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Metamorphosis is programmed entirely in Processing, it’s the follow up to my Music is Math video. I developed my ‘zeno’ animation system a bit more to allow for nebulous additive blending as well as a few other things. The music is by Boards of Canada again - the track ‘Corsair’ from the Geogaddi album. Further info on this video at butterfly.ie

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Rui Madeira 1 year ago

whoa!!! really cool. beautiful atmosphere, i'm really impressed :)
Tereza Vieira 1 year ago

Ola Rui!!!
Tudo bem???
Tereza @ Full Sail
art donovan 10 months ago

Stunningly Beautiful Work!!!
Memo Akten 1 year ago

nice... looking forward to the HD version :P
twgonzalez 1 year ago

Glenn, you must stop the insanity! Your processing work is just amazing and so humbling to the rest of us :) I love the addition of color, although I think the Music is Math soundtrack flowed better with the visuals... gave it a much different feel. Great job on the nebula effects etc. BTW, how long does it take for you to render this?
vanderlin 1 year ago

unreal
Brett Russell Dougherty 1 year ago

deeply woot. way to effing go, you've mesmerized me.
Jason Drakeford 1 year ago

Very very cool... what type of processing application did you use? I use after effects alot but never attempted anything this epic !
Douwe van der Werf 1 year ago

Processing is the name of the program itself and it can be found here > processing.org/learning/books/
batuhan 1 year ago

Top quality stuff. Great! The changing camera angles add interest especially towards the end but I expected a bit of more variety throughout. But then you'd need to change the music. So I guess its the "artists choice".

Will we get to see the sources? :)
Lance 1 year ago

outstanding.
RogerB1 1 year ago

SOOOO well done! thanks for posting. :o)
I saved it.
fDevant 1 year ago

Awesome :)
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

Thanks folks, answers to questions,

- it took about 4 hours to render at HD
- was made entirely using processing.org
- i could have tweaked it manually to make it more intersting, but i like the fact it's 100% generative
- i can just about understand my own source code, let alone others, i'm still a noob programmer believe it or not.
SBTLs 1 year ago

this was AMAZING! i'm really into video editing and i think making something like this would be a huge step forward for me. i downloaded processing...but i know virtually nothing about programming -_-' by any chance would you know a website or something where i could learn how to program? that would help me out alot! thank you
gajorro 1 year ago

Love BoC and love this vid. I haven't heard about processing but it looks very interesting. I must check it.
Santi Trujillo 1 year ago

Beautiful
Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure my heart imploded while watching this.

big upps for using the BoC track.
Blake Whitman 1 year ago

thank you.
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

thank you vimeo!
Smog Films 1 year ago

captivating, Great music choice too :)
John Callaghan 1 year ago

wow, amazing
Ammonite 1 year ago

Very cool. I really can't imagine how you can get processing to create this. Good choice again with BOC music. The camera work is great if thats what I can call it? I still like the relative simplicity of Music is maths though.
J-tec 1 year ago

Wow, stunning! just absolutley amazing
LVX 1313 1 year ago

::love::ly
Matt 1 year ago

you better go ahead with your bad self,
cool!
Handsome Panda 1 year ago

wow. I've been thinking about trying out processing...this just might get me going.
Steve Beck 1 year ago

Wow!! Completely spellbinding. Give yourself a pat on the back!

+Like
Cinema Resistance 1 year ago

Good
Hache 1 year ago

Hey that really is a nice job, but I see that all your videos are about the tchnical acomplishment you achieve .. and they are great ... but I think you should try telling a story uing all these tools you've learned how to use.

Don't get me wrong I like this a lot, but I cant help thinking that it would be fantastic to ue this knowledge in order to create some kind of animated short .. hope you do it someday.
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

i have a whole backlog of animated shorts i'll be uploading to vimeo as time goes by...
Hache 1 year ago

Sorry my bad .. you already have ... NICE
MUSCLEBEAVER 1 year ago

Beautiful !!
Brian Boudreau 1 year ago

incredible visuals!!
Mark Kammel 1 year ago

mezmorizing
OAK CREEK FALLS 1 year ago

Nice. I'd like to see this on a full sized movie screen.
Peter Kirn 1 year ago

Spectacular stuff. It's fantastic to see someone take Processing in a different direction and really extend its range. I'd love to hear more about this.
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

thanks, check the blog butterfly.ie
Daniel Hayek 1 year ago

lovely, like following thoughts in a dream
Anthony Meadows 1 year ago

Literally breathtaking. In the words of Tim and Eric, "Great Job!"
Chris Paez 1 year ago

Ya i definitely want to know how long this took to render also & the specs for your computer.
Michael Lander 1 year ago

It certainly looks cool. Is the audio actually being used to generate the visuals? If it is, I couldn't really find a link between them.
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

no, visuals independent of audio, i try to let the viewer make connections themselves.
Michael Lander 1 year ago

That's cool too. Would it be possible to do something that got generated from audio? I'm thinking of downloading processing and mucking around with it. Actually, I did download it, but then I discovered I needed the java SDK and not just a java vm. XD

/me wears giant, bright red dunce cap.
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

flight404.com is the master chief of audio reaction...
Michael Lander 1 year ago

Yeah, a friend introduced me to some of his stuff. :O
Thank you also.
Edmond Boateng 1 year ago

is it after affects that you used to crate this
Edmond Boateng 1 year ago

oops sorry did not read
Steven Goodheart 1 year ago

Incredibly beautiful and enchanting. Thanks for creating and sharing such beauty with the world.
mike ambs ☂ 1 year ago

Loved this. Seriously. And I'm downloading the BoC now ;)
HG10 Mania 1 year ago

like a dream
Navdeep 1 year ago

that was like an infinite loop... just amazing
Kirsten Mireille Middleton 1 year ago

Stunning! And I think the soundtrack works really well - rather meditative... thanks for posting.

