Dust. Exploring subtle installation experiences. Always loved seeing dust motes floating in sun beams so I decided to try and reproduce that experience in TouchDesigner using Josef Pelz's T3D (Texture 3D operators) as well as PCR (Point Cloud Rendering) for GLSL bokeh effects.

Further prototyping of Infinite Frames. Using an ESP32 Feather V2 and a BNO08x 9-dof sensor as a virtual flashlight. #touchdesigner #infiniteframes #prototype #adafruit

Stills from a real-time app for viewing an image library (images courtesy of the MET)

Update with better lighting. Cranked up the speed too for extra nausea.

Real-time prototype of my "Infinite Frames" Houdini setup. Ever since I first made it, I wanted to see it run at interactive framerates. #TouchDesigner makes it really easy to do initial prototyping and look-dev for interactive projects we will build out in Cinder C++.

Magnetosphere 2.0 dev/design update. 60fps, 3440x1440 output (resized for social posts), 1,000,000+ particles, audio reactive. #touchdesigner #raye #audioreactive #generative #flocking Audio: RAYE - "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!"

A journey through art, ai and existentialism from @roberthodgin.bsky.social at Kikk Festival, taking in the highs, lows and above all, utterly mesmerising creations from the master of design-led simulations 🫡. #kikk #kikk25

If you’ve followed me on other platforms ( 🤢 ) you might know I’ve spent the last few years doing computational cinema / edit understanding. I’m happy to say we’ve got the first public live narrative search engine for film and tv! It’s early days. But check it out! ozu.ai

#AIArt #CreativeProcess #DigitalCreativity #Veo3

New: I recreated Tomas Wright’s 1742 astronomical treatise, Clavis Cælestis, and its accompanying sheets titled A Synopsis of the Universe. New posters are available in antique style and modern colors. Explore: www.c82.net/clavis-caele... How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=99

It's not too late to send your mom a tiny radiolarian for Mother's Day n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

How do mistakes, memory & nature shape creative code? At #FITCToronto, Robert Hodgin (Head of R&D, Rare Volume) dives into generative art, emergent systems & pandemic experiments. 🗓️ April 28-29, 2025 🔥 Super Early-Bird rates FROZEN! Save $100 → fitc.ca/event/to25/ @roberthodgin.bsky.social

I wrote a little primer on rigid body dynamics in Houdini after seeing a lot of similar questions online. Bullet is a pretty deep rabbit hole to fall into and there's a lot of legacy stuff that's very confusing for new artists... hopefully this helps you get started! www.toadstorm.com/blog/?p=1123

Reminder to creatives (or anyone, really): If someone reaches out because they want to interview you, and they are asking you to download a specific app to conduct the interview, it is probably a scam. I have had 3 attempts since January 2025. Do your research and check credentials.

My favorite tower! Especially loved seeing the ghost pirate ship when the fog is particularly dense:

Upcoming conference talks: Paradiso Fest, Mérida Mexico, March 12-16th Talk title: "Why Bother?" paradisofest.com FITC, Toronto Canada, April 28-29th Talk title: TBD, but it'll be mostly about the River Scars and Meander Maps projects. fitc.ca/event/to25/ Where else should I go in 2025?

Compositions in Code: The Art of Processing and p5.js will be on view at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in NYC from March 6 – August 24, 2025 Opening March 6th at 7:00 PM: lu.ma/kbs639bj @mariuswatz.bsky.social @liasomething.bsky.social @roberthodgin.bsky.social @mwiederrecht.bsky.social

Fellow Creators, if you get an email from Lyne Braunstein looking to commission art for an event for Riverside, it is a scam. Check the email address and verify via linkedin. www.linkedin.com/posts/lynebr...

Google has grouped my photos by face into me, Gregg, my mom, and a snail I took one pic of 8 years ago.

It is official! I'm speaking at conferences again! After a 10 year hiatus, I am going to be giving a talk at Paradiso Fest in Mérida Mexico in mid March. paradisofest.com I am very excited to be part of this stellar lineup and I look forward to seeing many of my conference friends again.

