From Urban Heat Maps to AI-Driven Patching
The 35th vvvv Worldwide Meetup once again brought together the global patching community—both in Berlin and online—for an evening of ambitious ideas, experimental tools, and inspiring projects. As always, the presentations ranged effortlessly from scientific visualization and immersive installations to entirely new ways of building software.
Rosie (Remony4444) opened the evening with an interactive visualization of Frankfurt’s urban heat islands. Built with the fuse library, the project transforms open city data into a dynamic 3D particle simulation, revealing “cold places” such as fountains and public spaces while encouraging conversations about climate adaptation.
Raphael from Montreal’s Supply & Demand studio then took everyone into the woods of Buenos Aires, where twelve Minecraft-inspired installations turned a forest into an interactive playground. Powered by vvvv, the project featured live skeleton tracking, audience-controlled waterfalls, and visitors becoming characters inside the game world.
Alexandra Gavrilova (Stain Studio) presented three thought-provoking artistic works spanning satellite data visualization, quantum-inspired audiovisual performance, and Source—a speculative surveillance project exploring psychological rather than economic profiling.
Gabriela Gordilo continued the artistic thread with an installation that uses translucent objects and light sensors to orchestrate memories through evolving sound and light compositions.
On the tooling side, Randall Vasquez introduced BL Text Interpolation, an experimental system that navigates semantic and phonetic space to create surprising linguistic transitions between seemingly unrelated concepts.
Johannes (Kopffarben) closed the evening by unveiling VOMCP, an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that allows AI agents to directly understand and modify vvvv patches—an exciting glimpse into the future of AI-assisted visual programming.
From climate data and quantum aesthetics to forests full of Minecraft and AI that patches alongside you, Meetup #35 was another reminder that the vvvv community continues to explore the edges of creative technology.
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