Visualizing Drum Styles with Bouncing Balls

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Published 2019-02-11
I synchronized drum and cymbal hits on a drum set to bouncing balls in a 2-D physics simulation.

The ball positions were not generated automatically, I found where to put them through trial and error. In the future I am looking into possible ways to automate this process.

This was particularly tricky to do because the simulation is non-deterministic, so sometimes when I would try to record the screen or put my CPU under load, the physics would behave differently.

Hopefully this helps people who want to see the difference between different drum styles in a more visual way. Thanks for watching!

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Thanks to Free Drum Loops for providing the audio:    / @freedrumloopshu  

All Comments (21)
  • @prodyoru
    this looks like one of these "90% will fail this satisfying game" ads
  • @LARAUJO_0
    1:41 I like how the balls smacking into each other are the drumsticks
  • @fureversalty
    1:43 when the balls collide with each other, making a drum stick click is frickin genius
  • @The_GreenHub
    i love that the amen break is just its own genre
  • @Omegasphere
    That is not black met... ohh nevermind you got it.
  • i loved the part where the DIGITAL CIRCLE RENDERS collided, that was really well thought out
  • Can we just appreciate the level of determination it must’ve taken him
  • "Bro" "Yeah?" "Dont tell anyone.. but I've been skipping leg day." Black Metal "Blasphemy."
  • @kaix7_163
    It's 4 am, I woke up to a pigeon trying to fly into my room and I find this in my recommendations. I love life
  • @mastod0n1
    Why is this so satisfying? As a musician these patterns aren't foreign to me but it's so mesmerizing to watch and listen to them this way.
  • @Nitrxgen
    0:57 upset me, there's no hi-hat visuals but there's audio
  • @mr.foogle3004
    There's something... special about that amen break. It's just so recognizable and it's low quality is just unmatched.
  • @crowz6247
    Didn't feel like the Black Metal one was working at first. Thennnnnnnnnn