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Everyone who used a PC in the 2000s remembers this screen 👀🪟

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Why it worked

The video taps into nostalgia by recreating a familiar and iconic visual from the past, which resonates with a broad audience who experienced that era of computing.

Summary

The video displays a Python script that animates the "Starting Windows" screen. It uses Matplotlib to create colored rectangles and text that fade in sequentially, mimicking the iconic boot-up animation.

Structure

1Display Python code for animation
2Define colors and positions for rectangles
3Create and append rectangles to the plot
4Add 'Starting Windows' text
5Define update function for animation
6Show the final animation

On-screen text

pyvisual.py > PYTHON PROGRAMMING COURSE > pyvisual.py fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 5)) fig.patch.set_facecolor("black") ax.set_facecolor("black") ax.axis("off") colors = ["#FF2522", "#FF7BA0", "#FFB0EF", "#FFB050"] positions = [ (4, 3), (7, 3), (4, 1.9), (5.1, 1.9) ] blocks = [] for color, (x, y) in zip(colors, positions): rect = Rectangle((x, y), 1, 1, color=color, alpha=0) ax.add_patch(rect) blocks.append(rect) text = ax.text( 5, 1, "Starting Windows", color="white", fontsize=16, ha="center", alpha=0 ) def update(frame): for i, rect in enumerate(blocks): delay = i * 15 if frame > delay: alpha = min(1, (frame - delay) / 30) rect.set_alpha(alpha) if frame > 60: text.set_alpha(min((frame - 60) / 30, 1)) return blocks + [text] ani = FuncAnimation( fig, update, frames=150, interval=30, blit=True ) plt.show() Starting Windows