In the first issue of his newsletter, Victor Tao writes about his latest music visualizer, Song Pong:
Lately I've been experimenting with music visualizers. One of my favorites is inspired by the classic arcade game pong. In classic pong a ball bounces off of paddles in a steady rhythm. What if we synchronize the bounces to the beat of a song, making the paddles dance?
To make this possible we alter the physics of the game so that the ball moves at a constant speed, and paddles can move anywhere on their respective halves of the screen.
Here's the visualizer handling the William Tell Overture:
Previously:
• A trippy program that makes you the DJ of your own art
• Ferromagnetic liquid 'dances' to music
