real-time music visualizations

导读：
　　 Camleonis an OCaml+OpenGL-based library for programming real-time music visualizations(i.e. peye-candyp).
　　Camleon is currently in the very (very!) early stages of development, but the goal is to provide a platform allowing programmers to easily create OpenGL-based visualizations of real-time sound/music input, not unlike the C library plibvisualp.
　　 Roadmap
　　Hereps a rough sketch of how this project will (hopefully) proceed. The goal is to provide the following (in more or less this order):
　　Figure out how to use fftw and OpenGL with OCaml-- done!
　　Build a basic OCaml library for analyzing the spectral content (i.e. the frequencies) of streaming sound -- almost done
　　Implement basic proof-of-concept spectrograph visualizations in ASCII -- almost done
　　Implement basic spectrograph visualization in OpenGL based on above library
　　Build a higher-order analysis library for extracting harmonics, beat detection, timbre, etc.
　　Implement some visualizations based on this high-order analysis
　　Look into releasing these visualization as plugins for Winamp, iTunes, Amarok, etc.
　　Publish an API, evangelize the library as a tool for the visualization community
　　 Why OCaml?
　　Camleon is written in OCaml, a fast and elegant language (fast in the sense that compiled code is only slightly slower than C), and provides a good, hardware-agnostic interface for dealing with OpenGL (via mesa/glut). Because OCaml abstracts away the hardware level with minimal cost to performance, it is an ideal language for visualization, allowing programmers to focus on creating interesting visuals rather than dealing with implementational issues.

本文转自
http://code.google.com/p/camleon/