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Fluxus – 3D game engine for livecoding worlds into existence

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I have used Fluxus years ago. Even then it was complicated to compile if I recall correctly.

We did this project with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N52hNTfbXN8 It's a 3d pointcloud visualisation, which when detects that you have jumped freezes the pointcloud and rotates it around.

I learned how to use it from one of the developers in a workshop. I'm not sure if this is the one, but looks similar enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTt8r3LhCFM&t=1s

I remember using it in 2006!

Not sure if anything changed (by the looks of it no), but I couldn’t get this to work when I last tried it a few years ago.

That makes two of us. Pity because it does seem pretty interesting.

It's the coolest project you'll never get to run.

At least 10 years ago the main hook was DJing while coding procedural animations.

After you finally manage to climb the mountain of building Fluxus, you'll find yourself confronted with your ability to do that :)

Why not dockerize it?

That sounds like even more of a nightmare, dockerizing some ultra custom OpenGL and real time audio Scheme development environment?

It would be interesting to have something write 3D code for rendering worlds. Like DallE for 3D meshes and textures.

There's https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse which works pretty well. (See eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWftkTq1XU).

Well there is the relatively simple yet extensible declarative syntax of A-Frame [1] which could even be simplified more for use by DallE.

[1] https://aframe.io

I like the site's 90s cyber esthetic. Makes me want to read some textfilez about warez.

Did scons change between python2 and python3? That looks like it might be part of the issue people are running into.

I migrated a scons based build system from 2 to 3 and none of the functions changed meaningfully as far as I could tell.

Possibly, the reference is the Fluxus art community.

Fluxus was one of the origins of performance art as a thing in itself.

Fluxus was about world building in the real world rather than virtually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus

If it can be used to create music than feel free to add it here by sending a PR: https://github.com/pjagielski/awesome-live-coding-music

Same here no luck getting it to run on Win or Linux. It looks really cool.

Same :(

I really like it! :D

lisp?

that'll be a hot-cuppa-nope fer me.

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