’s company Llamasoft and surprisingly discovered that it was still going strong.
Jeff Minter, probably most famous for his somewhat… surreal C64 games (”Attack of the Mutant Camels”, “Revenge of the Mutant Camels” and even “Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time”), apparently has been hacking away on light synthesizers for the past twenty years.
His light synthesizers are complex visualization modules either music-controlled or driven by human interaction. And his latest incarnation, Neon, is actually used in the Xbox 360’s dashboard.
The Neon Light Synthesizer in Action.
Who would have guessed that Llamasoft code would end up in the Xbox 360 firmware?
Of course the number of Structure Synth users is probably quite limited since no binaries have been released yet. I still plan to release the first windows executables in next month (Sep ‘07).
As a side note, Flickr is extremely nice and well-organized, even better than Picassa Web Albums. Looks like Yahoo actually win this one over Google.
