How many old-timers are embarrassed to admit they remember Pong, the first commercial computer arcade game? Who remembers Pong? It gave us visions of the future and Star Trek back in the day! It was designed by Robert Brown, the creator of the home version of Pong. The first electronic music visualizer was the Atari Video Music system introduced in 1976. In more elaborate visualization systems, variations in the loudness and frequency spectrum are among the properties used as input to the visualization process. This imagery is generated and rendered in real-time and is visually synchronized with the sound - the music - as it’s being played. These systems generate animated imagery based on the sound being processed.
The first major commercial music visualizer system was the Atari Video Music in 1976Īctually, Music Visualization has been around since the seventies, and has been available both in hardware-based audio components and in software. Arguably, it’s of little practical use, but it sure looks far-out, as we used to say in the seventies. This article talks of a feature that can be considered pure and unabashed “eye-candy” - the iTunes Visualizer. One of the many squillions of iTunes visualizers that you can easily generate
Continuing with my series of occasional articles that expose readers to hidden system gems integrated into each and every Mac, let’s take a look at a way to visualize the complexities and nuances of our iTunes music and iTunes Radio.
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