edit-what the hell's an abtract? wish I could edit the title! ABSTRACT
Ok, I thought I would throw together a quick video on creating some neat abstracts in pangolin. Here's the catch, you need to have either pro level software, or intro level with the full abstract a la carte feature. The video looks pretty bad, I'm sure there's a better way to do the video part, I just don't have the time to figure it out yet. Here's a quick explination of how its done.
In LD, draw several multicolored lines in the top left corner of the drawing window, then, I like to go to SFX and smooth the lines a bit. After that, go back to SFX and select "Spin", create 4 or 5 ribs, which will duplicate what you've draw 4 or 5 times around the center. Then, change to frame 2, open the abstract generator. Under the first oscillator, change the waveform to Frame 1, under color cycling change it to Frame 1 as well. Increase the modulation gain for oscillator 1 to somewhere around 100, then increase the speed of the modulator for oscillator 1 until you find a nice waveform, this you have to play around with a bit till you find that perfect pattern, once you've done it a few times, it is very easy to find.
So here's the link to the video: https://home.comcast.net/~djzurcher/MOV07804.MPG about 30meg
And here's the end result of what I created:
Enjoy!