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by DocSavage 6144 days ago
It's "realistic" in the sense that the animation seems driven by music data input. He wired the graphics to respond to processed music signals and added some additional (random?) inputs.

Compare to this piece: http://vimeo.com/1755557

Very beautiful also, but much more composed and not primarily driven by music data.
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anigbrowl 6144 days ago
I'm actually more impressed byt his one! You are right though, the one in the OP is heavily modulated by spectrographic data from the music. After effects include a crude plugin for this purpose, but the OP animation used a 3rd party one that is constrainable to a particular frequency window.

Apple's Motion is also very good in this area, including responding to MIDI which is a royal pain to achieve with AE - particularly annoying to me since I have several MIDI devices and would love to be able to generate keyframe data by twiddling knobs I already have. Ho hum...anyone know of dynamic midi resources for Javascript (ie not just passing a midi file to the audio driver)?

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