Motion Lab

A broadcast ping — the core B3BOP heartbeat.

Blender build

1. One point per ring, each running the same loop with an index offset — one wave leaves as the next arrives.
2. Rings are unit circles scaled to frac(phase + offset)·Max Radius.
3. Brightness fades with distance travelled, which makes it read as a pulse rather than a ripple.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

The mascot floating, alive and waiting.

Blender build

1. Takes any geometry — drop the drone mascot in and it idles.
2. Sway runs at twice the bob rate, so it traces a figure-of-eight rather than a straight up-down, and leans into the sway.
3. Seamless; verified over time, since a uniform effect has no cross-point spread.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Scan-lines, RGB split, a passing dropout.

Blender build

1. A compositor group, not a material — B3B_AnalogComp grades the whole frame, which is what sells an analog look.
2. Horizontal RGB split (separate → translate R and B → recombine) + YCC chroma bleed, so colour smears while luma stays sharp.
3. Scanlines, vignette, grain and a tape dropout band come from one packed mask image — ShaderNodeTexCoord does not exist inside a compositor tree.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

The room listening — sound made visible.

Blender build

1. Geo Nodes: Mesh Line → Instance on Points (cubes).
2. Sample Sound Frequencies — drive Low/High from Index so every bar reads a different band. One node, no baking.
3. Amplitude is tiny and unnormalised — Map Range it, tilt the highs, then clamp.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A seamless spin — vinyl warmth, endless loop.

Blender build

1. Cylinder primitive with 48 fill segments, so concentric grooves have geometry to ride on.
2. Grooves from frac(radius·Grooves), masked off inside Label Size.
3. Full turn per period plus a slight off-axis Wobble for the lofi feel.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Text resolving out of noise — a signal locking in.

Blender build

1. Pieces stay full size throughout — the reveal is positional, not a scale-up.
2. floor(Progress·Ticks) re-rolls a hashed XY offset per tick, scaled by (1−r)·Jitter: packets jump, then lock.
3. sin(r·π)^4 · Lock Flash spikes emission exactly as each packet lands. Peak b3b_amp 1.41, inside budget.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Scattered points converge into the signal — then scatter.

Blender build

1. Distribute Points on Faces, so piece count comes from Density and not from the input topology.
2. Coord = a hash of Index — arrival order reads as a swarm, not a sweep.
3. The offset spirals in: radial direction rotated by (1−r)·Swirl, scaled by (1−r)·Spread, plus a Z lift.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Rain-on-neon energy — a sign buzzing to life.

Blender build

1. Emission on a thin tube; Brightness 1.6 sits just over Glare’s 1.0 so it blooms without flooding.
2. Flicker is a discrete blink: floor(t·Rate) holds one hashed value per tick, lit when rand > Amount.
3. A Noise Texture was tried first and never fired — 1D Perlin sits near 0.5 and never reaches the tails.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Layered hills drifting — humid air, real depth.

Blender build

1. Build 3–4 flat “cards” (hills) at different depths.
2. Move the camera laterally; nearer cards shift more (natural parallax).
3. Add volumetric fog graded by depth; a cyan key light as the moon.

Rendered in Blender 5.2 . 240-frame loop

Viewport to final — your case-study format, in motion.

Blender build

1. Faces below the front are deleted so the Mesh to Curve wires show through; above it, the solid mesh.
2. A tight sin(r·π)^5 band lights the boundary between the two.
3. Built as Geo Nodes rather than a compositor pass, so it works per-object and ships as an asset.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A wireframe world spinning — product / showcase spin.

Blender build

1. Mesh to Curve turns the edges into curves, swept to thin tubes for the wireframe.
2. A dot instanced on every vertex stops the wires reading bald.
3. Full 2π orbit with a Tilt; seam delta 0.0.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Falling light on a wet floor — the core mood, moving.

Blender build

1. Drops fall on 1 − frac(phase + hash) and wrap, so the rain is endless and seamless.
2. A drop is a stretched cube — at speed that is all a streak is.
3. Brightness rises as it falls, so the streaks read as catching the neon.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Steam curling off a 2am bowl — pure comfort.

