[$] An introduction to projectM

Many people have seen music visualizations before, whether in a musicplayer on their computer, at a live concert, or possibly on a home stereosystem. Those visualizations may have been generated using the open-sourcemusic-visualization software library that is part of projectM.Software-based abstract visualizers first appeared along with early MP3 music players as asort of nifty thing to watch along with listening to your MP3s. One ofthe most powerful and innovative of these was a plugin for Winamp known asMilkDrop, which wasdeveloped by a Nullsoft (and later NVIDIA) employee named Ryan Geiss. The plugin wasextensible by using visualizationequation scripts (also known as "presets").

Subscribers can read on for a look at projectM by guest author (andprojectM maintainer) Mischa Spiegelmock.