Winamp's visualization plugins transformed music listening into a psychedelic art form, with community created plugins like MilkDrop generating real time fractal animations synchronized to audio frequencies that became as important as the music itself for many users. Ryan Geiss's MilkDrop used sophisticated mathematical algorithms to convert audio spectrum data into flowing, morphing visual experiences, spawning entire communities dedicated to creating and sharing visualization presets with names like "Flexi's Mindblender" and "Unchained's Particle Storm." The plugin architecture exposed deep audio analysis capabilities, allowing developers to create everything from simple oscilloscopes to complex 3D environments that responded to bass drops, tempo changes, and harmonic content in ways that made every song feel like a unique light show. When Geiss open sourced MilkDrop in 2005, it led to ProjectM, a cross platform implementation that has kept the visualization dream alive across Linux, Android, and modern media players like VLC and Kodi. Today's streaming services prioritize convenience over customization, but projects like ProjectM prove there's still a hunger for the deeply personal audio visual experiences that made Winamp feel like a digital synesthesia machine.
#Winamp #MilkDrop #ProjectM #visualization #opensource

Anime.js v4 is a lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple, yet powerful API https://lobste.rs/s/pgusbz #browsers #design #javascript #visualization
https://animejs.com

#programming #visualization #consTrees #dataStructures #lisp #commonLisp #McCLIM https://screwlisp.small-web.org/clim/cons-tree-graphics/

A tiny bit of window dressing for the CLIM 2 spec's FORMAT-GRAPH-FROM-ROOTS. Which I use a lot because it is vanishingly little work, paste or type in some cons trees, voila, they merge matching symbols because I set that to happen, I can press a button to change the graphs, all great.

@jackdaniel (Thanks for McCLIM).

An accidental discovery: astronomers find a spiral structure in the Oort cloud by chance after data from a simulation were visualized in preparation of a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium

news https://apnews.com/article/museum-planetarium-oort-cloud-b0050c65ebff830812b505cdd8c476ec
research paper https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b

From Prometheus to RRDtool graphs https://lobste.rs/s/iesqc6 #devops #visualization
https://phala.isatty.net/~amber/hacks/promgraph

#ReleaseTuesday — New version of https://thi.ng/tsne with ~15-20% better performance[1] due to avoiding repeated internal allocations and skipping gradient updates where unnecessary...

[1] Benchmarked with multiple datasets of ~750 items, each with 192 dimensions (now ~165ms @ MBA M1, 2020)...

I’m Open-Sourcing my Custom Benchmark GUI via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/sv6btr #performance #visualization
https://probablydance.com/2025/05/31/im-open-sourcing-my-custom-benchmark-gui/

#programming #graphing #plotting #visualization #timeSeries #gnuplot #commonLisp #lisp #example https://screwlisp.small-web.org/programming/common-lisp-invoking-gnuplot/
I could not even find my own previous articles and #demos of this online!

I used #uiop run-program to handle one specific case like

(gnuplot "bad title" '((1 2) (3 4)) '((5 6) (7 8)))
or equivalently,
(apply 'gnuplot "bad title" '(((1 2) (3 4)) ((5 6) (7 8))))

Do you personally have an example? I remember it being hard to dredge up gnuplot examples but this is beyond silly.

Visualizing the World's Shadow Economies https://www.voronoiapp.com/crime/Visualizing-the-Worlds-Shadow-Economies--5018 #maps #visualization

How Do Countries Dispose of Their Household Waste? https://visualcapitalist.com/sp/lrf01-household-waste-management/ #maps #visualization

Buckaroo - a Table UI to expedite data analysis for notebook environments https://lobste.rs/s/p51plh #show #lisp #python #visualization
https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo

Stunning new visualization from NASA’s Webb Telescope explores the Cosmic Cliffs, a spectacular ridge of dust clouds, sparkling with a myriad of stars, along the edge of the nebula Gum 31

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/new-visualization-from-nasas-webb-telescope-explores-cosmic-cliffs/

About a month ago, I was nerdsniped by @joachim, and I set foot on an adventure inside of Wikidata, data processing, visualization, and more. Read on https://anisse.astier.eu/wikidata-communes-viewer.html

Doom GPU Flame Graphs https://lobste.rs/s/egqrcs #performance #visualization
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-01/doom-gpu-flame-graphs.html

#LabPlot, the project for #statisticians, #researchers, #scientists, #engineers, #educators and #students, publishes version 2.12 of its #FREE comprehensive #dataAnalysis and #visualization tool.

This version adds more plots and #plot sub-types, expands the number of functions for spreadsheets, includes new analysis tools, as well as an experimental software development kit.

The project is partly funded through @NGIZero.

https://labplot.org/2025/04/28/labplot-2-12-released

@labplot@lemmy.kde.social @9to5linux @omgubuntu

#OpenSource

Labplot 2.12.0 released for Haiku (32bit and 64bit), now available for install.

https://apps.kde.org/labplot/

Bluefish https://lobste.rs/s/s0jqjx #design #visualization #web
https://bluefishjs.org/

Hi everyone, I'm currently having an extremely hard time finding reviewers for a paper at @jovi which relates to visualization, simulation, and orbital dynamics. The review version is public at https://www.journalovi.org/2024-rein-rebound/ and the reviews will be public and (optionally) attributed as well. Please ping me if interested, and RT for reach!