Blender build

1. Resampled curves curling on 4D noise with W on the loop phase, so the churn returns to itself.
2. Drift widens with height, so it opens out like real steam instead of rising in a column.
3. Thins out at the top via a smoothstep on b3b_amp.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A retro-computer type-on — The Lab, booting up.

Blender build

1. Coord = (row + column) / Rows — a whole row types left to right, then the next row down.
2. Row index from object Z measured from the top, column from X, both normalised over Width / Height.
3. sin(r·π)^6 · Cursor Glow is a tight cursor riding the leading edge. Peak b3b_amp 1.61.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A projected panel — scanning, flickering, alive.

Blender build

1. frac(z·Density − t·Speed) in object Z, through a Map Range line profile = scrolling scanlines.
2. A second band travels up Z; max() of the two, plus a Fresnel rim.
3. Alpha drops to Base Alpha 0.22 between lines. Time comes from the View Layer frame_current attribute — no driver.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A specular glint travelling across the mark.

Blender build

1. Changes no geometry — it only writes b3b_amp, so it layers on top of anything.
2. Distance to the band is measured on the circle (frac, then fold about 0.5), so the band re-enters from the far side instead of popping.
3. Seamless: the band’s peak travels while frame 1 and frame 97 match exactly.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A neon grid floor racing to the horizon.

Blender build

1. Lines from frac(x·Scale) distance-to-cell-edge, Map Range SMOOTHSTEP for the soft edge.
2. Y scrolls on the clock; radial distance drives both the horizon fade and the rust → cyan ramp.
3. All in object-local coords, so scaling the floor object does not change the grid.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Fireflies / embers drifting up through humid air.

Blender build

1. Each ember rides the same loop with a hashed phase offset, so the column is continuous and still wraps.
2. Smoothstep fades at both ends mean nothing pops into or out of existence.
3. Geo Nodes rather than a particle sim — a sim cannot loop seamlessly or ship as a droppable asset.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Warm ↔ electric — day into dusk, the brand breathing.

Blender build

1. A split-flap board: tiles flip a half turn as the front sweeps the grid diagonally.
2. Driven by LoopTime’s Ping Pong, so switching there and back is one seamless loop.
3. b3b_band carries the diagonal, so a material can colour the two modes differently.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Words snapping into place — your tagline with rhythm.

Blender build

1. String to Curves hands back one instance per character — that instance index is what staggers the letters.
2. Letters drop in and land with the family’s sin(r·π) overshoot pop, applied on instances.
3. Fill Curve DROPS point attributes, so b3b_amp is re-derived from the bounding box after the fill.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A flat mark lifting into dimensional depth.

Blender build

1. Coord = position projected on Axis ÷ Extent — the same sweep as WipeReveal.
2. The cube instance is shifted +0.5 Z by Transform Geometry so it grows out of its base, not through the floor.
3. Scale is (Thickness, Thickness, (r + pop)·Height + Base); Base keeps a footprint visible before it grows.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A cyberpunk skyline growing out of the grid.

Blender build

1. Coord = (x + y) / (2·Extent) — an isometric diagonal sweep.
2. Per-building height is hash(index)^2 across Min → Max, so it is mostly low blocks with a few towers.
3. Blocks are shifted +0.5 Z and scale only in Z, so they rise out of the ground.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A translucent orb with a glowing rim, turning.

Blender build

1. Principled Transmission 1, IOR 1.45, Roughness 0.03.
2. A Fresnel raised to ^3 drives Emission Strength, so only the silhouette lights up.
3. Rim Glow 1.2 peaks ~1.7 — over a Glare threshold of 1.0 on the rim alone, which is the point.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Reflections sweeping across worn metal.

Blender build

1. One Noise stretched hugely along object X — Mapping Scale (1, Grain, Grain) — so it varies across the brush, not along it.
2. That noise drives Roughness 0.14 → 0.44 plus a 0.02 bump for glints.
3. Principled Anisotropic is avoided on purpose — EEVEE Next does not render it. Spin it with RIG_Turntable.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A hypnotic swing — the simplest perfect loop.

Blender build

1. Rod and bob rotating on sin(2π·phase)·Max Angle — sin wraps, so the swing is seamless.
2. b3b_amp peaks at the centre of the arc, where a real pendulum is fastest.
3. A uniform effect: cross-point spread is legitimately 0, so it is verified over time instead.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Endless scrolling type — a ticker that never stops.

