Category: ig

A few weeks ago I was using Blender API bpy code to help me create some interesting curved lines. The Lorenz Attractor was a satisfying quick win and served as a proof of concept for creating more complex objects.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wiki+lorenz+attractor

After generating a curve with default parameters, the next relatively quick win was creating video showing what it would look like to go on a ride of it, because why not?!

The Lorenz Attractor as a ride:

The Lorenz Attractor curve with basic parameters:

The Lorenz Attractor curve with dynamic parameters:

The Lorenz Attractor with artistic license:

After quite a bit more work at getting the visual complexity just right, I managed to turn this project into a collection of images available as a product:

This is another revisit of the Lineseed idea (starting in 2022 and earlier). Lineseed features bold black lines over a white background. The eight images here are keyframes from a short video loop of a flight through the generator object.

This Lineseed revisit is probably my most efficient generator idea of this sort. Each line source is a mostly round icosphere with 42 corners, and a line particle emitted from each corner. Those icospheres are in turn emitted by a larger icosphere. The result is a lot of black lines that emerge into a symmetrical pattern. Both, the small and the big icospheres operate with parameters, so everything in the scene can be experimented on by changing numerical values. The generated outcome is limited by available time and compute power. The only manual design in this scene is the camera placement, but even that was limited to a simple movement along a single axis.

This is the IGSIFY 2025 reboot!

IGSIFY images are mostly abstract and vague. They can be transformed without compromising their essence. It may not matter how you stretch, flip, layer, or remix them. For these reasons they make ideal backgrounds for promotional collateral or decorating.

Blender geometry nodes make generating arrays of objects relatively quick. Compositing nodes add that extra wow to the whole scene. Applying both make generating colourful video clips a breeze.

This was an experiment in generating a simplified scape from cubes. As the project developed it ended up looking like a street scape.

The aha moment was adding a variation to the monotony, by way of a rainbow mimicking central intersection. Incidentally, I would have borrowed the idea from something I had seen.