SourceBinder is an open source project by Visual MINDS and is currently in private alpha stage. While waiting for your invitation, take a look at our former project, FlashFilterLab.com.
Our former most favourite toy, FlashFilterLab won the famous rubber arrow in the category application on the FlashForward festival in San Franciso. We were quite surprized when we read the news. Unfortunately no one could make it from us this year to Frisco, but i hope we will be there next year with binder too, cause like one of our mates said: if people like FlashFilterLab, they will go crazy about Binder. I really hope so. So as a tribute let me just put the trailer video of FFL here. Have fun!
This composition is so fun to play with, we will definitely make a directed movie out of it as soon as we get some dancer move for us again. This cut was done in 2005 for a little experimental movie we have done with flashfilterlab. I will publish a link to the video as soon as i find it.
usage:mouse moves the camera, scroll wheel moves the dancer front/back
Dear visitor, take this long chain made out of particles and try to tie a knot on it. The first who succeeds gets a free sourcebinder invitation immediately. Screen shots can be sent by email to our address.
The vertical mouse movement drives the amplitude of a low frequency oscillator (LFO) applied to the chain. The values coming from the LFO are used as an input for a queue wich defines the particle arrays particle position.
We are sorry to inform all of you who applied for alpha invitation ( from 04.08 to 12.08 ), that due to human error your email addresses were lost. Please use link below, to check if you are still registered. You can apply for the alpha again where you did last time ( and we promise to keep your email addresses this time )
Here are two creative compositions, that were made in collaboration by our very first sourcbinder alpha users. The first one uses PV3D particles and the bitmap effect layer to create a “3d-blurred” dizzy particle field. The second uses sound3d to play and transform mp3 sound in space and a sound spectrum node with a cube array to visualize the sound.
Making a carpet out of a simple plane is not as difficult as it seems. Just drive the plane through a modifier node and use an image stream as the modifier source. A video or the webcam footage will be perfect. The modifier node displaces the vertices by an offset calculated from the corresponding the pixel values of the mapped source image. The best result can be achieved with a white background and a dark object. Alternately you could also use an interactive sprite and convert it to a bitmap. If you have a webcam and you are in a bright room you have to check out the second composition.
I was so excited about And Zupko’s work with the new Papervision effect branch, i just had to give it a try in SourceBinder. You can try the compositions and play with the setting as usual (from now on) in explore mode. If you have a webcam you should connect the MovieMaterial node to the Sphere in the first composition. You can do that either by Alt clicking the MovieMaterial node and droping the line on the Sphere node or with the output connector of the same node. SourceBinder will aply the connection automaticaly on the material input of the sphere, because of its type. Have fun!
While we are are still preparing for a public alpha we just decided to let our nice visitors also play with some composition. So we made an explore mode for SourceBinder which in fact is the environment but with only two features enabled: binding and adjusting. Be sure to doulbe click on one of the nodes in the compositions and try to play with the atribute values and of course watch the result in realtime.
Take a video from a dancer, cut off the background with a threshold node, put every frame on a plane into a 3d space and there you go! The same works with the webcam as well, asumed you have a solid background. Driving the whole thing with the wiimote you get some pretty cool stuff. Click on the image for a video showing the composition with a wiimote.
Here is a video that shows the process of making a basic physics simulation in SourceBinder. In the simulation, 60 spheres are bouncing on a plane. The plane’s rotation is driven by the pitch and roll values of a wiimote. The physic simulation is done with the great WOW phisics engine, for the 3d rendering we used Papervision3D primitves and the Wiimote handling is done with WiiFlash. Click on the image to watch the video.
This video tutorial shows how Binder can be used to create a Flash movie with 3d objects (using Papervision) and regular Flash stuff, like perlin noise and glow filter mixed together.
The big screenshot pictures the featured demo composition of a globe put in some wierd space. The screenshots underneath were made of a basic physics composition which uses the WOW physics engine and the Papervision library to display the objects.
SourceBinder’s first public presentation was held in Stuttgart at the Flashconference by Balázs Serényi head of Visual MINDS and founder of SourceBinder. The whole conference was a stunning, well organized event. Big thanks goes to Wolfgang Schmidt-Sichermann for making it possible for us to be there. And another big-big thank goes to the great guys who were absolutely inspiring, enthusiastic and supporting. So, here’s the unofficial Thank you list: Mario Klingemann aka Quasimondo, Marcel Fahle from Slot3, Carlo Blatz from Powerflasher, Jonathan Coe, Sebastian Locker and Patrick Thiel.
More info and the video about the presentation can be found under the following links:
FlashFilterLab won at FlashForward Film Festival!