It is the 4 year anniversary of the first run of Meander river prints. It remains my favorite project to date (actually, maybe its a tie between this and the Planetary iPad app from 2011 roberthodgin.com/project/plan... ... okay maybe a 3-way tie with Magnetosphere)

An old meander study I forgot about until today, made with P5JS. roberthodgin.com/meander/

Having just hit 1k followers, I want to post something that is of the utmost importance:

Keeping an eye on me while I work.

Not much longer before my attempts at simulating my apartment by hand will have been deemed an incredible waste of my time :| www.worldlabs.ai/blog

Next year for #spotifywrapped, show us what music you discovered after canceling your streaming service subscriptions and how you directly supported it.

Some BTS from the moss lantern series. The toro forms adhered to the basic structure for this style of lantern, but then I exaggerated some of the features to make them feel a bit more otherworldly.

Moss R&D. This started as an excuse to learn more about running Houdini from the command line. I am able to provide a string as an input parameter, and the Houdini project will create the 3D letters and drop them onto the ground and let them settle, then the moss sim kicks in and weatherizes them.

Bought a new MacBook. Set it up. Reboot it but password wouldn't work. Recovery Assistant didn't work. So now I'm reinstalling the OS. Is this what getting old feels like?

A proof of concept audio vis from a couple months back. Abusing the Gaea erosion system in a feedback loop solver, and using isolated stems for audio inputs. Track by DVRST: soundcloud.com/wazmusic/clo... One day I will revisit this setup...

I’m so excited to share Radiozoa: a jewelry collection inspired by the microscopic skeletons of radiolaria. The forms are algorithmically generated and cast in sterling silver or brass from 3D-printed wax. I hope you love them as much as I do! available now: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/line.ph... #sciart

Remember to avoid strenuous activity after the big Thanksgiving meal. It will aid with digestion.

Happy Thanksgiving! May your holiday meal be #parasite-free

Coral structures R&D. #Houdini #Redshift #Laocoön

In honor of the newest fissure eruption in Iceland dying down after taking out the Blue Lagoon parking lot, here is a data vis I worked on two years ago showing the flurry of quakes that proceeded the 2022 eruption. #rarevolume #iceland #eruption #earthquake

The fun thing about having a simulation of your apartment to scale is that you can easily incorporate camera tracks by just wandering around your home and filming it. #houdini #syntheyes

This is around when it started to get really complicated: I decided I wanted cables. I will say, my productivity with this project sharply declined after making that decision. It is a LOT to think about.

Earlier RBD test in my apartment. #houdini #redshift #infiniteframes

Crazy photos from mbl.is showing some of the damage to the Blue Lagoon from the most recent eruption that started last night. www.mbl.is/frettir/innl...

Another setup rendered inside my simulated apartment. 80 Level mentioned it: 80.lv/articles/art...

So, doing a volumetric fracture like this requires extracting a bunch of cells out of a volume and then iteratively intersecting them with a mesh...

Here are some more images from my apartment recreation in different stages of completion.

Someone wanted to see an underwater version of that last video so I ended up here. The water needs some work... #houdini #flocking #simulation #post-apocalypse

Catching Bluesky up on some recent projects: Modelled my living room in Houdini and started using it as a playground for simulations. #murmuration #houdini #flocking #simulation

Trying to upload a 47.8MB video file and I get the following error: file size (50000001 bytes) is larger than the maximum allowed size (50000000 bytes)

@eetumartola.bsky.social made Houdini starter pack, make sure to check it out! go.bsky.app/HC1VVeZ #houdini #vfx #3d #gamedev

WIP Scars from a meandering river. Made with Houdini, rendered in Redshift.

Flurry of seismic activity in the Rekyjanes peninsula of Iceland. This data visualization shows the earthquake activity between October 1st and November 10th, 2023. Made with Houdini www.youtube.com/watch?v=4773...

Lets see how Youtube links work: Here is a murmuration video made with Houdini. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCjx...