Max Cooper - Transcendental Tree Map (Official video by Martin Krzywinski and Nick Cobby)
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Max Cooper:
For the "Yearning for the Infinite" project I looked for different ways of visualising the infinite, interspersed between imagery of humans in endless pursuit. For one chapter I wanted to visualise the digits of a transcendental number, thought to be endless and non-repeating. Martin Krzywinski specialises in visualising these digits amongst many other things, and one of my favourite images is his tree map of pi, which presents this endless nested chaos in beautiful visual form. I wanted to map that growing randomness and chaotic detailed structural form to the piece of music, so I collaborated with the great music software developer, Alexander Randon on a special tool which allows the construction of musical fractals and many other complex melodic forms. With this tool I started the piece with a simple melodic structure, which is iteratively broken down into more and more complex melodies as the tree map breaks down the initially simple first digit into more and more complex sub-structures. With the aesthetic as a whole becoming this sea of interacting notes, partly random, but with a global form emerging eventually, as the circle is embodied by the chaos of the digits of pi.
Nick Cobby collaborated with Martin to bring this idea to life in animated form for the visual show, with a hyper-detailed tree map structure growing all around the audience. And if you're interested in the ideas behind this I delved into this chapter in some detail in a recent blog essay here (which also comes as a poster with Martin's tree map image inside the album vinyl package): maxcooper.net/transcendental-...
Martin Krzywinski:
The transcendental tree map encodes the first 20,244 digits of Pi = 3.1415...7012.
The construction of the map begins with dividing the canvas with 3 vertical lines, which forms 4 rectangles. Each of the four rectangles formed by this process is divided with 1, 4, 1 and 5 horizontal lines, respectively. This forms 2 + 5 + 2 + 6 = 15 rectangles. Each of the 15 rectangles is divided by vertical lines according to the next 15 digits of Pi. This process repeats until we have performed the loop 7 times.
The division of each rectangle is not even-the positions of the lines are slightly jittered. This gives the map a more organic feel.
The number of digits encoded in each loop is 1, 4, 15, 98, 548, 2,962 and 17,180. In total, 17,180 vertical and 3,064 horizontal lines are drawn and these form the backbone of the map.
The video is created by layering numerous animations of the construction of the map, in which the rate and order of line growth is varied. Blinking rectangles indicate that the lines for a digit have completed drawing.
Original tree map and animation clips by Martin Krzywinski.
Compositing, coloring, synchronization and other post-processing by Nick Cobby.
Nick Cobby:
The challenge with Transcendental Tree Map was to bring to life Martin Krzywinski's amazing scientific visualisations of Pi. They are so dense and complex, that a considered approach was needed to ensure the computer systems could handle all the information and still maintain clarity. We had a twofold approach, using automated coded sequences from Martin and then manual digital manipulation and editing from me. Using both a generative and manual approach parallels the juxtaposition of order and randomness inherent in Martin's work, and the hypnotic music Max created.
Although all Martin's sequence outcomes are different, they all start with the principle rule of Pi, and when placed on top of each other, they all occupy the same grid space allowing layering and using some of the sequences as alpha channels to reveal others underneath. At any one time there are up to 30 sequences running at once. At times I wanted it to look more organic, with line tracers drawing like roots of a tree, or holes appearing in the data then glitching back to its organised structure, like it's constantly battling itself. When the visual is at its peak, the construction and destruction of the order of the tree map is constant, and the notion of the infinity is revealed through the endless visual possibilities.
The transcendental tree map was originally created for 2015 Pi Day (mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/piday2015/po...) by Martin Krzywinski (mkweb.bcsgc.ca) (@MKrzywinski), who has been creating Pi Day art (mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/piday.mhtml) since 2013. Martin is a staff scientist at Michael Smith's Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer (www.bcgsc.ca) where he works on data visualization.
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Animator: "So, what do you want clip to look like?"
Max: "You know when you hit your screen real hard?"
Animator: "Say no more"
feels like my brain is being cleaned
want real brain scrubbing? search aphex twin copenhagen on soundcloud
Same... This felt oddly cleansing in contrast to... "everything else" that's going on right now.
so you mean... brain.. cleaning.. washing.. brain washing..
alright fuck it I'm in.
Mine just got melted
Mine just got melted
Max uploads a video
CZcams compression algorithms: oh shit here we go again
Lolz
CZcams algorithms go: BRRRRR
This was exactly my first thought :D
Hilarious.
lol
It feels like I watched my computer just learn how to draw a circle.
Holy shit
I really really like this interpretation.
Me: hit my elbow
My nervous system:
This is what your phone sees when you reset it to factory settings.
Happy Pi Day to everyone! Congratulations to Max and Nick for beautifully layering my Pi Day art musically and visually. If I remember correctly, the length of loops in this piece is based on prime numbers -- some loops come in and out of phase with each other, but never all at once.
Beautiful sir
So ridiculously cool and truly beautiful, thank you so much!
It took a second watch, but these are the digits of pi...
The lines also seem to be spaced out according to the golden ratio.
I realized that too!
Obviously you don't have to if it's too much effort lol but could you explain this I don't see the correlation. I'm fascinated by maths
Wait no I see it now that's clever!
and the video ends with a circle's circumference and its diameter. neato
What an amazing time to be alive.
Peace everyone.
jeah - nice virtual rug over a cruel-as-ever reality
Imagine understanding the concept of the infinite this well. And then making it a visual and auditory journey.
This man is so special. I struggle w keeping interest in a lot of "cerebral" types of music, but his always walks thee line between "here" & "there"
He's great and the visuals are refined be & deep
Woah that was a trip. A floorplan for computation. An architects vision for turning a city into a CPU and vice-versa. Accompanied by beautiful procedurally generated soundscapes. Thank you Max!
I love how every frame of this makes a good wallpaper
0:10
this is what happens when you don’t practice social distancing
That's good
This is the most technically competent art I've seen in a long time.
I don't remember when i teared up while watching a video. Max, you got me. Never stop. Never. My mind feels like a bit less heavy whenever i see your creations
As someone who makes animations, the amount of work that must have gone into creating these visuals is giving me a headache
Pretty sure this is programmed.
it's code, based on the number pi
@@matthiasreitner679 is there any source of why combining such an complexity with the number pi? :)
@@chessgmvid The amount of unique code must be absurd!
This is a very impressive technical achievement
I sincerely doubt you are "someone who makes animations" if you think this was animated by hand.
Max Cooper needs a documentary. This music is so incredibly "other" that it needs detailed explanation from the creator. Max, we are in need!
One of the best “digital films” (or whatever you want to call it) I ever saw. Amazing!!!!
Great how you can see the little civilizations rise and fall.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die."
Reference?
Rutgar Hauer 😉 (Roy Batty Nexus 6)
czcams.com/video/4dDDXpNFXMk/video.html
Brilliant
This looks like how I imagine RAM moving data around might look to a machine.
Tron
@@cavejohnson982 ?
I love the amazingly executed collaborations of audio and visual on all of Max's uploads. So many styles and sooo much talent in both areas its just a joy to watch
well this is magical
Absolutely the trippiest video I've ever seen
This is how to make an electronic ambient track, that is a pleasure even for active listening. The mood is just perfect as a background as it is intriguing to listen to carefully, with stereo field motion, variations, harmonies....so much stuff going on!
so incredibly awesome!!!!
*C418 discovers Ketamine and has a wail of a time*
Thank you tons for providing seemingly endless auditory and visual inspiration.
It's unique and nobody does it better
ineffably brilliant!!! big thank you to all involved for creating and sharing such amazing art. i imagine that Buckminster Fuller and Piet Mondrian are dancing in the afterworld right now to this.
beautiful. thank you
Long time ago I have not feel so trapped in front of a screen! This delighted me in all aspects!
Absolutely brilliant.
That was super intense.
my favourite monitor calibration video 😍
This must of taken ages but it came out beautifully
It's amazing bro!
Great, great great. An emotionally gripping visual and auditory description of computer thought.
Damn awesome!!! I am amazed!!!
Beautiful work
The best 7 min of my day - thank you!
beautiful journey! thank you
Beauuuuutiful !!
I’m new to Max. Not only is his music hard to describe but his choice of visual artists is genius. I’d describe it as ambient synth Jazz and is as best a representation of what “modern” looks like and sounds like as I have experienced.
This is the perfect soundtrack for “being a genius for dummies”. Listening to this stuff, really listening, could actually increase genius particles in the brain! Buzz buzz buzz!
However, I would be terrified having to listen to stuff like this while on LSD!
That could cause a break with reality lasting much longer than the influence of the drug!
Powerful stuff
i have a headache exactly at the position of that one sound on the top left behind me in the stereofield
I’m subscribed for life!
In a thousand years, with some serious human evolution, everyone could understand this video. Amazing.
Me: *sees the thumbnail* Oh... That looks cool i'm gonna click on that
Me after watching the video: i u n d e r s t a n d e v e r i t h i n g n o w
e x c e p t g r a m m a r
@@kunemann y o u m e a n s p e l l i n g , r i g h t ? h a h a h a
interesting if true y e s ! T h a t ‘ s k a r m a r i g h t h e r e ! 🤣
This is the next level. Not only visuals but the music itself.
This gives me the urge to reread BLAME! for some reason.
I felt this in my throat and had to pause. But it was worth it
Emergence at it's finest
Thanks for that. Love it.
For real... I fuckin love your music.. Keep it goin man!
Your work is so good that I feel a sense of superiority over the plebs that do not get to experience of your stuff lol ;]
magical
Потрясающе, всей глубины в простоте разом не осознать. спасибо
OMG I LOVED
So intricate and beautiful
just deep souls can feel quantum feelings in this track❤️
OH THANK YOU MAX !FOR THE JOURNEY
Sound and vision created
Max's art is for those who see beauty in the finest details...
that was lit
Your videos and music are the best.
I love how the geometry reminds me of a CPU layout.
yeah, looks like silicon plates slices in the end
Nice! Actually more interesting and entertaining than most of music videos
Me and my friends were tripping in a nice grass field on a sunny day when he took out the sennheisers, put them on my head, and played this
that was amazing
thanks
I just saw this at nantes just before the first confinement day. That was the best way to say "good bye humanity" see ya
Good definition of life
makes me think of a bunch of people going about a city
Génial
Exactly the same feeling I got from the anxiety dreams I would have as a kid. They were black and white too
Amazing
More brilliant music from the Master
I LOOOOOOOOOVE THIS
You could mistake it for visual and audio representation of what happens in moderm microprocessor during one milisecond of its operation. Amazing.
i accidentally played it at .75 % speed at the start without realizing.... 100% epic.
this isnt your average Mondrian
this is an ADVANCED MONDRIAN
reminds me of that testimage on a tv from the last century. But in higher fidelity xD
How do you make this?
Please add a disclaimer for epileptics somewhere in the name of the video or in the beginning of the description
Cities in movies when they loose power:
Playback at 2X experienced and encouraged. Good stuff.
How this video is done? Python? OpenGL? Resolume?..
Area maps for levels 3-7 were generated in Perl and animated in various ways (speed of line growth, blinking rectangles when digit lines completed, etc). This resulted in about 250 individual 4k video clips. I passed these onto Nick who masterfully blended them into the creation that you're seeing.
@@martin-krzywinski Thanks for replay, some example on github found github.com/rhardih/winski
Hey Max, how could someone convinse you to release some of your video colaberation work in VR formats? I feel being able to stand in the middle of them and look all arround would be stunning. maybe even make one with vr in mind some day.
edit: I realise that sounded far more aquisatory then I intended it too.
Wow!
p sure the compression algorithm hates Max Cooper's videos
was exited to see this video after seeing in the live vid
That's supposedly deep, my folks. Think hard!
I vibe wit it
this is very interesting
still wonder how is this video got in my YT recommendations, but i like it
time stands still when i watch max cooper videos
Thank God he spared us and kept it to mere two dimensions
WOAH:::CRAZY !!!