ADdes

ADdes: Visualizer and Dream Engine

A closed, dreaming android eye in dark profile. From beneath the lid a rainbow fractal spiral unfolds in long glowing filaments. Below it, the word ADdes in glowing letters, and the words Visualizer and Dream Engine.
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A slow, luminous fractal dream engine. It dreams endless new forms from fresh seeds, takes you on voyages through shapes that open up around you, and breathes with a quiet drone or with whatever music you play.

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About 18.4 quintillion seeds. Every dream grows from a 64-bit seed, and that is 264, or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 of them. At about 170 seconds a dream (the default feel lingers for 110 and melts into the next over 60), seeing them all, one after another, would take roughly 99 trillion years.

The dreams and the drone are procedurally generated, so no two experiences are ever the same.

Mushroom trip, not rave

Almost every other visualizer is a light show. This is a slow tide.

Everything that moves is held inside a budget, and the budget is measured. The dream lingers, drifts and breathes. It never startles you.

Nothing flashesNot on the beat, not ever. Any flash counts as a failure in the project’s own measurements.
Nothing jumpsEvery change glides: colour, motion, one dream into the next.
Audio only breathesMusic can deepen the colour and swell the glow. It can never strobe it.

How the calm is measured →

A small taste

Watch one dream become another

Each dream is grown from a seed on your own computer, then dissolved into the next over eight seconds. Choose a feel, or just let it drift.

This is a small re-creation that runs in your browser, so you can feel the idea. The real ADdes runs on your graphics card and is far richer. Keys work here as they do in the app: N next, L more like this, 1 to 0 a feel, Space hold still.

What it is

Six ways in

Dreams

Fractal flames and strange attractors, endlessly new, that unfold, drift, breathe and morph into one another.

Meet the feels

Journeys

Voyages through shapes that open up around you, and neon hallways of frames you pass through.

Fly through

Sound

A drone that sings in the key of the dream, or tints it gently with whatever music you are playing.

Listen

Virtual reality

The dream wraps all the way around you. Lie in bed, put on a Quest, and travel.

Step inside

Calm, measured

A hard budget on speed, brightness change and flashing, measured in the project’s own runs. Not a mood. A number.

The Trance Budget

On your screen

A Windows screensaver, a TV piece, an offline visualizer. HDR when your display has it.

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Lie back

Let it dream.

Full screen, on a TV, as a screensaver, or in a headset. It asks for nothing and it never rushes.

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