General information

From Libvisual wiki

Libvisual is meant as a framework that delivers audio visualisation (read: eye candy generated to the current music you're playing) to multimedia applications. It works by acting as a middle layer between the visualisation plugin and application.

However libvisual provides a lot more than just that middle layer, included is our own fourier engine that supports any dft size, a super highly optimized math framework for vectorized operations, an advanced video framework, gl intergration, morphing between plugins, an universal plugin framework and a lot more.

The libvisual project started somewhere in March 2004 and is over time written by a team of individuals. Dennis Smit has always been the project leader and plans to keep that position for the upcoming time. By far most of the core library is written by him, however many valuable contributions have been made by Chong Kai Xiong, Duilio J. Protti, Vitaly V. Bursov, Jaak Rendmets, Jean-Christophe Hoelt, Sepp Wijnands and others. However not to forget is that most plugins included in libvisual-plugins are visualisation plugins that have been ported over from other applications.

Libvisual has faced problems regarding keeping to their release plan. The biggest issue has been the lack of time that developer could spend on the project. The last year was a disaster regarding our visible activity however with the release of Libvisual 0.4.0 the team hopes to bring a stop to that and open the doors for even more mind blending psychedelic intoxicating visualisation.