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Visualization Plugins & G-Force, Oh My!

Posted by Hemos on from the making-things-pretty dept.

Feedmag is running a story about Andy O'Meara, the guy behind G-Force, as well as some other aspects of the visualization for plugins for *Amp, XMMS etc. Playing around with the visualizations is a huge amount of fun, and it's interesting to see what types of music produce different visuals. And unlike psydelics, it's legal.

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  1. The correct link: by joshwa · · Score: 5

    http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id =1690

    left out a trailing zero...

  2. Re:exit poll visualization by bnenning · · Score: 3
    72% of the people who voted for Bush believe that Lieberman's religion made him a bad choice for V.P.

    This is wildly off-topic, but the poll says no such thing. The poll says that 8% of voters think that Lieberman's religion made him a worse candidate, and of those 8%, 72% voted for Bush.

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  3. O'Meara must be doing well now... by Noer · · Score: 3

    I'm surprised that article didn't mention O'Meara's recent deal with Apple. G-Force is the default (and, currently, the only) viz plugin for iTunes (which is especially weird since there were many viz plugins for SoundJam, from which iTunes is derived). Anyways, O'Meara must be doing well from this deal - at least, I hope he is.

    On a side note, something that I think would be interesting (though I don't know how possible) would be a visualizer that used some of the algorithms that have been developed for musical comparison (the same sort of algorithms that are being used to identify mp3s of copyrighted songs, for example). Looking at the structure of the music, rather than just a spectrum analysis, might allow some really cool visualizers :)

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    1. Re:O'Meara must be doing well now... by sakusha · · Score: 4

      Yeah, he talked about the deal with Apple in a separate article at WIRED, which has an entirely different take on O'Meara's situation.

      http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42870,00 .html

      Note that O'Meara says his deal with Apple convinced him he could make a living as a programmer, but now he talks more like he's forced to cease all development of GForce now that he's on active duty, and he's "profoundly depressed."

  4. I'll be the first to say it by the+real+jeezus · · Score: 5

    For the naive among you, this isn't better than acid. However, it certainly is better on acid.



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