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Previously on vvvv: vvvvhat happened in October 2021
It is out!
This past month we're happy to have released vvvv gamma 2021.4, the latest and greatest (so far). It took us much longer than originally planned, but probably that wasn't much of a surprise to many of you. Still, we're trying to get better with our predictions. So for the freshly updated roadmap, we tried to be a bit more conservative for a start and rather update it along the way. But it should give you a perspective already for the coming year.
Also, we tried to improve the Features section on the website to hopefully give a better impression and overview of what makes vvvv.
Then apologies for silently skipping the last two regularly scheduled meetups, but we now have a date announced: On December 7th, 8pm CET baxtan the great will host The final meetup of 2021 where everyone is invited to join and show us what you're working on.
Contributions
We received updates to the following:
- Gamma Launcher
- VL.CEF
- VL.ScreenRecorder
- VL.IO.ArtNet
- VL.Devices.SpaceMouse
- VL.SocketIO
- VL.IO.HTTP.WebServer
Gallery
- LI //// MOTORSAW Basement 2021 by sunep
- #madewithvvvv by various patchers
Jobs
- Always keep an eye on the vvvv job board
- There are often some more on dasauge.de
- If you need a vvvv specialist or are one yourself, check out this listing of vvvv specialists available for hire
That was it for November. Anything to add? Please do so in the comments!
Mark the date! on December 7th, 8pm CET we gather to celebrate our 15th vvvvorld-wide meetup!
How will this work? Something like as always ;). So, fill up your bucket of popcorn and invite all your vvvvriends and vvvvamily to join us!
Want to share your work?
Please do! Anything more or less related to vvvv, yourself and your projects. Share some thoughts, share your funny fails. Or just ask some questions...
No sign-up, no line-up! We'll just have this an open call that anyone can join. Surprise!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89163736451?pwd=V0ZMNFpxVVBBaDl4c2dvc2xRK01mdz09
Any questions? Get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org. See you there!
Who Sune Petersen aka sunep
When Mon, Nov 22nd 2021 - 10:00 until Thu, Nov 25th 2021 - 15:00
Where MPLab , Kūrmājas prospekts 13, Liepāja, Latvia
I am hosting a 4 day workshop on data visualization/sonification a the UPDATE festival in Liepāja Latvia.
In October 2018 I was diagnosed with Leukemia (B-ALL) han have been through treatment from that day it was diagnosed in 2018 until late April 2021 where I took the last Chemo pill. I an now cured and well again.
In Denmark you can access all your medical data and is automatically collected on the common "sundhedsplatform" that all citizens have access to, where they can see their own data.
Seeing as a Patient in this treatment, the quite often daily blood tests are very important. After a while I could see some possibilities in using these data, it became obvious when I looked at the graph view of several of the blood parameters, here you can see Heamoglobin.
The workshop will take a subset of my blood data as starting point to see how it can be visualized/Sonified or whatever. It is of course also possible to use you own data if you have some interesting phenomenon you would like to explore.
The festival takes place in the physical world as well as online, so everyone can join. There are also other workshops and seminars that you can attend.
Disclaimer, as I have had chemo-brain for the most part of the past 3 years, the workshop is based on vvvv beta, I simply haven't had the headspace to get into it yet. I will welcome it if you dive into gamma, then I will try to join in the best I can.
Here goes!
We have a candidate for our upcoming release:
Here are some of the highlights:
- Improved patching performance in large projects
- A new Hamburger menu with easy access to settings and themes
- Support for editor extensions
- Language refinements: This node and explicit type parameters
- Video: Support for the effortless playback of a wide range of formats, see Video Playback
Skia 2d rendering:
- Now fully GPU accelerated
- Skia to Stride now works on all GPUs
- ImagePlayer to play image sequences as image
Stride 3d rendering:
- TextureFX: a vast collection of easy to use nodes for applying visual effects to textures
- Pipet, MeshSplit, Texture and Buffer nodes for VL.Stride
- ImagePlayer to play image sequences as texture
- New PostFX: Fog and Outline
- ShaderFX node factory to easily write composable shader snippets
- Materials can be extended with custom shaders
For full details of what's new, please consult the Change Log.
So please test and report your findings. If we don't find any complete show-stoppers within the next days, this is going to be it!
Previously on vvvv: vvvvhat happened in September 2021
So,
we have a candidate for the upcoming 2021.4 release. It includes the latest updates for videoplayback and also a new thing called editor extensions, which are little tools to extend the vvvv editor. The best thing about them: Those are just patches as well, so it is really easy to make your own.
Next up: We're now fixing a few more buggers that showed up in the release candidate before we'll be releasing 2021.4 hopefully within this month. Then it's time to start planning the next releases and give you an update on the roadmap.
Also coming up: The November meetup on the 23rd!
