Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

(kagan.in)

64 points | by kaganin 4 days ago ago

22 comments

  • Jaxan 4 days ago ago

    As someone who grew up with Milkdrop, these seem a bit dull/minimalistic.

    • kaganin 2 days ago ago

      fair enough

  • mikodin 4 days ago 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 :)

    • gausswho 4 days ago ago

      The repo has a LICENSE that declares MIT. Bottom of README.md does too, with some caveats about fonts.

      • mikodin 4 days ago 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!

        • gausswho 3 days ago ago

          I do too, all the time.

    • kaganin 2 days ago ago

      glad you liked it! let me know if you end-up doing something <3

  • horacemorace 4 days ago 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.

    • 1e1a 4 days ago 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 4 days ago 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

    • kaganin 2 days ago ago

      appreciate the feedback!

    • sameobjectearth 3 days ago ago

      [flagged]

  • dvh 4 days ago 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.

    • herrherrmann 4 days ago 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 4 days ago ago

      thanks for the feedback! i’ve increased the spacing on mobile, so it should be clearer now which caption belongs to each animation.

  • hellojomp 4 days ago 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.

  • 4b11b4 4 days ago ago

    Can you make them all move on repeat for a sine sweep followed by some misc transients

    • kaganin 2 days ago ago

      yup, will do it!

  • Keyframe 4 days ago ago

    would be helpful to hear the sound as the viz goes by.

    • kaganin 2 days ago ago

      will add this!

  • rydra_wong 4 days ago ago

    This is sweet, love the aesthetic.

    • kaganin 4 days ago ago

      thanks a bunch!