PNDLM (v1) is an antidisciplinary creative tool designed for the observation of select geometries, interference patterns, color relationships, and motion. Images are created from the interplay between three XY oscilloscopes producing their own independent Lissajous figures (similar to Blackburn pendulums), each of which can also be independently rotated or scaled (with toggled animation ability). What is it for? Curiosity? Exploring relativity and change? A novel platform for visual art? You tell me.
Each of the oscilloscopes can be individually controlled with their slider stacks or altered as a group with the meta buttons at the top. These are preceded by Save and Load buttons, indicated by the Disk and Folder icons. You can use them to save JSON files of your settings to your local device for recall later. These may or may not be compatible with future versions.
The meta buttons are as follows: Lightning (randomizes most settings), Palette (randomizes color elements), Wave (randomizes waveform elements), Slider (randomizes scale settings), Tornado (toggles and randomizes settings for rotation animation), Snowflake (toggles on/off and randomizes settings for scale animation), and ? (what you’re looking at now). Beneath these buttons is a single long slider, which dictates the probability that the color alterations that are made when pressing the Lightning or Palette buttons will be neutral dominant (to the left) or saturate dominant (to the right).
The slider stacks are unlabeled to keep the interface minimal as well as to encourage experimentation. For reference, the functions from top to bottom are: Frequency 1, Waveform 1, Frequency 2, Waveform 2, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Opacity, Amplitude/Scale, Amplitude/Scale Animation Rate, Rotational Position (helpful when rotation animation is toggled off), and Rotation Rate (this is bipolar to account for two directions of rotation).
PNDLM will work on mobile but I have no current plans to optimize for small screens.