sequence as of Oct 1

• 17s Empty Grassy Field, Wind Blowing, Highlight Fireflies, Moon
• 30s Beats enter, Buildings poppin' up but without detail
• 30s Grassy field, Tree starts growing
• 30s Buildings, detail starts popping in, camera crawls up buildings, zooming on detail
• 30s Blossoms growing and falling
• 20s Back to city -- explosion and camera shake?
• 10s Credits (music keeps going)

rideout queue

• submerge the building "seeds"
• land the windows branch
• split the CityGrow shot in two
• Use the swanky new music API
• add viewing angle to the hand-coded "script" to prevent blocked views
• add building details: inset windows, antenna, roof extensions
• SSAO
• Perturb rows in GridCity
• Pop in buildings in GridCity from center out (tendrils?) -- use hihats for fast popping!
• Detail per the reference image
• PUNT unify the two cities in some way
• PUNT halfway into CityGrow, pull back the camera and start popping buildings once per beat
• transform-feedback curl noise for sand
• laser beams for city explosions
• credits
• make the blank terrain more interesting
• city layout

cowles queue

• music API
• finish leaf shading
• finish leaf lighting (done for now, might need to revisit)
• make grass blow in the wind (done for now, need to revisit)
• make leaves fall and float in wind
• split GrassIntro into 3 shots
• make fireflies blink
• growth camera work
• leaf keep-alive movement
• move fireflies to music or flocking
• moon + moon effect
• screen space effects (bloom, color separation, fake dof)
• city sky
• tree bark shading
• horizontal vine effect / floral flourish
• credits
• linux & mac fullscreen mode switch
• statically link SDL & SDL_mixer

effects-salad

1. Go to lib/jsoncpp and run ./setup.sh

2. Go to lib/tetgen and run "make tetlib"

3. Setup SDL

For OSX:

http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.15.dmg

http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/release/SDL_mixer-1.2.12.dmg

Copy SDL.framework and SDL_mixer.framework into /Library/Frameworks

For Linux:

sudo yum install SDL_mixer-devel

Inspiration

Videos:

• Sol 740 blowing off Tetsuo's arm
• Many Viewports from 'Life on Mars'
• Walking through 5ft grass
• Grass Sound
• Journey through tall grass
• First person view walking

Stills:

• Knot Tubes
• http://minivegas.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/demoscene-moleman-art-algorithm_original_original.jpg
• http://www.marklazenby.co.uk/files/mark-lazenby-make-mountains-5.jpg
• http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7110/7692526148_d7cf675343_z.jpg
• http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0g3jiGyo21qa6hruo1_500.jpg
• http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2475/3916967801_da152c16f7_b.jpg
• http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2789/4333057631_0e1070bdfa_o.jpg

City:

• Yemen Cube City
• City Sculpture
• NYC Google Earth
• Sky scraper - sense of scale
• City art floral flourish

Cherry Blossom / Grass / Country / moon:

• Blossom up close
• Blossoms & Bark, huge
• Cool sky and moon
• Koi
• Blossoms on water
• Moon Ripples
• Moon
• Moon glow through branches
• Norway Northern Lights
• Milkyway not great
• Milkyway vignette
• Milkyway and bail
• Milkyway at Arosa

Cherry Tree Structure:

• Tree branches under
• Tree far away
• Painted/Artistic
• Multiple trunks

Misc. Tree Art:

• Moon Haze
• Cool b/w silhouette

Torii:

• Torii in water

Neo-Tokyo:

• http://www.madmind.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/akira-neo-tokyo.jpg
• http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KW_k5R8wWis/TePH6x3de9I/AAAAAAAAAms/3POananT2ds/s1600/Akira_city.jpg
• http://dessinsanimes.canalblog.com/images/akira6.jpg
• http://media.animevice.com/uploads/1/16037/268170-akira06_super.jpg
• http://www.fanboyreview.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/akira-bd-cap001.png

Interactive:

• http://phong.com/astro/hexasis/

Possible Sound + Music Stuff

• libsndfile
• portaudio
• flstudio