Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

 (kagan.in)

54 points | by kaganin 13 hours ago

8 comments

  • Jaxan 11 hours ago
    As someone who grew up with Milkdrop, these seem a bit dull/minimalistic.
  • horacemorace 9 hours ago
    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.
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    • 1e1a 48 minutes ago
      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.
    • TomGarden 8 hours ago
      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
  • 4b11b4 6 hours ago
    Can you make them all move on repeat for a sine sweep followed by some misc transients
  • hellojomp 11 hours ago
    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.
  • dvh 12 hours ago
    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.
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    • herrherrmann 11 hours ago
      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 11 hours ago
      thanks for the feedback! i’ve increased the spacing on mobile, so it should be clearer now which caption belongs to each animation.
  • mikodin 10 hours ago
    Wow, these are beautiful! Are you open to others using these in applications? There is no license in the repo so I am unsure :)
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    • gausswho 7 hours ago
      The repo has a LICENSE that declares MIT. Bottom of README.md does too, with some caveats about fonts.
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      • mikodin 7 hours ago
        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!
  • Keyframe 6 hours ago
    would be helpful to hear the sound as the viz goes by.
  • rydra_wong 12 hours ago
    This is sweet, love the aesthetic.
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    • kaganin 12 hours ago
      thanks a bunch!