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Re:The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug... by canistel on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @05:48AM (#40062385)
Wow, a blast from the past!
Re:The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug... by micheljansen on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:02AM (#40062477)
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...

Re:The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug... by dylan604 on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:35AM (#40064374)
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

Re:The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug... by smusamashah on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:02AM (#40062483)
Is there a webgl version of this like we have for Milkdrop?

https://webamp.org/

https://butterchurnviz.com/

Re:The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug... by green-salt on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @08:26AM (#40063664)
This was my favorite visualizer growing up.
Re:The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug... by pstadler on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:55AM (#40064649)
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...