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Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

kagan.in

63 pointsby kaganin21 comments

Jaxan[2 comments hidden]
As someone who grew up with Milkdrop, these seem a bit dull/minimalistic.
kaganin[hidden]
fair enough
mikodin[5 comments hidden]
Wow, these are beautiful! Are you open to others using these in applications? There is no license in the repo so I am unsure :)
gausswho[3 comments hidden]
The repo has a LICENSE that declares MIT. Bottom of README.md does too, with some caveats about fonts.
mikodin[2 comments hidden]
Ah, thank you! I did a quick cmd+f search, and realized now upon seeing your comment that it's one of those words that I consistently misspell!
gausswho[hidden]
I do too, all the time.
kaganin[hidden]
glad you liked it! let me know if you end-up doing something <3
horacemorace[4 comments hidden]
None of these help me understand what the sound is like because they’re all time-domain which runs way too fast for humans to intuit. Visualizations in the frequency domain are a lot more natural.
TomGarden[hidden]
Overall I agree I don't "see" a lot in most of these, but there are actually a few spectral visualizations in there that are a bit more telling
1e1a[hidden]
A lot of them have degrees of freedom which are wasted instead of being used to convey more information. For example, the "vector scope" visualization appears to just be some sort of Lissajous figure, whose scale is the only thing controlled by the sound.
kaganin[hidden]
appreciate the feedback!
dvh[3 comments hidden]
On mobile when I scroll few pages down while only looking at images, it is impossible to tell if caption is above or below image, where it belongs.
herrherrmann[hidden]
I guess you cannot see the almost-invisible borders of the images. They group the image and text together a bit better. But yeah, the design fails to be accessible in less ideal viewing conditions for sure.
kaganin[hidden]
thanks for the feedback! i’ve increased the spacing on mobile, so it should be clearer now which caption belongs to each animation.
hellojomp[hidden]
It hurts me that 160 sound visualizations later I am less interested in sound than I would've been with one, just one, compelling viz.
4b11b4[2 comments hidden]
Can you make them all move on repeat for a sine sweep followed by some misc transients
kaganin[hidden]
yup, will do it!
Keyframe[2 comments hidden]
would be helpful to hear the sound as the viz goes by.
kaganin[hidden]
will add this!
rydra_wong[2 comments hidden]
This is sweet, love the aesthetic.
kaganin[hidden]
thanks a bunch!