I’m diggin it. Someone pass me a smoking apparatus of some sort. I would love it if Apple deployed this to the iPod/iPhone line.
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I love it!
Check out the rest of the work of Robert Hodgin. This stuff is based off the ‘processing’
http://www.flight404.com/blog/
http://processing.org/
oops forgot to finish my sentence.
* This stuff is based off the ‘processing’ open source programming language.
Nice addition to the already a better application….
They say it is based on off the ‘processing’ open source programming language! Wow! That taking it to a new direction!
I freakin love it. I had one of the beta’s of magnetosphere before, and I really must say that the new one looks incredibly better. Way more polished and smooth. Maybe my favorite part of iTunes 8.
yeah, i really like it
Yeah, it’s cool, I like it. But it’s still got nothing on Electric Sheep.
it’s great! the best part is that, unlike most other visualizations, this one uses almost NO cpu at all. On my MacBook Pro (2.4GHz C2D, 4GB Ram), CPU usage doesn’t go up at all from just normal itunes window with music playing.
Looks great but doesn’t really follow the music at all. You can pause the song and it keeps doing its own thing.
The earlier version at least kept up visually with the music.
When you paused it essentially died down.
This new one just keeps going along song playing or not.
I noticed that too, which is a bummer but it sort-of-kind-of hits certain beats.
Apple people were masters when they wrote the new visualizer. The reason that the ball doesn’t die away when the song is paused, is that the new one is more subtle and delicate than the old one. It now has it’s own life, you see. If you cannot comprehend this, you didn’t yet catch the real magic of this single-piece visualiser.
The new visualizer is stunning, but I have to agree with Ron, it isn’t synced up with the music as well as it should be. I also miss some of the configurability that the classic visualizer offered (http://www.thattalldude.com/main/2008/09/quick-thoughts.html).
Jobs did this to bring back his LSD days in the 60’s and 70’s when he looked at an apple and it turned into a computer.
I have had magentosphere for a while, so it’s not new to me, but it is pretty. That said I almost never use it, instead I use g-force. In fact, I even pay for the subscription it’s so good.
I have yet to see the same thing twice.
I would LOVE to have visualization on the iphone/touch. Although, I wish it was a little more like the 360’s visualization, I can totally veg out to that one.