{"id":1291,"date":"2025-11-03T22:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2025-12-27T22:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T22:33:52","slug":"sfs-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"SFS Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Launch Rockets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fun little project, retro 8bit inspired, animated intro to Solarflare&#8217;s Launch (Labs) page. Created in Cables.gl ( I seem to alternate between projects in <a href=\"https:\/\/derivative.ca\/\">TouchDesigner <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/cables.gl\/home\">Cables<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cables doesn&#8217;t seem to have a concept of persistent particles, so I found a node that someone had created to store their positions between frames so that a force could be added, creating the exhaust pixels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screen-Recording-2025-12-27-222633.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Launch Fragmentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first little animation for our Launch page. Developed in Cables using a nice technique for fracturing a text mesh in Blender. Saving the sliced up mesh as a .glb file then translating all the fragment objects proportional to the distance from the mouse. Added some tumble, post-processing, a rolling landscape mesh based on a noise displacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Launch-fragmentation.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch Rockets A fun little project, retro 8bit inspired, animated intro to Solarflare&#8217;s Launch (Labs) page. Created in Cables.gl ( I seem to alternate between projects in TouchDesigner and Cables) Cables doesn&#8217;t seem to have a concept of persistent particles, so I found a node that someone had created to store their positions between frames&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartcupit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}