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- magicmarc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31I think that animation on the site itself is a live demo. Or its a coincidence that when I clap my hands, it does seem to work.
- justinm1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30Small minds say "amuses" instead of "amuse".
- PCheese, on 10/22/2007, -2/+18Apple has a strong security model in place to prevent Quartz Compositions from being used nefariously. The demo on the page runs locally on your computer; and nothing is being recorded. (It would be impossible to do so.)
There's a similar trick where a Quartz Composition on a website can display the video feed from your iSight; it looks scary, but again the video is only visible to you and cannot be recorded. - cyclopsface, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15The live demo is scary: does that mean that websites can record my computer's microphone?
um, "Helllloooooo websiiiiiteeee!!" - Systembomber, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19Don't digg me down for asking since this is for Mac OSX but is there something like this for WIndows / Linux?
- psycx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Alternate download link - http://homepage.mac.com/pcheese/external/soundstream/get/Soundstream15.dmg
- eMadman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Who was the brilliant mind who thought people would pay money for screensavers? Who was the idiot that decided to buy them? I mean seriously... these are only visual applications that show up when you are NOT at the screen...
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Look on the site - http://www.pcheese.net/software/soundstream/itunes.html
http://www.pcheese.net/software/soundstream/keynote.html
http://www.pcheese.net/software/soundstream/desktop.html
You can run it as an iTunes visualizer, Keynote background (No idea why you'd ever want to do that, but, well, you can) or desktop background as well as a screensaver..
- Ben - PCheese, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9The first version of Soundstream was up and running rather quickly; that's the beauty of Quartz Composer. Still, tuning it to look the way it does in version 1.5 did take quite some time. It's easy to produce something rough in Quartz Composer, but getting the details right on my first composition was tough. Feel free to look at the source; the macros and links can be rather complex at times.
I agree with your comment (except the part about it being nothing special ;), and I encourage people to mess with Quartz Composer and see what comes of their experiments! That's how Soundstream was born.
You may want to glance at the FAQ I put together: http://dl.pcheese.net/software/soundstream/faq.html - Carleton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This screen saver was created with Quartz Composer. Quartz Composer is distributed on the OS X 10.4 - it is one of the most amazing applications I have ever seen. I have several similar screen savers on my site http://caleb.poeticpublishing.com and there are some more (really incredible) screen savers here: http://www.zugakousaku.com/index.php?m=project&id=quartz&s=sample&p=31_MonaLisa&l=jp
I'm really surprised that there aren't more screen savers like this floating around out there. You can pull of some pretty stunning effects rather easily with Quartz and to install a Quartz composition as a screen saver you only need to drop it in your screen saver directory. - LuckyKarma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My friend and I are having a competition of who can make their computers look better, his IBM Thinkpad vs. my Macbook. I can't wait to hear what he says about this!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You can change the sensitivity in the options if you'd like. Mine is going crazy just from having the TV on.
- ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6There's a demo on the homepage, that actually works...
- ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6My personal favorite screensaver. I use it on my MacBook and my Mac Mini.
Fenêtres Volantes! http://www.objective-cocoa.org/fenetresvolantes/en/index_en.html - deadbeatpoet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I work with the person who wrote Soundstream! He's just about the nicest kid I've ever met--and one of the smartest. Coincidentally, I donated through his website the day before this post appeared on Digg. If you like this program, please donate a few bucks--he deserves credit for his creativity and resourcefulness. If you don't know already, the address is http://pcheese.net
Good job, JD! - bsippel9708, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, this screensaver is amazing. My girlfriend was actually really excited about it and this has to be the first time she got excited about something found on Digg - News - Technology - Apple.
- mr3xcellent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3anyone remember cthugha?
http://www.afn.org/~cthugha/ - SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've just started out goofing with Quartz Composer, it's flat out awesome. It's so simple to use all you have to do is work the logic out in you head and connect the patches up and hey presto! Still, it's on of these things that's easy to be good at but not so easy to be great at.
I'm especially interested in the sound and video handling in it. There is potential to really easily achieve some great effects, like these. - TannerLD, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9There is Electric Sheep which looks cooler, but doesn't respond to anything.
