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by pierrec 2425 days ago
Regarding the music synchronization, OK, this is ancient stuff.

However, in terms of graphics, this strikes me as different from anything that was possible before the recent advances in GANs. During the era you're talking about, the art of shader-based music visualizers was being pushed by projects like Milkdrop 2, and nowadays a lot of similar research still happens on Shadertoy, and the demoscene, of course, hasn't stopped blowing people's minds.

But this is on another level entirely. It's as is the content and seemingly human concepts themselves are being smoothly animated.

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this strikes me as different from anything that was possible before the recent advances in GANs

- well this is because you did not see my vis. It looked just like the one you saw on GAN's related link with similar transitions. Except that all imagery was generated by math formulas running in pixel shaders instead of ready bitmaps/videos.

Here is the actual screenshot: https://exsotron.com/exs_files/exvis-0003.jpg

Actually I played with the actual music video clips as a source of the imagery and the results were really cool but obviously other then experiment at home could not really do this part due to copyrights etc.