Geeky Desktop Wallpaper

This instructable is something I did a long time ago when I was in college to make my Windows 95 desktop look more cool than that of my friends.

Forgive me if the wallpaper is a measly 800 x 600 but I hope you are able to create your own HI Res ones after going through this.

You can see what the wallpaper effect looks like in the video below

 

The effect looks like as though signals are passing through the circuit of the motherboard in the wallapaper in tune with the songs playing in Winamp.

Materials
Winamp + Advanced visualization Studio vis plugin (installed by default)
The attached wallpaper (download the zip file)

This instructable is best understood by doing it yourself first only then will it be easier to understand what I am trying to do, later you can use your own images the way you want.

Step 1 Set wallpaper

I could have used screenshots here but I think the procedure is simple enough.

The very first thing to do is to set the attached image as a wallpaper (800x600). It is very important you do not resize or dither or antialias or stretch the image in any way. On my old PC the desktop resolution was set to match the size of the wallpaper (800 x 600) but nowadays much higher resolutions have become the norm.

For the best effect you should set the desktop reolution to be the same as the wallpaper resolution or just tile/center the wallpaper. Once again do not stretch it.