Oddly soothing shapes and colors in motion

March 2, 2015 11:55 AM

Animated Gifs by Florian de Looij (SLTumblr)

Rocking circles.
Phases of the moon in rainbow.
Rainbow light beams.
Perpetual square construction.
Trippy chevrons.

posted by royalsong (13 comments total)

Neat, but you've got a very different definition of "oddly soothing" than I do. I found a lot of these rather stress-inducing.
posted by bondcliff at 11:58 AM on March 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

They remind me of loading animations.
posted by backseatpilot at 11:59 AM on March 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

I recently decided to put a screensaver on my laptop and was horrified to learn that windows no longer ships with all of those trippy screensavers it once had. That was most of my motive in using a screensaver.
posted by tofu_crouton at 12:02 PM on March 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

I like these. Some of them bring back fond memories of the old 60 graphics design textbooks we used in school.
posted by bonobothegreat at 12:33 PM on March 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

I like these. Please tell me how I can instantly begin making them myself.
posted by SharkParty at 12:35 PM on March 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

For more well-made GIFs, very different in style, check out Micaël Reynaud.
posted by exogenous at 12:35 PM on March 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

SharkParty: Processing! The tutorials on that site are a good place to start, as is the excellent Bees & Bombs who sometimes posts the source codes to his images on his twitter.
posted by Caconym at 1:00 PM on March 2, 2015 [3 favorites]

Trippy chevrons had me totally transfixed. When my partner asked what I was looking at and I wordlessly handed him my phone (for I had lost the power of speech) he looked at it for three seconds then said "It's hurting my eyes." Soothing is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
posted by billiebee at 1:02 PM on March 2, 2015

They remind me of loading animations.

Here you go.
posted by hellphish at 1:24 PM on March 2, 2015 [2 favorites]

Thanks, Caconym!
posted by SharkParty at 2:25 PM on March 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

When AR is widespread, these are the type of thngs I would pay to put "on" my wall.

I'm sure my guests could cope.
posted by Slackermagee at 7:24 PM on March 2, 2015 [1 favorite]

Yeah, Trippy Chevrons is a pretty accurate visualization of what you start seeing when it's time to leave the spray painting station for a while. Would really be enhanced by audio of that "meeying meeying meeying meeying meeying" sound that happens, too.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 6:15 PM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]

See also: Admiral Potato
posted by Hot Pastrami! at 10:53 AM on March 4, 2015 [1 favorite]