- macwiz1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Electric Sheep is awesome.
http://www.electricsheep.org/ - morcheeba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If you've got a mac, you can see the source code by opening the soundstream.qtz file. Otherwise, here's a picture of the code (it's in a visual language):
http://www.glowfoto.com/static_image/25-131811L/8250/png/02/2007/img3/glowfoto
Apple has been really good at developing core technologies that make it easier to code for their platform. - ruslanr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6The cool thing about this screensaver is it responds to sound. Plus you can change the settings like size and number of streams, their speed and how sensitive it is to noise. I won't say anything about Electric Sheep because I've never seen it.
- ruslanr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Try blowing at it (making noise, obviously). You'll scare the crap out of your friends.
- thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Another sound-responsive Quartz Composer OS X saver: http://www.doomlaser.com
- mulletmusketeer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'm a big fan of this one (http://www.objective-cocoa.org/fenetresvolantes/en/index_en.html) by Fenetres Volantes. It takes all the active windows, and lets them glide around in 3d, twisting and turning. It's definitely the best I've seen.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6http://www.maddogsw.com/flurry/
Not sound-responsive, but it's the Windows version of the default OS X screensaver (Flurry). I don't think it would be too much more work to make it respond to sound-levels - The source code is provided with the screensaver so if someone who knows C++..
- Ben - ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I almost forgot, LotsaWater is a pretty sweet screensaver.
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/lotsablankers/lotsawater.html - speedyrev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Hasn't your screensaver ever kicked in while you were at your desk?
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5It's quartz, another reason QuickTime pwnz. Allows full 3D, interactive shiznit to run in any QuickTime movie.
- Dracomantis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Wow..... You mean i can have such a huge range of lame ass WMP effects on my mac?? and pay for them???
- Drewboy64, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I like it but it's defiantly NOT the best (not trying to dis soundstream. Soundstream is still really cool). The coolest screensaver that I've ever seen and that I have used for the passed 1 1/2 years would be the Electric Sheep Screensaver. I can't watch movies in my room with friends with the computer on because it's so distracting. I highly recommend you check this one out as well at http://www.electricsheep.org/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd use electric sheep if it was in HD. (And don't tell me about the high fidelity one; they want money, or processor usage, and that's dickheaded of them)
- Dracomantis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Is it installed? if so turn the sensitivity up!
If its not... and the demo dosnt work without you yelling.. your mic blows - ruslanr, on 10/12/2007, -12/+13Here's a video demo: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DDcp-l6Rqoc
It's totally awesome! - petereality, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1wtf kind of mac doesn't support QE/CI?
- petereality, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1omg, like, r u super popular now?
- petereality, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1he might throw a curveball at you and install OSX86, then you'd be screwed...
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2theres the psychedelic screensaver for windows which reacts to sound, its quite old however , i first ran it on windows 98.
http://synthesoft.com/
All 3 of those react to sound. I think you have to use the bundled media player called cdspectrum pro. God its been years. But it for sure racts to microphone input as well.
This gives you an idea of just how old it is.
All three screen savers now include Synthesoft's new WinAMP* Plugin which allows you to sync the screen saver graphics to music being played by WinAMP*. We also include a plugin for the Windows Media Player 7. - realnebby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3There is a volume sensitivity slider in the options.
- polo3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Here's some openGL scr's for the rest of us.
http://www.reallyslick.com/ - PCheese, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Not built-in, but iTunes Visualizer support does exist thanks to iVisualize or Jax. Take a look at http://www.pcheese.net/software/soundstream/itunes.html when you get a chance.
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- capitocapito, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Any Windows or Linux port?
- jm1234567890, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I built something like this the other day when learning about quicktime compositor... I thought I was original :(
- cinchel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2i like tha ability to use it as a desktop background...and it doesnt seem to suck up a lot of ram..and i am only using a G4 iBook. very nice...the itunes visualizer is just ok though.
- ryanschmidt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I got all excited, thinking it was something new but it's the same one I had awhile ago. I guess I will say though that it's a great screensaver and it will impress the friends. DOWNLOAD IT
- ruslanr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2darkamsterou, you can adjust volume sensitivity. It works with me by just blowing at it.
- hbfarker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The LotsaWater screensaver is pretty slick. Thanks for the link :o)
- ers35, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No, I've turned mine off.
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