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  • 2022 gCRays

    2022 gCRays

    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.

  • 2023 Node Ribbons

    Over the New Year break, I experimented with geometry node spirals and sound design.

    The video loop was rendered in Blender EEVEE. The sound track was designed in Ardour, and probably a spagetti of connections with ZynAddSubFX via Patchance which does not save well in its entirety so I’m not that sure since the time when I worked on it.

  • 2022 astroturf green spaces

    2022 astroturf green spaces

    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.

  • 2025 prism 3

    2025 prism 3

    It’s a bit like the last ones, but with a more complex object, the icosphere.

  • 2024 More with prisms 

    Here are a few more renders of glass. The glass material shows a colour spectrum attempting to mimic a prism. Unfortunately there is a quirk.

    For each of the rainbow colours that we normally associate with a prism colour dispersion (red, orange, yellow, green, cyane, blue, and violet), I had to use a separate IOR (Index of Refraction). The problem is that a natural colour spectrum is continuous, rather than made of a set of seven colours, so it looks a bit different to what would normally be expected. The resulting effect is a bit hyperreal, but still fun.

  • 2023 Node City Sunset

    2023 Node City Sunset

    I found this cityscape that I designed earlier in 2023. It just needed a bit of work to set the mood and be able to get some decent images rendered.

  • Hello world!

    Hello world!

    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.