I think AI tools like Stable Diffusion have a big potential.
Something along the lines of what Nexxus 604 is doing.
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#22Do not take drugs! its bad for you
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#23I miss Winamp
It will never as glorious as it was back in the day, but Milkdrop 3 was released in 2023 and works on any audio on your system.
On Android the free ProjectM app hasn't been updated since 2022. Does anyone know how to install Milkdrop 3 on Kodi for Raspberry Pi or in F-Droid? Kodi is also on Android.
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#24IMO the most realistic generated psychedelic images were made by Google's Deep Dream 10 years ago. It seems like it's been mostly forgotten about after the advent of DALL-E, Midjourney, etc.
Agreed, it made some seriously wild stuff. Assuming you’re talking about this: https://research.google/blog/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-... Here’s an example I generated in 2015: https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/drea... Source image: https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/mars...
Eh a lot of that ‘deep dreamy’ stuff ends up looking so same-same - I don’t need to look at endless various of ‘dog faces and insect body parts and glittering gemstones’ you know? I want to see actual weird stuff, bizarre genometry, a sense of space that’s mind-bending. Maximalism is not the be all end all of trippy visuals.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, it made some seriously wild stuff. Assuming you’re talking about this: https://research.google/blog/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-... Here’s an example I generated in 2015: https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/drea... Source image: https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/mars...
Eh a lot of that ‘deep dreamy’ stuff ends up looking so same-same - I don’t need to look at endless various of ‘dog faces and insect body parts and glittering gemstones’ you know? I want to see actual weird stuff, bizarre genometry, a sense of space that’s mind-bending. Maximalism is not the be all end all of trippy visuals.
I believe this music video (Röyksopp - Impossible) was created with something along those lines:
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#26Very nice! Reminds me of something I built on Shadertoy a while back: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttGRf
Nice! Where does one learn how to do this kind of thing (aside from the fractals)?
https://iquilezles.org/ is a legend, see the articles and video tutorials.
Aside from shadertoy I use https://glslsandbox.com/ (for some reason it has https errors now). It's the same concept and it has a lot of submissions that are more basic than shardertoy where you can easily change lines and see what happens.
My intuition for these kind of shaders: They are just pure functions mapping an x,y coordinate to a color (optionally making use of time and cursor position). From this you can derive anything, like drawing a circle by choosing black or white depending on the distance from the center. There is a lot of intuition to gain and it's fun playing around, because as long as it compiles you will see something and you are likely to be surprised about what you accidentally made. Very rewarding.
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#27I miss Winamp
This reminds me of Winamp too.
As a teenager I used to fiddle with the visualization editor for hours. Good fun!
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, it made some seriously wild stuff. Assuming you’re talking about this: https://research.google/blog/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-... Here’s an example I generated in 2015: https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/drea... Source image: https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/mars...
Eh a lot of that ‘deep dreamy’ stuff ends up looking so same-same - I don’t need to look at endless various of ‘dog faces and insect body parts and glittering gemstones’ you know? I want to see actual weird stuff, bizarre genometry, a sense of space that’s mind-bending. Maximalism is not the be all end all of trippy visuals.
Check this one out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuBpKqtHdY
And this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd3ZQOzyquo&t=385s
The AI generated ones are getting really good nowadays.
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#29So cool! Would love to be able to easily make it full screen (maybe I'm missing the button for that)
Bookmarked
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#30I love these projects, I've been really passionate about including our own sensory inputs into the experience, whether it's voice, webcam input or (in the future health metrics) in order to tailor the experience to the experiencers' desires.