Next generation DVD screensavers @animations_ag
Next generation DVD screensavers  @animations_ag
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
1. Essentially the ordinary DVD screensaver.

2. DVD logo as a rigid body bouncing against the screen boundary. Slightly unstable simulation as it seems gaining energy towards the end.

3. Two rigid body DVD logos bouncing against themselves and the screen boundary. Dissipative collision simulation for rigid body stability.

4. 100 million non-interacting charged balls under exposure of a weak magnetic field. Parallelisation on Mac MPS using PyTorch.

5. 200 000 massive point-like gravitationally interacting balls having a collective initial angular velocity. Barnes-Hut method was used here, which would benefit from further streamlining - this part took more than 24 hours to render.

Song by @gpcbass called GravityY; a reuse from another video on this channel.

Visuals in Python and FFmpeg
Next generation DVD screensaversSymmetric chaos by 2^27 particles dropped inside an ellipseOne million balls dropped on functionsIncreasingly sized cubes of interacting balls dropped on flat surface2^29 balls dropped in a strong magnetic field (and a bug?)Extruded bronze moose demonstrates the Dzhanibekov effectElectric field lines from oscillating chargePhase space mooseExtruded bronze moose and iron triceratops rotating in free space (corrected)Orion Nebula obscured and warped by a black hole5000 classical balls and quantum wave packet falling on |x|Meissner effect using liquid nitrogen
Alexander Gustafsson |

Next generation DVD screensavers

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