Blender build

1. u = frac((x + L/2)/L + phase) — a piece leaving one end re-enters at the other, so the belt is endless.
2. Both ends fade symmetrically over Fade Ends, which hides the teleport.
3. Driven by B3B_LoopTime, so it loops with no crossfade (seam delta 0.0).

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A sine wave travelling through a field of points.

Blender build

1. B3B_LoopTime turns the frame into a phase that wraps: frac((f − Start) / Period · Cycles).
2. Z displacement is sin(2π(r/Wavelength − phase)) with a radial falloff — the wave travels outward.
3. Seamless by construction: frame 97 evaluates identically to frame 1 (measured delta 0.0).

Rendered in Blender 5.2

The equalizer, wrapped into a pulsing ring.

Blender build

1. Curve Circle → Instance on Points; rotate each bar to face outward.
2. Sample Sound Frequencies with Low/High driven by Index, log-spaced.
3. Ping-pong the band index so the ring reads symmetrically; emissive + bloom.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Levels dancing — teal to red on the peaks.

Blender build

1. A row of segment cubes along X.
2. One broad band through Sample Sound Frequencies gives the level.
3. Compare (level > i/N) lights each segment; ramp teal → camel → red.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

The mark punching apart on every kick.

Blender build

1. A compositor group — the kick drives a horizontal RGB split, a few-percent swell of the whole frame, and a bloom spike.
2. Geo Nodes amplitude cannot reach the compositor. The envelope is extracted with the Mesh Line + Sample Sound Frequencies trick, read back with to_mesh, and written as keyframes on the Kick input.
3. Verified independently: autocorrelation of the envelope peaks at lag 12, and 125 BPM at 25 fps is exactly 12 frames per beat.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

An oscilloscope trace riding the sound.

Blender build

1. A line of points along X (Geo Nodes).
2. Sample Sound Frequencies — drive Time from Index so each point reads a different moment in the track.
3. Leave instances centred (not base-shifted) so they mirror about the axis; cyan emission + bloom.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Ripples firing outward on every hit.

Blender build

1. Instance a unit Curve Circle per ring, scaled to its radius; Realize → one Curve to Mesh.
2. Time Offset = −ring × delay — outer rings show older hits, so beats visibly travel outward.
3. Emission driven by amplitude; bloom.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A ball hitting the floor on the kick.

Blender build

1. Ball plus a floor ring that widens as it rises.
2. Amplitude has no attack — build an envelope: max of N look-back taps × decay^k.
3. Drive height + squash/stretch. No simulation zone needed, so it evaluates on any frame.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A ring breathing with the waveform.

Blender build

1. Curve Circle; sample the points around it.
2. Time driven by angle, so one lap of the ring is a time window; offset each point radially by amplitude.
3. Curve to Mesh for the stroke; emission + bloom.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

The frame flashing to the beat — use sparingly.

Blender build

1. Exposure flash, a small black lift and a bloom spike across the whole frame, driven by the beat.
2. Same baked-envelope route as Bass Hit Chroma — one extraction feeds both.
3. Use sparingly: the Lift knob keeps the frame from going fully dark between hits.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

An ocean of cubes rolling in a ripple.

Blender build

1. Grid of cubes, height from sin(2π(r/Wavelength − phase)) — a concentric wave travelling outward.
2. Cubes shifted +0.5 Z by Transform Geometry so they grow from the floor, not through it.
3. Seamless off B3B_LoopTime; seam delta 0.0.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A glowing ring turning in space.

Blender build

1. Swept from two circles — a circle profile along a circle spine — so Major and Minor Radius stay real sockets.
2. A highlight band travels round the ring from atan2 of position, folded about 0.5 so it re-enters from the far side.
3. A full 2π turn per period; seam delta 0.0.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Reflections sliding over polished metal.

Blender build

1. Principled Metallic 1, Roughness driven by the Polish knob (0.035).
2. A Layer Weight Facing term tints the grazing angle silver → teal, so it reads B3BOP rather than generic chrome.
3. Needs an environment to reflect — pair with WRL_SignalDusk_Night or the emissive grid floor.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Parts flying apart to show the build — then back.

