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The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug-in source code (github.com/geissomatik)
70 points by luismedel 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



The best part of Winamp visualisations, was that you could code/customise your own visualisations [1]. With a few equations and some variables in a limited context (frame, loop, pixel) you could create wild things. It was the first time I was exposed to this type of programming of simple "shaders".

[1] http://www.geisswerks.com/milkdrop/milkdrop_preset_authoring...


This reminds me of some of my favorite visuals with fractal flames made famous by Electric Sheep screen saver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_flame


I remember being blown away by the dancing bear from Lionhead Studios[1]. It was promotional material for their video game Black & White.

[1] https://winampheritage.com/visualization/black-and-white-dan...


This was my favorite visualizer growing up.


Is there a webgl version of this like we have for Milkdrop?

https://webamp.org/

https://butterchurnviz.com/


Wow, a blast from the past!




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