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dvh
On mobile when I scroll few pages down while only looking at images, it is impossible to tell if caption is above or below image, where it belongs.
herrherrmann
I guess you cannot see the almost-invisible borders of the images. They group the image and text together a bit better. But yeah, the design fails to be accessible in less ideal viewing conditions for sure.
kaganin
thanks for the feedback! i’ve increased the spacing on mobile, so it should be clearer now which caption belongs to each animation.
Jaxan
As someone who grew up with Milkdrop, these seem a bit dull/minimalistic.
hellojomp
It hurts me that 160 sound visualizations later I am less interested in sound than I would've been with one, just one, compelling viz.
mikodin
Wow, these are beautiful! Are you open to others using these in applications? There is no license in the repo so I am unsure :)
gausswho
The repo has a LICENSE that declares MIT. Bottom of README.md does too, with some caveats about fonts.
kaganin
glad you liked it! let me know if you end-up doing something <3
horacemorace
None of these help me understand what the sound is like because they’re all time-domain which runs way too fast for humans to intuit. Visualizations in the frequency domain are a lot more natural.
TomGarden
Overall I agree I don't "see" a lot in most of these, but there are actually a few spectral visualizations in there that are a bit more telling
1e1a
A lot of them have degrees of freedom which are wasted instead of being used to convey more information.
kaganin
appreciate the feedback!
Keyframe
would be helpful to hear the sound as the viz goes by.
4b11b4
Can you make them all move on repeat for a sine sweep followed by some misc transients