It's nice, but there's a million animations just as awesome made every year. Are we going to post all of them here?
It's a very fine piece of work; maybe the blog author just got a little carried away by his emotional response to it.
Note: I'm not doubting you - I actually thought the video clip looked beautiful so I want to know what you mean when you imply it could have been done better.
Compare to this piece: http://vimeo.com/1755557
Very beautiful also, but much more composed and not primarily driven by music data.
Apple's Motion is also very good in this area, including responding to MIDI which is a royal pain to achieve with AE - particularly annoying to me since I have several MIDI devices and would love to be able to generate keyframe data by twiddling knobs I already have. Ho hum...anyone know of dynamic midi resources for Javascript (ie not just passing a midi file to the audio driver)?
Update-- In fact, the video ain't playin' (FF 3.013, Fedora 10 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64)
Now you could offload a lot of this work to the GPU with some planning, and employ numerous little tricks and dare-i-say-it hacks, but I'd say the earliest you'll see this running in real time is when the 2015 32-core Mac Pro hits the streets.
edit: I'm being pessimistic. 2012 is more likely.
