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This is the HD and finished version of my video 'Music Is Math'. I just let the program run till the end of the music, I felt reluctant to interfere too much by trying to sculpt an ending, and just let the code run its own natural course.
Music by Boards of Canada. Animation created with the Processing language, further info on my website butterfly.ie

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  • lukasz plus 1 year ago
    that is stunning! well done.
    i was just trying to work out how the visuals react to the sound, its very subtle and probably why it works so well with that track...
    yeh endings are always tricky... i felt like everything should have slowed down to match the fade in the music
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  • twgonzalez 1 year ago
    Wow! Now I just need to figure out how to get this to play on my AppleTV so I can watch it on a 52" screen.
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  • James Lewin 1 year ago
    Glenn - Very impressive video, and nicely married to the music.

    FYI - I put a link to this over at Synthtopia:
    synthtopia.com/content/2008/08/24/music-is-math-final-hd-version/
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  • Mark Coleran plus 1 year ago
    Just beautiful!
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  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    Thanks for the comments and links :) Time to move forward with it now and do something new.
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  • Gabriel Shalom plus 1 year ago
    very beautiful! what program did you use to make this?
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  • Mark Regan 1 year ago
    Excellent.. I love it.. What program did you use?
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  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    lol, I made my own 'program' to make it - glennmarshall.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/the-zeno/
    using Processing - processing.org/
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  • Nick Pettit 1 year ago
    I love the Internet. There's a lot of crap, but if you look hard enough, you can find beautiful gems, like this one.
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  • Fjamming 1 year ago
    Fantastic work!
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  • Tarynn Witten 1 year ago
    I posted these to my channel and group called Art and Science. I am very interested in the interface and inspiration of the two areas smashup
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  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    well art & science were my favourite subjects at school ;)
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  • godino 1 year ago
    Stunning and very bbbeautiful creation!
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  • Anthony Meadows plus 1 year ago
    very impressive
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  • annaka 1 year ago
    wow..magical!
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  • visual-hybrid plus 1 year ago
    stunning.. the end fits perfectly
    just when I think I'm on to something clever, people like you make me realise creativity has no ceiling.. nice work man
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  • David Langford 1 year ago
    This is fantastic. Inspires me to work harder now :)
    I'm very interested in the smoke, it looks like the main line creates it, but not right next to it. Very cool
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  • Rodger M. Nugent 1 year ago
    what kind of language did you use to build that ?
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  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    I used Processing - a Java based language - processing.org
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  • Lanvideosource 1 year ago
    Excellent work!
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  • Brandt Hughes 1 year ago
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    Wow, that was an absolute joy.

    One little tidbit of cc, I felt that the end should progressed out, an inverse of the beginning so to speak. I just thought that would have been more fitting, but really that's a very minor issue. Brilliant stuff man!
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  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    Thanks, I actually agree with you, but I was in a dilemma, and opted for the 'open ending', and thought it was interesting how perception connecting the sound with the image changes as the music disintegrates at the end, yet the visuals remain doing the exact same thing.
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  • panic embryo 1 year ago
    stunning
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  • dynovinyl 1 year ago
    I actually liked the end and that it keeps going after the music is gone and presumably continuing after we fade to black. Because of it's organic feel and ivy-like look, it's kind of like you've created this living monster that's grown beyond you or your ability to stop it. Wait, did I just write the treatment to Frankenstein?
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  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    It's alive!
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  • Vitor Peres 1 year ago
    It's stuff like this that makes me want to learn processing -- even though I know I wouldn't probably reach this level of refinement and beauty. Keep gracing us with your excellent work.
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  • michael baca plus 1 year ago
    awesome man. wow
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  • Jaron Lopez 1 year ago
    that is amazing,
    what did you use to make the sound?
    Really dope
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  • Mitch 1 year ago
    Wow!
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  • Stephen Blacker plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic - I love this track, nice to see such a sweet visual to go with it. I'm going to have to check out this "processing" you speak of... ;-)
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  • Ashton Silva 1 year ago
    That's amazing! can some one tell me how to do this?
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  • Prakash 1 year ago
    Nice
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  • sir choc 1 year ago
    this is beautiful! i can get high off of watching this...lol
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  • Andy Stokes plus 1 year ago
    So I downloaded Processing, brought 3 books on it and intend to start experimenting. Not sure if i'll ever make it to your level, but who knows.

    Just wondering, how long have you been using processing and what other background you have?

    I really aspire to one day being able to get to the level of building something this beautiful. Excellent piece. Keep up the great work. Very inspirational.
  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    thanks, it's a lot to do with how much effort and time you put into it all, i've been learning processing for about 6 months now, half of which has been full time learning/programming, the other half doing freelance/commercial work for my income.
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  • massta 1 year ago
    I like your newer movie, this one is cool but the camera moves too fast. Better to have a lag or drag on it's translation. Still very cool.
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  • MeSuAx 1 year ago
    AMAZING! the music is great too.
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  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    1280 x 720 yes,
    i exported a jpg sequence and created a quicktime with sorenson 3 codec.
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  • exhocet 1 year ago
    Great music and nice growing vid
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  • Dragoljub Ćurčić 1 year ago
    Very nice. Good work!
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  • marco 1 year ago
    Why dont you give credit to "Boards Of Canada"?
  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    this was the final result from the initial 'unfinished' video I uploaded were I credited BoC - so it's been a continous blog/thread, and you're just catching the end of it here. The original video is on this page if you scroll down. I've changed the description here also.
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  • Shihan Qu 1 year ago
    You've made no mention of Boards of Canada. The visualization would not be as spectacular without the epic music. "my video" should be "my video to Board of Canada"
  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    this was the final result from the initial 'unfinished' video I uploaded were I credited BoC - so it's been a continous blog/thread, and you're just catching the end of it here. The original video is on this page if you scroll down. I've changed the description here also.
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  • Minglle 1 year ago
    Thats very neat. I'm a beginner at processing, so I know how hard this was to make.

    Did you code all of that, or does it do it all automatically?
  • Glenn Marshall 1 year ago
    erm..... both!
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  • mahmoudb 1 year ago
    soothing animation , great mate
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  • pixtur 1 year ago
    very cool!
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  • Kloz 1 year ago
    okey...that's it...i am gonna download pd / vvvv / processing and go nuts !!!

    thanks for the inspiration.

    best of luck !!!
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  • Vinz 1 year ago
    very organic, very smooth, I like it a lot
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  • Ryan Wallace 1 year ago
    Just fabulous....quite amazing really.
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  • Eduardo Risi 1 year ago
    WOW!!! Great work!!!
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  • stahlwerk 11 months ago
    i just remixes it on an party. i told the title,
    so it was more like a song that i played.
    but cool,
    did you ever eat some vegetables what are like fractals?
    like brokoli.

    greets
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  • Jaxan 10 months ago
    I think you're wrong, math is music and not visa versa.
    How do the two lines stick together? (great music btw)
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  • Jonathan Harris 9 months ago
    awesome
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  • Alec Julias 9 months ago
    sperm.

    lol, great job, I think ANY tween would perfect all these processing vids
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  • Athanasios Paschalides 9 months ago
    I recently embed this video on my blog,
    and all of a sudden it was not playing.

    What i did wrong?

    Pretty damn nice work though
  • Glenn Marshall 9 months ago
    vimeo are having some probs at the minute :(
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  • Genevieve White 4 months ago
    beautiful
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  • Josh Eckberg 2 months ago
    amazing
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  • julien servy 2 months ago
    great, bravo!
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  • soulstress existence 2 months ago
    Boards of canada ! Brilliant choice of music and grt piece of work:)
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