They fall quite short of a complete translation of auditory to visual sensation, but for certain types of music, music with a clean seperation of sound, they achieve it. "Hypnobloom, Gigertron, Upcuber, and Distortion are my attempt to realise synaesthesia through graphics hardware. Users will need a 3D video graphics card complete with support for shader model 2.0 and above, but that is pretty standard at this time. The Psychedelia Visualization pack is designed to integrate seamlessly with both Windows Vista and Windows XP. The entire, official, Microsoft release process," Cowley added.
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I spent about 8 months of free time tinkering with this, and then spent a year in delays (mostly) and then certifications and requirements and checks and UGH man, what a hassle. In lay-speak, we made music vizzes that could use a fancy gaming graphics card to do interesting things with music. Steve (the coworker) fixed some bugs in it and added some awesome post-processing filters. "I took the WM vis framework and got a direct3D render context into it. Users will be able to enjoy Album Art 3D, Bubbles, Distortion, Gigertron 3D, Hypnobloom, Ribbons and UpCuber. The Psychedelia Visualization pack contains no less than seven items that will bring your Windows Media Player to the next level. It was too late to do more screensavers, but the windows media people, seeing how nice the screensavers were, had asked for visualizations that matched. Two years ago, a fellow graphics hacker coworker mentioned how he was doing the screensavers for Vista, since the official ones had gotten cut. "A project that I've been keeping under wraps for two years has finally completed. The Visualizations pack was put together by two Microsoft employees, Tim Cowley, a member of the Office Team and Stephen Coy from the User Interface Strategy Team. Via the Windows Vista Psychedelia Visualization pack you too will be able to translate the music playing in Windows Media Player into colors, shapes and motion.