We held an open studio on Friday night: Sandra presented her sound installation, Arzu a video she made using images from her previous show, and I showed a bunch of prints and animations from the last month of work. Thanks to everyone who came out on a cold night, and to Heiddi for the photography. And of course thanks to Marina and Sam from Fjúk who made it possible.
Readying my tiny prints for exhibition on Friday. I'm showing them in groups of 16: today I'm printing close-ups of the core. Thinking I'd love to turn this into a procedural landscape generator, low-poly Turner atmospherics of mountains and volcanoes.
Screen capture of the live-rendered animation, with me turning layers on and off. Performance drops to ~15fps with all layers on.
The wind-pattern simulation is challenging to get right: I refactored my code to give me a more flexible way to build "attractors" – nodes which push wind this way or that – and to be able to easily adjust their parameters in real time. That makes it much easier to balance the effects of multiple attractors. After I've finished this piece I'll do some more work using this new particle system.
I've also done a first pass on building the aurora. I need to give it more size variation: at present all aurora particles are the same size, and they all go from white to green to red – that's not how the actual aurora looks. More work on that tonight.
I've build a daylight setting which lowers the brightness n the night side for the core/mantle/crust elements, and I've been exploring larger sizes for those elements. It gets quite exciting as the triangles get larger.
