Tinkering - CPS - Week 2

By Sahaj Garg

Tinckering!!!!!!!! 

Theme: This weeks theme at CPS is tinckering. Tinckering as method is fascinating as it emerges from chaos and not having that final goal, though I cant help but to visual somewhere what I wanna achieve, I guess that'll just be a starting point and keep on building and cutting on it to find the symmetry out of choas!

Context: 

I wanted to just open up C4d and try how to generate abstract movement/animations through code, 

Previously looked at works of  entagma https://vimeo.com/entagmawhile , they create some cool animations which are driven by code , googling for the same I came across the idea of animation through sound.

I can relate coding animations in Unity and cool visuals in c4d, though have never created animation through code in c4d, also c4d uses python which i haven't tried on!...

Method:

I'll open up C4D and try to create random movement through code, and then keep applying c4d's subdivisions, tools on layers upon layers to create abstract animated movements. Then : 

if (time)

      {I'll add sound to that movement, and drive shape morph through music's frequency }



 

Response: just building on building and layering stuff upon stuffs, I didn't know where to stop! I got hints on it when my computer started to crash in between. The code is not working how i imagined it to be, the scene is not at all how i thought how it would be, because I didn't try to to stick to that vision but I discovered tinkering right here, It's not working how I imagined it to be but surely reached a very new and cool stage. { I couldn't stop till im happy with it.} .  

I was able to reach a very good stage but it's been 2days (40 hours 24 minutes) and it's not able to render even one frame  (( In this stage all bubbles blend with each other (image attahced) )) so I had to settle with one stage below(only small and big bubble iteract and merge with each other) .
Though I learnt how to team render using the whole studio(7 macs on team render), still couldn't render 1 frame with the final stage! 

The response below is the outcome (a step below ^) , The movement is somewhat driven randomly by visual coding using xpresso in C4D. and influenced by sound input. 




Making >>>>>
 

000sz - Tinckering Bubbles (making) from Sahaj Garg on Vimeo.


Output>>         sound on
 

Bubble Tinkered from Sahaj Garg on Vimeo.

“WHAT WE ARE IS LOOP IN OURSELVES IN Making -  Chris Barker“