Abstract

All Beginner’s Workshops run for two full days and require no previous
knowledge. After introducing the user interface of vvvv and it’s
paradigms of a visual, node based programming language, you’ll learn
to create various “essential” patches from scratch.

Requirements

Being able to install vvvv

Hosts

Group A (english): Benedikt Groß & Norbert Riedelsheimer
Group B (german): ktl & phl

Main Topics

These essential patches cover basic topics like:

• Interface objects (color, string, enumerations, button, slider)
• DX9 basic elements (Renderer, Quad, Grid, FileTexture)
• Transformation (Rotate, Translate, Transform)
• Spreads concept (LinearSpread, RandomSpread, Stallone, Queue)
• Animation (LFO, Damper, Oscillator, DeNiro)
• Subpatching (build your own nodes)
• Transformation hierarchy (Rotate, Translate, Transform)
• Camera animation and navigation (LookAt, Perspective)
• Shaders (Phong, Gouraud, Constant, Tiki user shaders)
• Meshes (Mesh, Sphere, Cylinder)
• Video input (VideoIn, FileStream, VideoTexture)
• Rendering/Exporting your animations (Renderer, MainLoop, Writer, Writer(NRT))

Resources

Walkthrough Topics and Resources

1. basics I

• welcome round and introducing ourselves
• niveau check of participators
• may i introduce to you: „vvvv“ + what is this and what can i do with it
• relativisation (vvvv is not made to solve every task)
• advice: vvvv.org + tiki + bulletin board. community and culture.
• initiation in to the GUI and some specials of VVVV
• interface objects = IO box (Color, String, Enumerations, Button, Slider)
• herr inspektor (hidden pins)
• node categories
• patching style (comment, topdown, loops, input/output pins)
• important hotkeys

files group A (en) 01 basics I.zip (142.73 Kb)

2. basics II

• Hello World: DX9 basic elements (Renderer, Quad, FileTexture) and Primitives (Quad, Sphere ...).
• coordinate System (AspectRatio)
• transformation (Rotate, Translate, Transform)
• spreads concept (LinearSpread, RandomSpread, TypoSpread, Stallone, Queue)
• animation (Lfo, Damper, Oscillator, DeNiro, switch)
• task copy render window: we give the target (Render Window). participators have to build up the patch by theirselves

files group A (en) 02 basics II.zip (769.43 Kb)

3. basics III

• subpatching (build your own nodes)
• transformation hierarchy (Rotate, Translate, Transform(3D), Perspective)
• task copy render window: solarsystem or other hierarchical animation

files group A (en) 03 basics III.zip (427.48 Kb)

4. 3d und Camera

• geometry/apply shader nodes, short introduction
• meshes = EX9.Geometry (xfile, sphere, cylinder) hinweis: cinema4d
• shading = EX9.Effect, shaders (Phong, Gouraud, Constant ...)
• coordinatesystems: polar (= pitch yaw length) vs. cartesian (= x y z)
• camera, analogy to reality (Dolly, Zoom, Perspektive, Far- und Nearplane)
• camera transformation (Lookat, Transform(3D), Perspective)
• task copy render window: build your own camera animation/navigation

files group A (en) 04 3d + camera.zip (5.85 Mb)

5. input and output

• mouse
• keyboard
• sound (FFT, BeatDetection)
• webcam (VideoIn)
• play videos (FileStream, VideoTexture, Blend)

• file export images/video (Renderer, MainLoop, Writer, Writer NRT)
• presenting working with multi rendering setups

6. helpful nodestructures

spreads

• getSlice/setSlice
• sorting
• stallone
• binSize
• cons

*i

• cross
• resample

if

• switch
• counter
• select
• boolean operators

feedback

• framedelay
• s+h

diverse

• map
• Bounds
• stopWatch
• Renderer TTY

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