v1.20.0
Added
- New effect: Lumen — real-time global illumination. A swarm of coloured fireflies lights a soft breathing silhouette, and every light casts long, soft-edged shadows with plausible penumbras. Each firefly is tuned to a pitch class so loud notes light their own lights, kicks pulse the whole room, bass swells the silhouette, and tonal passages thicken the air into volumetric god-rays.
- New effect: Protea — a living Flow Lenia ecosystem fed by the music. Three species of amoebae with membranes and organelles hunt, merge, and divide across a mass-conserving field; loudness is their food, so a quiet passage starves them until they visibly shrink and a loud one brings them surging back. Bass swells their bodies, onsets rain nutrient droplets, and key changes mutate the species region by region.
Downloads
| Platform | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| macOS | .dmg |
Universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel) |
| Linux x86_64 | .tar.gz |
glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+) |
| Windows x64 | .zip |
Windows 10+ |
Getting started
macOS: Open the DMG, drag Fosfora.app to Applications (or run directly). Signed and notarized.
Linux / Windows: Extract, run fosfora from the extracted directory. The assets/ folder must be next to the binary.
Requirements
- GPU: Vulkan (Linux/Windows) or Metal (macOS)
- Audio: Built-in mic or line-in for audio-reactive visuals
- NDI® (optional): NDI® SDK runtime for network video output
- Video playback (optional):
ffmpegon PATH for media layers
NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.