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- From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago)
- Subject: Re: Psychedelic Animations
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.075718.11149@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 07:57:18 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.195434.15473@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- In article <1992Jul25.195434.15473@ccu.umanitoba.ca> takeuch@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Travis L Takeuchi) writes:
- >
- >Hi folks!
- > A group of associates and I are planning on holding a rave in the near
- >future. One idea that we had was to rent a couple of Wide screen televisions
- >and run psychedelic animations during the rave. Does anyone here know of any
- >programs (PD) or demos that contain psychedelic animations?
-
- I haven't checked out too many of the PD programs for doing psychedelic
- imagery but I can recomend a couple of comercial programs, although they
- may now be out of production. I have used these to produce something called
- "psychovideo" live with the musical group Psychowelders.
-
- First - the A-Squared _Live_ board with the Elan's Invision software.
-
- This wonderful combo does live video digitizing, 16 grey levels or
- ham, and re-maps colors, mirrors images, cycles, some neat video effects.
-
- The main fun thing is that the software allows each key, shifted and
- un-shifted, to be a different effect, pallette and color cycle and the
- mouse functions control different things depending on direction and if the
- left, right or both mouse buttons are pressed.
-
- But all that is fairly academic - the main thing is to start it running,
- get some good video going into the digitizer and start pressing keys and
- buttons and moving the mouse randomly. Let those million monkeys inside
- you take over. The only problem that I've had with my preformances is
- art students coming up and telling me that they "liked my art", and having
- to explain that it is just me hitting buttons, and that "art" has nothing
- to do with it.
-
- Second - the Visual Aurals _MindLight VII_
-
- Fun little box (round transparent plastic) plugs into the second mouse
- port, and a fragile, goofy piece of software goes into the drive.
-
- The manual made a valient but futile attempt to make sense of the program.
-
- Too strange for words.
-
- Just give it some music and hit some keys. Can work with the Live board too.
-
-
- Are the glory days of weird Amiga products over? Have the truly strange
- programmers and hardware designers all finally been locked up? I want more
- toys, dammit!
-
- Chris Williams
- katefans@chinet.chi.il.us
-
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