Austin Slominski (@aceslowman)

Tag: visuals

  • dazzlegen

    dazzlegen

    dazzlegen is a pattern generator. It can be used to generate unique, semi-random, glyph like patterns that can be used alone or as a source for other creative processes.

    Dazzlegen is free, browser based, and can be found at https://aceslowman.itch.io/dazzlegen

    dazzlegen works by recursively generating noise within a grid system, each layer affecting the offset of the next.

    In my own art I’ve used it extensively to generate interesting maps and sources of randomization. It started as a process patterns to be used in creating small prototype cloaks, but it quickly became a much more flexible and useful tool for other art I was working on. I’m currently working on some tools to sonify these patterns as well.

  • camogen

    camogen

    Camogen is a visual art tool that allows you to write visual effects using shaders, arrange and chain them together using a graph system, and tweak parameters on the fly using an automatically generated interface. Every parameter can be changed by hand or by a motion graph system, allowing you to drive parameters with oscillators, MIDI controllers, and more.

    It automatically generates an interface from shader code that can be tweaked, customized, and annotated, and each effect can be shared, remixed, and collected.

    camogen is browser based, free, and can be found at https://aceslowman.itch.io/camogen

    I’ve used camogen extensively in my own art, often combined with dazzlegen to create photo collages using photography I collect while hiking and traveling.

  • Flyback Transformer

    Flyback Transformer

    flyback transformer is an audiovisual piece created in 2020. The video follows a path through places I’ve lived reconstructed from memory. The audio for the piece consists of a recording I made of multiple CRT televisions, the mechanical sounds of VCRs, and incidental noises from a video game consoles.

    The 3D environments were created in MySweetHome3D, with additional video processing in Max/MSP, and all audio was sampled.