Animusic - Pipe Dream 1080p

This is taken from the Radeon 9700 Realtime Demo featuring Animusic's Pipe Dream animation.

Pipe Dream is probably their most famous animation, in no small part because of the email hoax that went around several years ao, claiming that it was a real machine, the attached video low enough quality that it wasn't immediately obvious that it was CGI.

Since then, it's gained popularity off its own back really, being an excellent piece of work, and great fun to watch.

I couldn't find a decent high definition video of this sequence online anywhere, so I decided to fix that little issue.

Enjoy!

N.B. While this is derived from the same animation, it isn't the same animation that features on the Animusic DVD, and that can be found elsewhere as the Animusic - Pipe Dream sequence. This was specifically distributed as a realtime rendering demo for the ATi Radeon 9700. Just to clear that up. As far as I know, the proper Animusic version of this animation isn't available anywhere in 1080p.

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  Film & Animation

[ypoora1]

I want to see this run on my GTX660 Ti and stare at the FPS. Must've been quite the benchmark back then.

[ShokaLion]

That's easily done if you want. A quick Google search of the following terms:

Radeon Realtime Animusic Fileplanet

should see a download link in the first result.

[Hail Minella]

The way Technology is headed, we will likely see this sort of thing that will be able to play any MIDI file and act as an interactive space to show which notes are being played.

Can anyone say Impossible AniMusic?

[ShokaLion]

It's funny you should say that because, if I've understood you correctly, that is pretty much how this works anyway. Obviously the music you feed into it has to be tailored to whatever instruments are in the particular environment but yeah that's how this works. Animusic creates the music, and the animation environment then their software animates the environment to the music. Presumably it also means that you could interact directly with this with a MIDI controller, if you had the program.

[Zorse Sen]

I don't think the animation process could happen in real-time, because some of the instruments start moving before the note, for example the balls that come out of the pipes.

[ShokaLion]

When I say done in real time I mean it's driven from a Midi type file. So the animation is being influenced in real time, that doesn't necessarily mean that you'd get a note as soon as you activated one because as you say movements have to happen before the sounds. It's just that theoretically you could put any compatible (to the instruments) file to the animation and it'd work. Honestly they probably have to render this like any decent animation but it does work how I described.

[commanderliamthx]

Like MidiJam?

[Jenn Bre]

I love this!!! And for the people who think the instruments start before the note are wrong!!

[Reiben9]

i just had a musicgasm

[Tattler tattles]

it's not so much the technology it's more of the plan it's self.

[Sonic6293]

There is a program that is much smaller scaled than this, but it's the same basic idea. It's called MIDIJam, which visualizes the notes being played. It's a pretty fun way to pass the time. However, you can't directly control it, it's just playback with the instruments.

[thomas otten]

I like how all of the instruments are made out of PVC pipes.