I remember the days of the 386 and 486 computers where I first saw some trippy screensavers with kaleidoscope geometric like patterns. Of course the hippies from the 60's and 70's can relate from their wild LSD trips.

Anyway with the advent of computer graphics, faster math co-processors etc. there's something called Psychedelic Geometry where computer generated pattern generators are making technological leaps and bounds. What I find amazing is how hallucinogens can produce these types of visual escapades inside the human brain and how similarly close they can be generated with computer graphics.

Pretty trippy stuff!

Bert Tyler from the "Stone Soup Group" that made Fractint, one of those fractal generation program back in the day still maintains it, but it runs in a dosbox.

https://fractint.org/
download link:
https://fractint.org/ftp/current/DOSBox/

I guess micro dosing is/ was a thing?

Having spent 40 years as a programmer and also someone who did a good deal of LSD back int he early 70's, there is a part of me that would love to learn whatever language one needs to know to create LSD trip like hallucinations. That said, my career really beat me the last 10 years so at the moment, the thought of trying to learn a new language seems like a chore I just do not have the energy for. We'll see. Maybe as I get further into retirement and further from the work aspect of it that I might get the bug to persue something like this but I think and hope instead I'll be putting my efforts into making music instead.

That said, it would be nice to have an app that creates colorful LSD like images that I could take a puff of a joint and sit back and get lost in the colors. I'd prefer things that were less structured though. Many of the images in the video looked like buildings and people and things that were related to reality where I'd be more into melting colors and amoebas pulsating and things that had no hint of reality - sort of like the stuff at the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey.

Anyway, great video and interesting stiff indeed!

trees and flowers swaying in the breeze now for me

Back in my LSD days, there was nothing better than listening to Hendrix. That said, after Hendrix, one of my favorite things to do was go climb a willow tree that we had in our yard that was planted on the edge of a pond so when you climbed it, you could be sitting over the pond. When on LSD, the thin leaves of the Willow were like electric lightning bolts of all the colors of the rainbow. They were so bright it was almost like looking at the sun - I was afraid my eyes would burn out of their sockets yet the colors were so amazing to look at I could not stop. And then they would start to melt so I was staring at thwse brightly lit melting leaves - again, every color of the rainbow. It was beyond amazing. I'd love to be able to recreate those hallucinations.

naturally cooked these days I am

I have seen that one before, but haven't tried it. This one is more modern and advanced:

https://fr.ax/

I think you would really enjoy Frax. I have it and it can generate amazing animated colors and fractal patterns. The only drawback is that it only runs on Apple iPhone and iPad. If you have that OS, I highly recommend it.

https://fr.ax/

I only wish it would be available for the PC and 4K television.

the early visualizations with W7 are still ok with me
occasionally listen a mix plus light show

Thanks for the tout. I do have an iPhone but I never turn it on. It was required for work and after I retired I turned it off. The only time I turn it on and use it is if I take a road trip and I have it with me in case I need a tow. It is too bad it would not run on my iMac. Then I'd likely give it a look see.

Years ago I stumbled on an app somewhere that did the Mandelbrat thing really well and it was cool but still too defined for what I'd like to see.