One of the great hopes for a web app future is WebGL, a software library that can enable immersive, 3D graphics directly in a web browser and work across multiple platforms. That hope has been mostly unfulfilled, however, due to sparse support on devices and a relative dearth of apps that take advantage of it, Chrome Experiments notwithstanding. A new programming mashup from Mike Gattis, a co-founder at Hunch, gives us a glimpse of what WebGL apps can be capable of. It connects up SoundCloud music with the MilkDrop music visualizer (which gained well-deserved popularity on WinAmp). The result is a phantasmagoric music show that doesn't really beat the visualizers on modern-day, native MP3 apps but at least shows that WebGL is inching closer to becoming a viable replacement for more native graphics APIs. Gattis intends to offer support for other music services and local uploads in the future. The best part is that if listening to a music mashup while watching this programming mashup isn't mashed-up enough for you, Gattis has released the full codebase under the GNU Lesser General Public License for you to make further mashups of your very own.
Milkshake does music visualization with WebGL
Milkshake does music visualization with WebGL
/A mashup of WebGL technologies and a classic music visualizer, MilkDrop, has been released under an open source license.
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