A Peek At the Origin of PS3's New Visualizer

Folks at the Gamasutra network had a quick sitdown with the Q-Games team, the people behind the PlayStation 3's new Gaia music visualizer. They discuss the origins of the project, as well as some possible plans for the future. "McLaren explains: 'This representation of the earth is a 3D model with some shaders and SPU trickery going on. We tried to accurately model the earth's atmosphere and have all the correct highlights on the oceans, etc. The texture data is sourced from the NASA Blue Marble project.'"

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Good visualizers for Windows or Linux?

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Any recommendations for good (and free, but not necessarily Free) music visualizers for Windows or maybe linux?

This is slashdot, so I'm sure no one will believe me, but I'm looking for something I can put on my projector and will look cool projected onto the bodies of drunk, semi-naked dancing girls. Yes, being semi-naked is not enough, they gotta have cool computer graphics on them to be interesting.

Re:Oh cool!

[BLKMGK]

Beta, UMD, Memory Stick Duo, BluRay. Probably more I've missed. I'm far from an XBOX fan - the only older XBOX I own are hacked to run XBMC and I only bought a 360 after they began to crack it too. I'm presently working on setting up XBMC on Linux and it's pretty solid but the Linux part can be a PITA. I won't get into an O/S pissing match\debate - we're talking about Sony not MSFT. Sony music and movies are a large part of their business. Know what DVD are hardest to rip these days? In my experience it's Sony's because they dork up the format so badly - I'm ripping my 600+ DVD collection to disk right now so yeah I'm feeling the pain. Guess which music CDs are a PITA to rip? Yup, as often as not it's Sony's! They crap on that format too. MSFT has DRM? Guess who pressures them to put it in? If they want to legally display DVD they have to cowtow to Macrovision and all the rest which means contracts that force them into it - ask TIVO how that works out. Research what MSFT had to do for CableCard certification sometime for a real chill. Sony is as much a part of that crap as any other content company and judging from their media they're big fans of it - rootkits and all. If you think that Sony was unaware of what the company was doing that built their "rootkit" then you need todo more research into that company - they were as close to in-house as you can get and still have deniability.

By all means be impressed by the Sony hardware, it's apparently good stuff. Just don't ever think Sony will ever intentionally give you full access to it for your own means. If you're lucky it will get broken like the PSP and XBOX. I for one hope that it and BluRay die a log expensive death and take Sony with it, they are far far from benevolant.

BTW NGSB is so nebulous that not even Google gives a consistant answer on it. >