YANTRA
mandala
a geometric figure representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism.
Built with Unreal Engine, Yantra is comprised of an array of point lights and simple shapes.
The mandala itself is built by taking these simple shapes, flipping the rendering surface 'inside out', and overlapping them in repeating patterns of increasing size. Applying varying directions and speed of rotation to each section of the structure brings the mandala to life, as the interior surfaces of each shape cascade through each other. As you zoom ever-further from the core of the mandala more of the structure is revealed, and distinct rhythms can be discerned in its motions.
The lights arrayed throughout the mandala are tied into a rudimentary audio visualization script, which translates the waveform of an audio file into light intensity values. As the music rises and falls in amplitude, the lights pulse in brightness.
The music used in the above video is by Geinoh Yamashirogumi (website / wikipedia).
In 1988 they provided the soundtrack to the movie adaptation of Akira (wikipedia), a Japanese manga by Katsuhiro Otomo. Much like a mandala, Akira and its soundtrack are built on themes of recurrence, life, evolution, and the universe.
The Akira soundtrack utilizes a significant amount of gamelan (wikipedia), a percussive style of music originating from the island of Java. Javanese mythology tells of the creation of gamelan by the God-King Batara Guru, who built three gongs atop a massive volcano to communicate with the Gods who still dwelled in the heavens.
The current limitations of the Unreal Engine audio visualization plug-in unfortunately prevent a successful build from being packaged for running outside of the Unreal editor itself. For that reason, a download link for this project is unfortunately not available.
If you have any information on how to achieve a successful build using the Unreal Engine audio visualization plug-in, or if you have an alternative method for Unreal-based audio visualization, I would love to hear from you!
a geometric figure representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism.
Built with Unreal Engine, Yantra is comprised of an array of point lights and simple shapes.
The mandala itself is built by taking these simple shapes, flipping the rendering surface 'inside out', and overlapping them in repeating patterns of increasing size. Applying varying directions and speed of rotation to each section of the structure brings the mandala to life, as the interior surfaces of each shape cascade through each other. As you zoom ever-further from the core of the mandala more of the structure is revealed, and distinct rhythms can be discerned in its motions.
The lights arrayed throughout the mandala are tied into a rudimentary audio visualization script, which translates the waveform of an audio file into light intensity values. As the music rises and falls in amplitude, the lights pulse in brightness.
The music used in the above video is by Geinoh Yamashirogumi (website / wikipedia).
In 1988 they provided the soundtrack to the movie adaptation of Akira (wikipedia), a Japanese manga by Katsuhiro Otomo. Much like a mandala, Akira and its soundtrack are built on themes of recurrence, life, evolution, and the universe.
The Akira soundtrack utilizes a significant amount of gamelan (wikipedia), a percussive style of music originating from the island of Java. Javanese mythology tells of the creation of gamelan by the God-King Batara Guru, who built three gongs atop a massive volcano to communicate with the Gods who still dwelled in the heavens.
The current limitations of the Unreal Engine audio visualization plug-in unfortunately prevent a successful build from being packaged for running outside of the Unreal editor itself. For that reason, a download link for this project is unfortunately not available.
If you have any information on how to achieve a successful build using the Unreal Engine audio visualization plug-in, or if you have an alternative method for Unreal-based audio visualization, I would love to hear from you!