F.Loyd
Audio visualizer
F.Loyd is an audio visualizer inspired by the album cover for Pink Floyd's
Dark Side of the Moon. The waveform is the white light on one side,
and the spectrum history is the rainbow of light on the other, making
the tetrahedron in the middle both a prism and, metaphorically, the Fourier Transform.
The centroid of the sound corresponds to the rainbow's current colour, and
the total magnitude corresponds to the prism's rotation speed (when toggled
on) as well as its shader graph colouring. The illusion of the 2D Pink Floyd
reference can be broken by turning on camera rotation and circling around the
tetrahedron. The narrative audio, created in ChucK, follows the arc of someone
at a party or club, starting off slow, getting caught up in the music, and
letting it fade away as they shut the door behind them.
Keyboard Controls
F, R, O: camera rotation controls; F and R rotate in opposite directions and each have three rotation speeds, increasing each time the key is clicked; fourth F/R key input will stop the camera position where it is; O resets the camera rotation to its starting positionSpace: toggles prism rotation on/off
K: starts the ChucK narrative audio