Make many beautiful relaxing animations based on Spirograph and Lissajous patterns, taken into 3D. You can use any pictures as textures to wrap over the patterns. As the curves animate, your pictures twist and turn like reflections in a hall of mirrors! Start with the example patterns or the randomiser to make new patterns. By varying the parameters, you can make them into new patterns of your own for graphics or animations for your projects. Or use as a screensaverThe original 2D Lissajous patterns were traced by a beam of light reflected from mirrors attached to two tuning forks (in the C19). By using vibrations in three or more directions, these patterns become 3D shapes. Lissajous 3D traces the curves using a ribbon, or a tube.Also you can make spirographs - those patterns made by rolling wheels within each other. This adds an extra dimension to get 3D whorls and spirals. Comes with a screen saver to show your animations. Use any music with it (mp3, wav etc). Or select tunes at random from any folder or cd. You can set the patterns to respond to chords played in the companion program Tune Smithy, and the other way round, the fractal tunes can acompany the screensaver. It has many pattern transforming effects, some related to things that happen with real world Lissajous patterns. So, patterns drift so they continually change shape, gravity, magnet, inversion (turn inside out), friction, etc. Features include materials, transparency, colour ripples, and various forms of ribbon or tube. These include star cross section tubes, twisting tubes and bead effects, strings of spheres, and ripples. Fog can be added as well depending on the distance into the shape - so you can have shapes that disappear in and out of the mist. Also you can make curves that spiral around themselves as they trace the Lissajous curve.You can save movies, or images in many formats. Or export 3D animations in Obj format to import into other 3D programs. |
