Advanced Audio Visualization Using ThMAD: Creating Amazing Graphics with Open Source Software

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 with advanced 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Program Operation
Chapter 2: Insight into Meshes and Particle Systems
Chapter 3: Timing
Chapter 4: Shaders
Chapter 5: Stories I
Chapter 6: Stories II
Chapter 7: ThMAD and the JACK Sound Server
Chapter 8: TMAD and ALSA
Chapter 9: Controlling ThMAD from the Outside
Chapter 10: Configuration