Visualizing Electricity

Re:Visualizing Electricity by ly on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:01PM (#23145039)

In case the author of the video reads this: I tried to watch it but after 2 minutes I just had to turn it off as I couldn’t handle that music anymore. It’s extremely distracting when you try to listen to what the narrator is explaining. It’s not that I don’t like background music in explanatory videos, but this music is way too loud and complex to not distract.

Also, considering the video is uploaded to YouTube, I would remove the moving white “stars” in the background. The model itself is very detailed already, which makes it noisy after running it though YouTube’s compression, but the moving stars cause there to be even less bandwidth available for the visualization itself, resulting in more compression artifacts.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by acqq on Monday May 11, 2020 @03:01PM (#23145683)

> It’s not that I don’t like background music in explanatory videos

And I'm totally against it. It is always distracting to me. If I'd want to have background music I could play it myself, and it would match my choice. The only videos that should have background music is where the music is in any way an important element of the story, e.g. if the topic is the work of an artist or composer. Otherwise, it is distracting.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by nixpulvis on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:30PM (#23146651)

A catchy intro is nice tho.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by acqq on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:53PM (#23146938)

Intro != background

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by nixpulvis on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:10PM (#23147106)

true

(two can play at this game)

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by mickfaraday on Monday May 11, 2020 @03:13PM (#23145817)

noted.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by mickfaraday on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:03PM (#23145061)

Cool. Thanks for the suggestion- i'll pass it along. You can mute the audio and still read the titles. Same info.

Also, i'm pretty sure those are other distant atoms, not stars.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by mncharity on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:08PM (#23149843)

Fwiw, another user experience report: I managed to overlook the existence of the video, until seeing it mentioned here in comments. A white video arrow, overlaid on the white center of the poster image. My fuzzy recollection is I classified it as a decorative title graphic, as I skipped past it while reading.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by Answerawake on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:55PM (#23145631)

Also, stop making the text box slide in and out. This adds nothing and is distracting. Just make it appear and disappear.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by mickfaraday on Monday May 11, 2020 @03:13PM (#23145816)

noted.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by jdbz on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:05PM (#23147063)

I liked the video the was it was.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by mickfaraday on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:10PM (#23147110)

thanks!!

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by throwanem on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:21PM (#23147234)

Same! Whatever its didactic virtues, as a piece of art it's marvelous.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by mickfaraday on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:00PM (#23148241)

thanks. love!

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by glogla on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:48PM (#23146876)

Opposing anecdote: I liked the music. It made the video feel nostalgically educational, which is the feeling I get from the whole site.

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Re:Visualizing Electricity by mickfaraday on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:01PM (#23148258)

Thank you. We want to make science beautiful and full of possibility.

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