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Pix­el­Con­troller is a real time video/VJ gen­er­a­tor and mixer soft­ware. Most of the Visu­als are gen­er­ated and mixed in real­time and respond to the envi­ron­ment. I use Pix­el­Con­troller to con­trol my Pix­elIn­vaders Panels.

Pix­el­Con­troller sup­ports well-known indus­try and Open­Source stan­dards, such as Art-Net, Mini-DMX, LPD6803 and Seeedstudio’s Rain­bow­duino. It is quite sim­ple to sup­port more stan­dards pro­to­cols like WS2801, HL1606 etc.

If the Pix­el­Con­troller soft­ware is launched, two win­dows are dis­played. The first win­dow shows the inter­nal debug buffer while the sec­ond shows the sim­u­lated out­put matrix.

The inter­nal image­buffer in this exam­ple shows three dif­fer­ent visu­als. The num­ber of visu­als dis­played cor­re­sponds to the con­fig­ured out­put:

The sim­u­lated out­put matrix win­dow shows the first Visual stretched over two matri­ces:

There are dif­fer­ent pos­si­bil­i­ties to con­trol Pix­el­Con­troller, one of them is the Pure­Data fron­tend:

Another pos­si­bil­ity to con­trol Pix­el­Con­troller, using the sim­ple TCP pro­to­col with NetCat:

How to get PixelController?

Pix­el­Con­troller is hosted on GitHub, so

• Browse the Source
• or down­load a ver­sion 1.0.3
• or check Pix­elIn­vaders Web­site for more information

Tech­ni­cal Specs

More infor­ma­tion about Pix­el­Con­troller.
Gen­er­a­tors:

• Blinken­lights Movie Player
• Image Viewer
• Sim­ple Plasma
• Sim­ple Colors
• Fire
• Meta­balls
• Pix­e­lim­age
• Tex­ture Deformation
• Tex­twriter
• Image zoomer
• Cell
• Plasma Two
• FFT
• Bub­ble

Effects:

• Inverter
• Roto­zoomer
• Hor­i­zon­tal Beat Shifter
• Ver­ti­cal Beat Shifter
• Volu­minize
• Tine
• Thresh­old
• Emboss

Mixer:

• Add Sat­u­ra­tion
• Mul­ti­ply
• Mix
• Neg­a­tive Multiply
• Check­box
• Volu­minizer
• Xor
• Minus Half
• Either

Fader:

• Switch
• Cross­fade
• Slide Upside Down
• Slide Left Right

Resizer:

• Pixel Resizer
• Qual­ity Resizer

How to con­trol the Software:

• Pure­Data Frontend
• OSC Server/Client
• MIDI Device/Signal
• Com­mand Line Interface
• Sim­ple TCP Interface
• Audio input

Oper­a­tion Mode:

• Man­ual
• Auto­matic aka. Randomizer
• Pre­de­fined settings

Sup­ported Oper­at­ing Systems:

• Microsoft Win­dows
• Apple OSX
• Linux
• Every OS that sup­ports a JRE