Advanced Audio Visualization Using ThMAD

1. Front Matter

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2. Program Operation

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   Pages 1-11

3. Insight into Meshes and Particle Systems

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   Pages 13-38

4. Timing

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   Pages 39-44

5. Shaders

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   Pages 45-73

6. Stories I

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   Pages 75-169

7. Stories II

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8. ThMAD and the JACK Sound Server

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   Pages 195-204

9. TMAD and ALSA

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   Pages 205-210

10. Controlling ThMAD from the Outside

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    Pages 211-218

11. Configuration

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    Pages 219-222

12. Back Matter

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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 Learn

• Use the ThMAD software for advanced setups in their personal and professional projects
• Gain a pragmatic introduction to using shaders
• Use JACK sound servers with ThMAD
• Control the timing ThMAD
• Work withadvanced configurations

Who 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.

• Audio visualization
• OpenGL
• Ubuntu
• Realtime
• Open source
• Linux
• Graphics
• Video
• Sound processing
• Shaders
• Jack

• Leipzig, Germany

  Peter Späth

Peter Späth graduated in 2002 as a physicist and soon afterwards became an IT consultant. In 2016 he decided to concentrate on writing books on various topics, but with the main focus on software development. Throughout his career he always preferred to work with open source tools and also favored operating system independent platforms like Java. After using various audio visualization programs, he designed his own visualization suite, ThMAD, to overcome deficiencies for important functionalities, quality documentation, and bug fixes of existing visualization suites.

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