I’m making this tool for people to have the intense or highly Zen experience of controlling their own emergent pattern machine, which will very much produce fractalish images almost as a game.
https://github.com/splashkes/crutchfield-machine/releases
Versions live now for MacOS Windows Linux.
I’m having trouble putting it down and will surely keep adding features so let me know if you want to see anything.
I probably have over 3000 hours into video feedback loops. This is going back 15+ years, starting with just a camera pointing at a screen and going all the way through the favourite tools, including Roland V4, multiple projection, mapping approaches, and a lot of live performance.
I’ve studied the papers by Crutchfield and Valuska (1984) and more.
So, while I will always love and prefer having analog in the loop; I thought it would be fun to build as close to a bare metal c++ loop simulator as I could manage and the results turned out way better than I expected.
I will share some videos soon, but here are a few stills and a link to github repo with versions for both macOS and Windows. Feel free to use the prepackaged releases or compile your own.
It’s very easy to work with via AI, it has all the background context needed.
Please feel free to request shaders and layers either here or via github.
Cheers you crazy video wizards
https://github.com/splashkes/crutchfield-machine/releases/tag/v0.1.0
https://github.com/splashkes/crutchfield-machine/releases/tag/v0.1.2-macos
Ideas, requests, critique appreciated.