Blender build

1. Rides B3B_Reveal but driven by LoopTime’s Ping Pong, so apart-and-back is one seamless loop.
2. Coord is a hash of Index, not distance from centre — on a sphere every point is equidistant, which made all parts flip at once.
3. Parts fly out by (1−r)·Spread and tumble by (1−r)·Spin.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A satin band flowing through the frame.

Blender build

1. Resampled curve displaced by a travelling sine along its Spline Parameter, then Curve to Mesh with a flat profile.
2. A sin(t·π) taper settles both ends so the band never stops mid-air.
3. Attributes are stored on the CURVE — Spline Parameter does not resolve after Curve to Mesh, which flattened b3b_amp to a constant until fixed.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Instances strewn across a surface, twinkling.

Blender build

1. Distribute Points on Faces, so density is independent of the input topology.
2. Every piece runs the same loop with a hashed phase offset — the field twinkles and still wraps.
3. Twinkle drives scale and a small Z lift together; seam delta 0.0.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Overgrowth creeping up — solarpunk in motion.

Blender build

1. Coord = distance from a Seed Point ÷ Reach, then a Noise adds Wander so the growth front is not a perfect circle.
2. Each leaf gets its own hashed heading and curls open as it lands — (1−r)·Curl on X.
3. Leaves are icospheres flattened to 0.35 in Z.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A globe of points, slowly turning.

Blender build

1. Icosphere → Mesh to Points, then an icosphere instanced on each point.
2. A full 2π revolution over the loop period — seamless because a full turn wraps exactly.
3. Per-point hashed size jitter stops it reading as a regular lattice.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

An organic form breathing — living, not machined.

Blender build

1. 4D Noise Texture displacing an icosphere along its normals.
2. B3B_LoopTime's phase drives the noise W, so the churn returns to itself — seamless, measured seam delta 0.0.
3. Displacement also writes b3b_amp, so the material lights the bulges.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A shape breaking into cells and reassembling.

Blender build

1. Rides B3B_Reveal — breaking apart is a reveal run backwards (Progress 1 = whole).
2. Coord comes from Voronoi Colour, which is constant per cell, so a shard flies as one piece instead of dissolving into dust.
3. Shards fly outward by (1−r)·Spread and tumble by (1−r)·Spin.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A spectrogram wall lighting up left to right.

Blender build

1. Grid; col = Index mod N → Time Offset (history), row → frequency band.
2. Uses Time AND Low/High as fields at once — a whole spectrogram out of one node.
3. Instance cubes, height by amplitude; the sweep runs low → high.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A field rippling out from the beat.

Blender build

1. Grid; Time Offset = −distance × delay so the beat travels outward as a wave.
2. Set Position Z by amplitude, with a radial falloff so the edges settle.
3. Smooth-shade and colour by height.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Points exploding outward on every hit.

Blender build

1. Ico sphere points; normalise position for the outward direction.
2. Envelope (peak-hold + decay) so points fire on the hit and ease back.
3. Offset outward by rest + env × burst; emission + bloom.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A whole grid breathing in time with the track.

Blender build

1. Grid → Instance on Points (cubes).
2. One low band through Sample Sound Frequencies scales every instance in unison.
3. Keep instance scale well under the point spacing or the cubes fuse into a solid slab.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Rings racing toward you — flying through the sound.

Blender build

1. Rings receding on −Z: Curve Circles instanced along a Mesh Line.
2. Time Offset = −ring × delay — depth becomes time.
3. Perspective camera down the tunnel; ring radius by amplitude.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A spectrogram bent into a radar sweep — angle is time, radius is pitch.

Blender build

1. Grid points placed by Set Position at (r·cos θ, r·sin θ); rotate each cell to its sector.
2. Sector → Time Offset, ring → frequency band — both fields, one node.
3. Scale cell width with radius or the sectors collide at the hub.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Rows of history stacked into a ridgeline. Every row behind is an older moment.