Contributions
Here are some new bits for you to try:
And the following nugets got updated:
In other surprise news: A new vvvv book is out in Japan that also covers vvvv gamma.
Gallery
Jobs
- Always keep an eye on the vvvv job board
- There are often some more on dasauge.de
- If you need a vvvv specialist or are one yourself, check out this listing of vvvv specialists available for hire
That was it for October. Anything to add? Please do so in the comments!
When Sat, Nov 6th 2021 - 17:00 until Sat, Nov 6th 2021 - 19:00
Where Galerie König, Alexandrinenstr. 118–121, 10969, Berlin, Germany
Berliners!
On short notice: A new exhibition is opening at Galerie König featuring works by Refik Anadol. Including this littlebig projection mapped onto the gallery building:
Refik tweets: Dear friends, super excited for our studio’s latest Public Art Project: Winds of Berlin opening @koeniggalerie tomorrow! This is a realtime AI Data Sculpture realtime visualizing the environmental data from a live API such as wind, temperature, humidty with natureGAN!
The artist will be present. Come join us for a tour!
Here goes!
Available in experimental form since a while already, vvvv gamma finally will ship proper stable video playback options with upcoming 2021.4. So here is what we've got for you:
Video files
Typing "video" in the nodebrowser shows the VL.Video.MediaFoundation nuget. Reference it to get these nodes for video playback:
- VideoPlayer (Stride): returns a texture for VL.Stride
- VideoPlayer (Skia): returns an image for VL.Skia
Both play the same wide range of containers and formats and some more can be added by installing the Mediafoundation codec pack.
Image Sequences
For the playback of image sequences, find the following nodes shipping with the respective nugets:
- ImagePlayer (Stride) and ImagePlayer (FrameBased Stride) for VL.Stride
- ImagePlayer (Skia) and ImagePlayer (FrameBased Skia) for VL.Skia
Check their help patches for details on supported formats and some more fine-print.
For arguments regarding when to use the VideoPlayer vs. the ImagePlayers nodes, see the new chapter on video playback in the gray book.
Network synchronization
Yes, please! Using the ImagePlayer nodes, vvvv also offers to have them play in sync on multiple PCs.
Available for testing now in latest 2021.4 previews.
Previously on vvvv: vvvvhat happened in August 2021
Aaaahoi!
The single biggest news this month: The FUSE team had their preview release party and people are since fusing aways like there's no tomorrow. Check it out, you don't want to be the last one who joins the hype! Any questions? Get them answered in the shiny new dedicated FUSE section of the forum.
In addition, we had two regular vvvv meetups which you should watch if you don't want to miss out on the latest shenanigans: meetup 13 and meetup 14.
And a secret tip: dottore giving an update on the status of the VL.Kairos project.
How are things regarding the upcoming 2021.4 release? Good, glad you ask! We've just recently merged the promised Settings UI, which is actually bigger news than what meets the eye. We'll have to talk about this separately... TextureFX have recently left the experimental stage and so have the Video- and TexturePlayers that still have an announcement pending. But really, latest 2021.4 previews already have all of this in for you to test. And still a few more things to come...
Contributions
Here are some new nugets that got freshly minted:
And the following got updated:
Gallery
Jobs
- Always keep an eye on the vvvv job board
- There are often some more on dasauge.de
- If you need a vvvv specialist or are one yourself, check out this listing of vvvv specialists available for hire
That was it for September. Anything to add? Please do so in the comments!
Who all-ovvvv-us
When Tue, Sep 28th 2021 - 20:00 until Tue, Sep 28th 2021 - 22:00
Hello evvvveryone!
This September comes with two meetups! YAY! and this is an official invitation for you to join our well known online gathering on September 28th, 8pm CET! Bring your drinks, snacks and of course patches to share and discuss with the others.
Want to share your work?
You are more than welcome! Shortly before the meetup starts, we will share a link to the Zoom call here and on our Element chat! As always; do not forget to appear with your "name"+"vvvv"!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86374295289
Questions? Get in touch via meetup@vvvv.org.
See you soon!
Who Christian Riekof, Kyle McLean, Natan Sinigaglia & David Brüll (Host)
When Tue, Sep 14th 2021 - 21:00 until Tue, Sep 14th 2021 - 22:00
Where The NODE Institute, Germany
Hello vvvvolks,
It’s happening! After many moons of deep contemplation and hard work we are thrilled to announce the first public preview release of Fuse on 14/09/21. We will also be making an online presentation party to accompany the release, kindly hosted by the Node Institute. That's this coming Tuesday at 21:00 Berlin Time…
https://thenodeinstitute.org/event/release-presentation-the-fuse-project/
We will take an introductory tour of what has been produced and discuss future directions for The FUSE Lab.
Hope to see you there,
The Fuse Lab team
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