Ego Death

February 19, 2005 11:59 PM

This is truly a trippy animation; Kaleidoscope. Place the cursor in the middle of the square, sit comfortably and relax, and let yourself go for 20-30 minutes
posted by growabrain (34 comments total)

"just the same stuff I always see when I close my eyes.." -Cartman

I used to LIVE that stuff during my LSD years..
posted by Balisong at 12:20 AM on February 20, 2005

yeah that's kinda cool... i like the one on the homepage a bit more though. It also responds to mouse (click+drag) movement.
posted by phylum sinter at 12:25 AM on February 20, 2005

Are these things failing to show up for anybody else? (tried in safari and firefox)
posted by mosch at 12:31 AM on February 20, 2005

This is great. It reminds me of MilkDrop.
posted by painquale at 12:46 AM on February 20, 2005

Firefox worked for me..
The second link is kind of a video card hog, tho..
posted by Balisong at 12:46 AM on February 20, 2005

speaking of LSD years (flash, has sound)

the site is by the guy behind www.virtualom.com
posted by juv3nal at 1:07 AM on February 20, 2005

what was that acid????.exe that I used to spend hours with in the early 1990s? this reminds me of that.
posted by clyde at 1:14 AM on February 20, 2005

what was that acid????.exe that I used to spend hours with in the early 1990s? this reminds me of that.


That was Acidwarp, which has subsequently been ported to Linux.
posted by o0o0o at 2:19 AM on February 20, 2005

Er.. and BSD.
posted by o0o0o at 2:19 AM on February 20, 2005

Not only did it not work for me (Firefox), it hung up my browser.
posted by parrot_person at 3:18 AM on February 20, 2005

I checked it (and really dug it, thanks) in Mozilla, but I too had problems in FF. Seems I don't have the plugin installed, but when trying to install it, everything just stalled. wtf?
posted by LouReedsSon at 3:32 AM on February 20, 2005

this is kinda neat. I liked it.

I have FF as well and it worked perfectly in my browser. Are you guys using the lastest version?
posted by Jim Jones at 4:02 AM on February 20, 2005

This one is simple and nice.
Very talented guy.
Lots more here.
posted by Espoo2 at 4:23 AM on February 20, 2005

This reminds me of a previous metafilter post that I can't seem to find..... Anyone remember the flash game called Fly (I think) where you flew 3 paper airplanes at the same time, with ribbons of color coming out of the back of each one?
posted by Espoo2 at 4:32 AM on February 20, 2005

Some really cool stuff, but the one linked in the post may be the least interesting.
posted by CaptMcalister at 4:45 AM on February 20, 2005

I had the same FF problem but wow, man, I used the "open in IE" widget, and now I really want some mushrooms.
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:07 AM on February 20, 2005

if you enjoy these, check out dextro.org.
posted by atom128 at 6:15 AM on February 20, 2005

This one is simple and nice.

You can make her do painful things if you have a dual-screen setup.
posted by TheCowGod at 6:50 AM on February 20, 2005

I think I've gone back in time.

[this is mesmerizing]
posted by WolfDaddy at 8:02 AM on February 20, 2005

Works in Firefox for me

This is what hyper-speed space/time travel looks like according to every sci-fi show I've ever seen.
posted by jaronson at 8:07 AM on February 20, 2005

I like the cube inside the cube inside the cube one. Thanks!
posted by fungible at 8:25 AM on February 20, 2005

You can make her do painful things if you have a dual-screen setup.

Yowza! That's gotta hurt!
posted by Robot Johnny at 9:28 AM on February 20, 2005

This animation works fine with Firefox, unless you do not have Shockwave installed. You just need to get the Shockwave animation from the offical site, instead of using the Firefox extension manager - for some reason, the extension manager doesn't install Shockwave properly for me, but installing it manually works beautifully!

newfers
posted by newfers at 9:58 AM on February 20, 2005

At last, I understand TimeCube.
posted by SPrintF at 10:38 AM on February 20, 2005

Sweet zombie Jesus. That's some good eye candy.
posted by uosuaq at 10:54 AM on February 20, 2005

Fine in Firefox, with the extension manner to boot.

I played the theme from Doctor Who (various versions of course) and had myself a great time.

Looks around and notices lack of girlfriend...
posted by juiceCake at 11:52 AM on February 20, 2005

I need some Dramamine.
posted by ScaryShrink at 1:29 PM on February 20, 2005

Some really cool stuff, but the one linked in the post may be the least interesting.

At first, I thought that was a snotty thing to say, but actually, it's a testament to how interesting the full demos page is - the main link is very cool, but most of the other links are actually even better. Great find!
posted by jonson at 1:49 PM on February 20, 2005

[This is so good]

The kaleidescope was beautiful, I kept wishing for it to be more colorful though.
posted by mai at 2:16 PM on February 20, 2005

Wish I would've had this while I was rolling last night. Good stuff.
posted by kryptondog at 3:00 PM on February 20, 2005

Oh my frikkin' god.

This is so incredible. Wow.
posted by geekhorde at 5:09 PM on February 20, 2005

So I take it you won't be wanting a copy of my resume anymore, reflection? I'm crushed :'(

How was the Simon & Garfunkle show?
posted by kryptondog at 6:01 PM on February 20, 2005

Great, now I'm late for work.
posted by Smedleyman at 6:21 AM on February 21, 2005

Woah ... throw on some Dead to go with this one!
posted by TDavid at 7:43 PM on February 21, 2005