Blender build

1. Rows from a Curve Line + Resample Curve, instanced along a Mesh Line.
2. Realize Instances first, then col = i mod N and row = floor(i/N) span every row.
3. Row → older audio, X → a time window. A sin(t·π) taper settles the edges flat.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

The spectrum wound into a spiral — bands climbing as it turns.

Blender build

1. Points on a spiral: angle = t·turns, Z = (t−0.5)·length.
2. Band from Index, log-spaced; bars rotated to radiate outward.
3. Bars radiate, so a head-on camera sees them end-on — frame it 3/4.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A planet whose latitudes ripple, each band reading its own slice of the track.

Blender build

1. Ico sphere; normalise position for the outward direction.
2. Latitude → frequency band — each ring of the shell reads its own range.
3. Displace along the normal and smooth-shade. Tilt before the clamp or the shell blows up.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A turbulent field that churns on its own and swells with the track.

Blender build

1. Grid displaced by a 4D Noise Texture (W = Scene Time × flow) so it evolves by itself.
2. Amplitude scales the displacement — the music drives an organic surface, not a graph.
3. The soft counterweight to the hard-edged spectrum pieces.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A city block where every tower is a frequency band. Ties straight into the iCity work.

Blender build

1. Grid of buildings: X → band, rows behind → older audio.
2. Height by amplitude, varied widths so it reads as architecture not a chart.
3. Depth rows make it a skyline instead of an equaliser.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

The B3BOP mark breathing on the beat — the most directly on-brand of the set.

Blender build

1. Text object → curve → mesh, fed into Geo Nodes as the input geometry.
2. Envelope (peak-hold + decay) drives scale, or per-letter offset via Index.
3. Keep it subtle — the mark should pulse, not wobble.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Radial symmetry, mirrored petals — a spectrum folded into an ornament.

Blender build

1. Petals instanced around a circle; band from Index, ping-ponged for symmetry.
2. Mirror across several axes so it reads as ornament rather than a meter.
3. Petal length and emission both driven by amplitude.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A wave crossing the field in one direction — the flag to Ripple Plane’s pond.

Blender build

1. Grid; Time Offset = −X × delay so the wave travels along one axis.
2. Contrast with Audio Ripple Plane, which propagates radially from the centre.
3. Add a cross-axis falloff so the edges settle.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Points scattered on any mesh, density and size on the beat. A modifier for other work, not a standalone piece.

Blender build

1. Distribute Points on Faces over any input geometry.
2. Amplitude drives density and instance scale; envelope for the pop.
3. Drop it onto the forest, a client model, or the mascot — it travels.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Pieces fly in from nowhere and settle — or run it backwards and it’s a dissolve.

Blender build

1. Scatter direction from a deterministic hash of Index (no Random Value node — its socket indices are unreliable).
2. B3B_Reveal gives each piece its own 0–1; offset = dir × (1−r) × Fly Distance, plus a tumble.
3. Reverse toggle flips r, so one group covers assemble AND dissolve.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A scan line crosses the frame and the geometry builds in behind it.

Blender build

1. Coord = position projected on Axis, normalised over Extent.
2. B3B_Reveal drives piece scale; sin(r·π)^3 makes a tight band that peaks mid-transition.
3. That band feeds b3b_amp, so emission spikes exactly at the leading edge.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

Growth spreading outward from a seed point, like something taking root.

Blender build

1. Coord = distance from a Seed Point, divided by Radius and clamped.
2. Radial counterpart to Wipe Reveal — same core, different Coord.
3. sin(r·π) adds an overshoot pop as each piece lands.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

A straight wipe across any object, with a small pop as each piece lands.

Blender build

1. Coord = position projected on an Axis, normalised over Extent.
2. B3B_Reveal turns that into a per-piece 0–1 with stagger and easing.
3. sin(r·π) adds the overshoot as each piece arrives.

Rendered in Blender 5.2

The mascot’s face, one LED at a time — blinks, dissolves, scrolls, glitches.

Blender build

1. Faces are written once in code (faces.py) and baked to a dot map: 1 pixel = 1 LED.
2. A 30×20 grid samples it per dot; face A → B dissolves dot by dot on a random per-dot timing.
3. Same grid, more modes: scrolling text (raycast into letters), glitch rows, audio EQ bars.

Rendered in Blender 5.2 . 7.5 s loop