Peace :)
gnomalab 1 year ago

impressionante trabajo con processing!! :-)
Dreamtime Film 1 year ago

Inspirational
Wolfgang Gaebler 1 year ago

Impressive!
Ferenc Takacs 1 year ago

The best thing in the computer is the fact that you can visualize your feelings as they are. You don't have to make something that's similar to the feeling you felt or the life situation you were in while making the ART!
Thanks for this :)
Josh Purple 1 year ago

Brilliant! Great animation and music!
Jonathan Thirkill 1 year ago

incredible!
Ryan Cole 1 year ago

fucking gorgeous.
Paul Kelly 1 year ago

"nebulous additive blending" just about sums it up. Empty words to describe pointless activity. Try some daylight.
P
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

they're vampire butterflies :)
Adriana de Barros 1 year ago

Beautiful!
Janiece Lincoln 1 year ago

Gorgeous!
Kyle McDonald 1 year ago

Super beautiful. I think it's totally fine to explore these sort of nearly-abstract visuals without a narrative.

There are a bunch of illusions you're using here, very successfully: you've created an illusion of depth (with the sizes/layering), an illusion of a larger environment (with the complexity of the fog), etc.

I think the only thing that feels "off" is the direction-swapping of the butterflies. It's a little too discontinuous compared to everything else.
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

good points, i agree ;)
christina 1 year ago

Beautiful, I believed every minute, Thanks
Touch and Go/Quarterstick 1 year ago

Very nice, I like it. Check out some of our videos...totally different but you might like them.
Beautiful Machine 1 year ago

your videos are ridiculously memorizing. i want to watch them forever...
lets get it!!! 1 year ago

speechless!!!!!
Matt Saunders 1 year ago

cool beans :)
andrea 1 year ago

Boards of Canada & your work together are genious!
Songs makes a great part too, really amazing work though!
Veritas 1 year ago

Incredible, the Board are sick too. :D
Vladimir 1 year ago

Dude!!!! X_x You are nuts!
Elcurado 1 year ago

wow.
James Kim 1 year ago

Amazing, it felt like I was spiraling upwards/downwards. I felt very light watching that. Great vision.
Prakash 1 year ago

Mind Blowing .. mate
Attila Malarik 1 year ago

Beautiful! I love Boards, this video complements it brilliantly.
ramesh 1 year ago

wonderfull ...excellent
Clintus McGintus 1 year ago

totally amazing. Incredible work.
Simon Strandgaard 1 year ago

nice
kobi 1 year ago

hmmm nausea, but kudos, very pretty
Rhian Sheehan 1 year ago

Truly stunning!
p0ns 1 year ago

Is this meant to be a stereogram video or somehow 3d?
I just watched this like when you watch a stereogram and you can see the 3 or 4 levels of focusing in the video.

Or is it maybe that i'm just too high to watch a truly awesome video? :)
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

your perception is conditioned by what you want to see :)
urban art 1 year ago

Magnific
Ben Jacob 1 year ago

Fantastic ! The Audio is really fused with the visuals ..
Andy Stokes 1 year ago

Watching this I can imagine how long it would take to build in a traditional 3D App. What you can do with some code in Processing is unbelieveable... Another great piece.
sandra teager 1 year ago

WOW!This is amazing!!
CNek 1 year ago

Truly astonishing !!
There is something that I had'nt understood.
You said that the rendering took 4 hours.
But as I know, Processing is a real-time only environment... Am I wrong ? :)

Keep going up !
Glenn Marshall 1 year ago

thanks, it can run in realtime if you want depending on the spec of your computer and how complex the graphics are, in this case i wanted high end graphics and detail, which takes a little more time.
nacristi 1 year ago

me parece fantastico,por un momento me he sentido alli.
MaLuRo 1 year ago

si verdaderamente fantastico.

My face while watching it > O.O
Truly beautiful!
Ian Lucero 1 year ago

This was pretty hypnotic and fantastic!

Can't wait for the looping feature on vimeo.
Asish Banerjee 1 year ago

cool
xfry 1 year ago

Fantastica, Preciosimo !

Pero trata de no ser tan repetitivo !
Beeker 1 year ago

One addition... flapping the wings in a sporatic and high FPS manner. As if the wings were recorded at like 200 FPS or something insane. Otherwise they look like leaves to me, still very cool, and I wish I had the time and knowledge to do that. That would take me an insane amount of time to do in AE (if I could even do it).
reyomar 1 year ago

wow amazing, but the music is bad hehe.
James Lewin 1 year ago

Great combination!

Each of your videos gets better and better!
Suf 1 year ago

Jawdroppingly beautiful. My hats off to you sir...