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A virtual reality 'music sandbox'

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…string theory says that all subatomic particles of the universe are nothing but musical notes. A, B-flat, C-sharp, correspond to electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and what have you. Therefore, physics is nothing but the laws of harmony of these strings. Chemistry is nothing but the melodies we can play on these strings. The universe is a symphony of strings and the mind of God… it is cosmic music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace.
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The result of a generation of engineers who grew up watching Star Trek. I like it.
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It's pretty cool. At first I wondered if it was kind of "demoscene".

Slightly off-topic, but I've been wracking my brain trying to remember a software package that came out a few years ago that has a virtual 3-D GUI where you kind of "fly" around this environment setting up modules and the graphics show this lines flowing through space with LFO's spiraling around (showing X/Y movement along a timeline). It was mesmerizing. Can't remember what it was called.
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Found it. It was called AudioGL. No updates in 3 years, so perhaps its abandonware, perhaps it is just what it is.

https://www.audiogl.com/en/downloads



Here's a vid. If you want to skip the programming stuff, jump to 10:55 and just see the thing go. It's still pretty stunning. But, yea, still a little off-topic. Sorry about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCC9uHHAEuA
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stubbsonic wrote:Found it. It was called AudioGL. No updates in 3 years, so perhaps its abandonware, perhaps it is just what it is.
Yes, it's definitely abandonware. I've scoured the web for a while, only to find pissed off Mac users who apparently bought a non-existent product to rumors of the developer's possible demise (someone is still maintaining the domain, so go figure). I just don't understand why products like these aren't released in the public domain. I guess that's one for the lawyers.
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If it was released into the public domain, or if a group of developers took it on; and made it donation-ware, I would imagine folks who relate to that type of environment would have been excited to support it. I don't remember if this was ever put up as a kickstarter. IIRC, the developer did say that if he didn't get enough interest, he wouldn't be able to sustain the project. Still, the Mac users should have gotten a refund.
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I dug into the AudioGL forums and found the last developer post from April 2014, saying he was nearly finished with the Mac OS port. Looks like a windows release is there but I don't know what kind of state it is in.
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bayswater wrote:The result of a generation of engineers who grew up watching Star Trek. I like it.
Kinda like Star Wars meets Tron meets Minority Report.
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…string theory says that all subatomic particles of the universe are nothing but musical notes. A, B-flat, C-sharp, correspond to electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and what have you. Therefore, physics is nothing but the laws of harmony of these strings. Chemistry is nothing but the melodies we can play on these strings. The universe is a symphony of strings and the mind of God… it is cosmic music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace.
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BKK-OZ wrote:
bayswater wrote:The result of a generation of engineers who grew up watching Star Trek. I like it.
Kinda like Star Wars meets Tron meets Minority Report.
I had the Holodeck in mind.
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bayswater wrote:I had the Holodeck in mind.
Yep.

Meet you in Holodeck 2 in 15 mins.
Don't tell Data, can't stand that guy.
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…string theory says that all subatomic particles of the universe are nothing but musical notes. A, B-flat, C-sharp, correspond to electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and what have you. Therefore, physics is nothing but the laws of harmony of these strings. Chemistry is nothing but the melodies we can play on these strings. The universe is a symphony of strings and the mind of God… it is cosmic music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace.
- M Kaku
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