Live Visual Art experiments with sound and light fractal streams.

Made with Restream. Livestream on 30+ platforms at once via https://restream.io Fractal Stream — Live Visual Art by William Victor Newbold Welcome to a real-time, multi-layered generative art experience where mathematics, chaos, and sound collide. Every frame and note you experience is computed live on the fly—no pre-rendered footage, no post-processing, and no editing. What you see and hear is exactly what the machine is calculating at this very millisecond. This stream brings together three custom-built projects and applications working in perfect harmony: The Fractal Engine (x): A C++ and OpenGL-powered engine rendering 36 iteration equations live on the GPU. ButterchurnVisualizer: Layered directly on top of the fractal stream program, injecting audio-reactive, morphing visual feedback loops into the geometry. newbold-radio: An experimental Python radio player playing four tracks simultaneously from across my internet catalog uploads (YouTube video-songs, Archive, Alonetone, and Bandcamp), weaving an unpredictable, ambient soundscape. 🌐 Explore the Projects Check out the source code and applications powering this stream on GitHub: Fractal Engine (x): https://github.com/m8w/x ButterchurnVisualizer: https://github.com/m8w/ButterchurnVis... newbold-radio: https://github.com/m8w/newbold-radio 🧬 Inside the Geometry: 36 Iteration Equations The core engine runs 36 different fractal iteration formulas, each producing a completely unique class of visual structure. They blend seamlessly in real time or flash instantly via the glitch engine: Classic Set: 0 · z² + c (Mandelbrot / Julia), 1 · sin(z) + c, 2 · exp(z) + c, 3 · cos(z) + c, 4 · sinh(z) + c, 5 · cosh(z) + c, 6 · Burning Ship, 7 · Tricorn, 8 · Newton z³−1, 9 · Phoenix, 10 · zⁿ + c (arbitrary power) Extended Set: 11 · tan(z) + c, 12 · z·exp(z) + c, 13 · Celtic, 14 · Magnet I, 15 · zᶻ + c (self-power), 16 · Manowar, 17 · Perp Burning Ship, 18 · Time-spiral, 19 · z³ + z + c, 20 · cosh(conj(z)) + c, 21 · Polar→Cartesian warp Mandelbulber 2 Set: 22 · Buffalo, 23 · Perp Celtic, 24 · tanh(z) + c, 25 · Nova (Newton z³−1+c), 26 · Lambda z(1−z)·c, 27 · Barnsley 1 (IFS), 28 · SimFp sinh(z)+z²+c, 29 · Ikenaga z³+(c−1)z−c, 30 · Rudy z²+c/z, 31 · Magnet II, 32 · z⁴ + c, 33 · Glynn z¹·⁵+c, 34 · Mandelbar Celtic, 35 · z²·sin|z| + c 🌀 Chaos Domain Warp Before iteration begins, the complex plane is pre-distorted by one of 7 baked-in chaos warp systems—Turbulence (fBm), Logistic map, Hénon attractor, Shred scanline drift, Lorenz, Clifford, and Ikeda attractors. This couples chaotic attractor geometry directly into the fractal orbit itself rather than treating it as a post-process overlay. 🎛 42 Stream Blend Modes The primary video and Butterchurn visualizer overlay compose against each other through 42 blend modes, incorporating the full GIMP standard set plus extended modes: Subtract, Divide, Hard Mix, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Negation, Reflect, Glow, Phoenix, Grain Merge, Grain Extract, Stamp, Freeze, Heat, Gamma, Chromatic Split, XOR, and HSL component swaps (Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity). ⚡ The Glitch Engine A probabilistic chaos system fires random, short-duration events at configurable rates. Each glitch modifies the fractal or MIDI state for a moment before auto-recovering: Julia Jump, Formula Flash, Zoom Punch, Blend Scatter, Power Spike, Offset Shift, Blend Mode Glitch, Filter Glitch, Chaos Warp Glitch, Velocity Spike, Pitch Scramble, and Ghost Note. A random CC burst mode fires MIDI CC messages on every glitch event, routing through the MIDI mapper to modulate blend, filter, and chaos parameters automatically. 🎹 Full MIDI Mapping Every significant parameter is MIDI-controllable live—blend weights, Julia C, power, zoom, pan, formula A/B crossfading, chaos strength, overlay filters, and the color synthesizer (hue, saturation, luminance, oscillator rate, and amplitude). All mappings are learned live or assigned manually with configurable min/max ranges. 🎨 Credits & Tech Stack All music selections, multi-track mixes, visual configurations, parameter choices, MIDI mappings, color design, and software integration are created and operated entirely by William Victor Newbold. Software Stack: C++ / OpenGL / GLSL / Python / Swift / FFmpeg Broadcast Engine: Live broadcast via Restream and archived locally. No two streams are ever identical. #fractal #mandelbrot #juliaset #mandelbulb #generativeart #livevisuals #shaderart #realtimerendering #glitch #midiart #williamvictornewbold #burningship #newton #chaos #lorenz #butterchurn #pythonart #cpp