Fun with textures

Thanks to ArtificialEyes great and personal support, I've been making some progress setting up 3L for midi control.

Here are a few short clips that I grabbed last night with my camcorder. 3L does have the ability to capture the output direct to disk, but I was going for some of the blurred and motion effects from the camera itself. The audio is pretty bad due to the tiny mic on my camera. Maybe I'll motivate next time to actually hook up one of my good mics. But the audio isn't essential anyway, just what I happened to be listening to.

I'm running renoise sending midi to a macbook pro, running 3L. Inside 3L, I've set up one object, one light, and one mask generator. A farily simple patch, considering all that 3L can do. But I think it looks pretty good.


3L Textures from Ed Colmar on Vimeo.

And another one, same patch, different lighting settings.


More 3L Textures from Ed Colmar on Vimeo.

If you watched my video Controlling LED color changers with Wacom tablet you can see the white milk crates that I have my laptops sitting on. They make great interference patterns when the LEDs shine against the wall.

My walls are painted a sort of brownish tan, so I taped some white paper to the wall to capture this.

Setup is wacom tablet driving max/msp, which is converting signal to DMX and sending it to a cluster of LED lights. Video captured on my camcorder. Again, the audio is not really important.


LED Interference patterns from Ed Colmar on Vimeo.