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Show HN: Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip
Sharing an open source project for creating psychadelic art --
using liquid motion, distorted shapes, shadows and light. This tool
works in real-time in the browser using webgl shaders. This
project was inspired by drum & bass / acid techno music, and 90s
rave posters. Use this to create art for a music video, concert
posters, stylized animations in creative projects, or simply to
enjoy alongside some fine music. Use the detailed control menu
(top-right) to set a custom canvas size, adjust animation speed,
control pattern and colours, etc... You can export your creation
as an image or video afterwards. How this works: this tool uses
WebGL shaders to create a real-time animation (with a trippy liquid
/ shadow / blur aesthetic). The animation is created using a
random seed position and mixes in random noise (fractal brownian
motion, 3D simplex noise), so each time you re-run it you're
creating a unique piece of art. Github repo:
https://github.com/collidingScopes/liquid-shape-distortions -----
I hope you enjoy the visuals. I'd love to hear any feedback or
suggestions.
Author : getToTheChopin
Score : 67 points
Date : 2025-03-13 23:26 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (collidingscopes.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (collidingscopes.github.io)
| nimzoLarsen wrote:
| This is so beautiful! The outputs are trippy and the music fits
| well.
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| Nice work
| Distilitron wrote:
| Telefon tel aviv is nice, gfx is crap
| evanjrowley wrote:
| IMO 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.
| yojo wrote:
| 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:
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| https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/drea...
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| Source image: https://www.wandereurope.com/wp-
| content/uploads/2015/07/mars...
| mock-possum wrote:
| 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.
| duskwuff wrote:
| I believe this music video (Royksopp - _Impossible_ ) was
| created with something along those lines:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljnxZypkjn0
| brokenmachine wrote:
| 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.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| Eh, it's close but misses the mark if we're specifically trying
| to match psychedelic visuals. If it were more fractally and
| geometric sure, but the dogs and fish and shit just isn't it.
|
| This is pretty bang on for a high dose -
| https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BALFNVBS20
|
| Or this: https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BBumGiQdP6
| DrSiemer wrote:
| Any way to lerp transitions like Milkdrop does?
| talles wrote:
| I miss Winamp
| DrSiemer wrote:
| 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.
| 01100011 wrote:
| Is it cross platform?
|
| Best thing about milkdrop was that you could use a
| microphone. We brought a projector and screen to a music
| festival (HSMF) in '04 and had a jam circle in our camp where
| the visualizations would respond to the music we were making.
| Definitely a hit way back when before that sort of stuff
| became boring.
| ferociouskite56 wrote:
| 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.
| rtuin wrote:
| This reminds me of Winamp too.
|
| As a teenager I used to fiddle with the visualization editor
| for hours. Good fun!
| andyjohnson0 wrote:
| This is really nicely done. Kudos.
| adzm wrote:
| I really do appreciate the 90s, Video Toaster-esque[1] aesthetics
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster
| sixstring982 wrote:
| Very nice! Reminds me of something I built on Shadertoy a while
| back: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttGRf
| OracB7 wrote:
| Nice! Where does one learn how to do this kind of thing (aside
| from the fractals)?
| WASDx wrote:
| 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.
| deadbabe wrote:
| this gave me an overwhelming sense of melancholy
| bowsamic wrote:
| Why?
| bomewish wrote:
| Presumably nostalgia --- I'm certainly feeling it!
| madmonk wrote:
| Thank you for reminding me about Telefon Tel Aviv.
| j_san wrote:
| Is there a way to make it loop? (So that one only needs to record
| e.g. 20 seconds, after which it loops to save space)
| dole wrote:
| been tumbling down the old Cthugha and Milkdrop visualization
| rabbit hole recently, nice gfx and aesthetics on yours and it's
| always nice to see a fresh take on code
| grahamj wrote:
| ah this takes me back. Thanks ;)
| qwertox wrote:
| I think AI tools like Stable Diffusion have a big potential.
|
| Something along the lines of what Nexxus 604 is doing.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6m3OvB819s
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s_Dtl1U9wU
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| Do not take drugs! its bad for you
| newman8r wrote:
| So cool! Would love to be able to easily make it full screen
| (maybe I'm missing the button for that)
|
| Bookmarked
| w_for_wumbo wrote:
| I 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.
| dalemhurley wrote:
| I love it, it would be awesome if the controls could slowly and
| randomly adjust themselves so over time the images transition.
| mgraczyk wrote:
| Very cool animations, but they don't strike me as "psychedelic".
| A bit too smooth and unstructured.
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