Comments on: EyeCandy.

Question: EyeCandy.

grahamwell — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:28:25 -0800

EyeCandyFilter: I'm looking for some stunning CGI visuals to show off a new A/V system. Psychedelic computer graphics a-la X-mix are what I have in mind - a shrine to the pulsating, shiny, magic thing. Any suggestions?

I still love my X-Mix videos but surely this is 2005, there must be something exponentially more amazing? Another old favourite is Milkdrop for Winamp. I'm a child who loves flashing colours and bright lights ... please feed me. Download is best (for Windows) but DVD is cool too. (WXGA from a capable PC and DVD to drive the display - 5.1 Sound). It just needs to be beautiful. Oh, and if you know the true name of the 'pulsating, shiny, magic thing', please let me know.

By: alexst

alexst — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:30:59 -0800

http://draves.org/blog/archives/000275.html

By: alexst

alexst — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:33:03 -0800

http://electricsheep.org/dreams/ (No audio with those though)

And by pulsating shiny magic thing, when set to music it is often called a Visualiser. If that's what you mean?

By: chuma

chuma — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:03:46 -0800

Cthugha has been around forever, and I think it was probably the original "pulsating, shiny, magic thing" that responds to music.

By: PenDevil

PenDevil — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:25:35 -0800

What about some demos?

By: Chunder

Chunder — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:57:17 -0800

One of the first things that I do when I get my shiny new 37" LCD TV, is connect up my Amiga (or possibly my Mac mini and make do with emulation...) and crank out some of the old demos - Jesus on E's, Spaceballs, 9 Fingers, etc.
Perhaps not quite what PenDevil suggested, but similar!

Unfortuantely the quality of these demos is traditionally not up to high-resolution standards - they're more about cranking out good effects with low RAM/CPU usage.

Try and snag some HD demo files for movies or games...

There was also another thread recently about pulsating, shiny, magic screensaver things - you may find some of those useful...

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:30:26 -0800

I'll second electric sheep. It is truly amazing. If youre looking for winamp visualizations, you can't get any better then G-Force.

By: justkevin

justkevin — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:19:38 -0800

Even though it's about five years old, the SereneScreen Aquarium looks amazing as a screen saver on my A/V system.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:18:06 -0800

I find the eSheep are perfect no matter what the music.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:54:51 -0800

JESS

By: meehawl

meehawl — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:51:40 -0800

Media Center has a somewhat advanced IDE for programmatically creating and tweaking visuals. You can embed visuals, Flash, and HTML objects into custom "Now Playing" screens and tweak away, pulling in tag data or whatever. It also runs G-Force.

But Cthugha was and is brilliant. When I saw it on a friend's PC back in the early 1990s it was one of the main reasons I bought a PC and a shiny new 16-bit (!) sound card.

By: grahamwell

grahamwell — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:10:25 -0800

Thanks, electric sheep does indeed rock. If that's what my puny Pentium can do, I'd really like to see what a modern supercomputer could come up with.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:31:57 -0800

That's what a network of puny Pentiums (and a lot of G4s and G5s) can do. Each frame is rendered by an individual computer on the eSheep network, then packaged as a movie and sent to your machine. What you're seeing is playback, not rendering.