Cole Ingraham

Vapor

coleingraham — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:29:21 +0000

For eight part violin ensemble with any number of people on a part. In this video, the CU violin studio performs live with Carnegie Mellon University and University of South Florida over the internet via JackTrip.

Finger Paint

coleingraham — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:37:02 +0000

Finger Paint performed by the Glitch Lich network laptop quartet.

Using the Surround Projection Tools addon for Blender 2.6

coleingraham — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:41:36 +0000

Here I give a quick demo of how to use my new Blender addon: Surround Projection Tools. It lets you very quickly and conveniently setup everything I went over in my tutorial on Creating a Surround Projection Camera Setup in Blender. If you haven’t already seen that, it would probably be good to watch it first as I reference many of the things I covered there.

This was created using Blender 2.6 rev 41805 (svn build) so it will most likely not work with significantly older versions as the python API changed a lot during the development of 2.5. However any recent version should be fine.

CURRENT VERSION (0.1.2)
- streamlined GUI so that the add/remove buttons are in the same place
- added patch suggested by Campbell Barton making new scenes have the original as a background scene (no more remove/re-add if you add/delete objects)

UPDATE: The script is now part of the official contributed extensions. For information about how to get it (and all other contributed scripts) check out the blender wiki. There has also been an update to where this and other experimental scripts are now included in svn builds by the way.

Creating a Surround Projection Camera Setup in Blender

coleingraham — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:36:47 +0000

In this video tutorial, I cover setting up Blender to render a multi-screen surround projection. “What is that and why would I need to know about it” you ask? This is for if you are in a situation where you are making video in 3D for multiple screens surrounding the viewer. Admittedly, this is a very niche situation but if you find yourself needing to do this, as I did for a recent show, there isn’t a whole lot of other information out there on the topic. I hope you find this interesting if not useful in your own work, and please let me know if this helps with a project of yours.

Here I am using Blender 2.6 but everything should work with any older or new version, as there isn’t anything version specific. The concepts should also transfer to other 3D software like 3dsMax or Cinema4D as well.

Here’s the.blend file if you’d like to follow along.

Tour Wrap-up

coleingraham — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:18:33 +0000

September 26-30 was a crazy week! Glitch Lich teamed up with saxophonist Michael Straus for four nights of awesome performances. I thought I’d share some of what we did.

Wednesday 9/28 Michael and I performed my new piece Lattice on CU’s Pendulum new Music:

As part of Friday’s University of Northern Colorado show, I performed an iPad solo using Rob Fielding’s Geo instrument:
Difference Tones by coledingraham

It was a blast and I hope we wil all get a chance to work together again sometime in the future. Meanwhile, my huge surround video show is fast approaching so I’m working non-stop on that now. More on that soon.