Weird Graphical Toys / Utilities for Mac?

March 9, 2015 1:33 PM

Hi I'm throwing a party and I'd like to project some weird/cool looking stuff. I have an old white Macbook. So along with some obscure Youtube clips I found I'm looking for things like Xaos, or Electric Sheep, or other weird/nifty toys I can fool around for a bit while projecting. Bonus points if I can walk away from the computer and the program keeps doing something fun. Old-skool / Unixy things A++!
posted by beshtya to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Some of the xscreensaver hacks might work. BSOD is often fun for getting a reaction, and it has some pretty obscure OSes in there.
posted by primethyme at 1:55 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

Andi McClure's GREAT ARTIST
posted by lisp witch at 4:13 PM on March 9, 2015

ProjectM
posted by tomierna at 6:49 PM on March 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

Try out Grapher. It has come with OSX forever. Play around with the 3d graphs and come up with some interesting shapes, save them and run as a photo stream?
posted by curious nu at 7:18 AM on March 10, 2015

Quartz Composer!! It's like Jitter, but it's free and comes with OSX (might have to dl it as part of a dev package).

I used to program visuals for bands and parties all the time, and always in QC. It's great, and if you've ever messed around with MSP/Jitter/PureData it's similar, but its apple so it's very user friendly.
posted by special agent conrad uno at 11:39 AM on March 10, 2015