Advanced Audio Visualization Using ThMAD

Description

Learn advanced techniques and improve your audio visualization skills with Thinking Machine Audio Dreams (ThMAD). With this book, you can concentrate on advanced examples and usage patterns, including using shaders in a more profound way, and how to incorporate ThMAD into a tool chain using the professional sound server JACK. Advanced Audio Visualization Using ThMAD provides advanced techniques for generating graphics, improving performance, and providing readers with the skills needed to create more interesting visualizations. You will also learn professional setups with highly developed visual and aural art tool chains. What You'll LearnUse the ThMAD software for advanced setups in their personal and professional projectsGain a pragmatic introduction to using shadersUse JACK sound servers with ThMADControl the timing ThMADWork with advanced configurationsWho This Book Is For Artists and developers already familiar with ThMAD and looking to enhance their projects. In addition, readers primarily interested in using shaders or the Jack audio server for graphics generation can benefit from the book as well. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Program Operation (Peter Späth)....Pages 1-11 Insight into Meshes and Particle Systems (Peter Späth)....Pages 13-38 Timing (Peter Späth)....Pages 39-44 Shaders (Peter Späth)....Pages 45-73 Stories I (Peter Späth)....Pages 75-169 Stories II (Peter Späth)....Pages 171-194 ThMAD and the JACK Sound Server (Peter Späth)....Pages 195-204 TMAD and ALSA (Peter Späth)....Pages 205-210 Controlling ThMAD from the Outside (Peter Späth)....Pages 211-218 Configuration (Peter Späth)....Pages 219-222 Back Matter ....Pages 223-229