Anne has created a wonderful program to look at! You have a selection of bars surrounding an ellipse in the center. The bars pulse according to the rhythm of the music in the background. They change color randomly in a gradient and some of the bars even change drastically color, giving the illusion that some of the bars are in different layers.
It reminds me a lot of the music player on Windows computers many years ago, where a similar visual was shown on screen when listening to music, pulsating and/or changing patterns according to the music playing.
Some of the syntax was not familiar to me such as 'new' and FFT and amplitude, but I assume it is used for the audio and the bars, picking up the amplitude of the music. There is also a lot of variables in play, especially in the more completed for-loop. Luckily there are a good amount of comments, helping the user navigate in the code :)
I really like music as well, Pentatonix has a special place in my heart too! That's probably one of the reasons to why I enjoy the program, it is very aesthetically pleasing and capturing to look at! One thing that I am unsure of, is whether it classifies as a buffer, when you think of the classic definition of a throbber. It does do a kind of throb motion/pulsing, but as said before, I see it more as something to look at, representing the music playing - but it could be your own interpretation!
For expansions and/or improvement, I think it would be cool to be able to skip - maybe make it a whole little radio panel with pause and skip - I accidentally pressed the button while being halfways through the program, so I had to "start over". But otherwise it is a very well executed program, that looks very smooth and works perfectly!
Anne has created a wonderful program to look at! You have a selection of bars surrounding an ellipse in the center. The bars pulse according to the rhythm of the music in the background. They change color randomly in a gradient and some of the bars even change drastically color, giving the illusion that some of the bars are in different layers. It reminds me a lot of the music player on Windows computers many years ago, where a similar visual was shown on screen when listening to music, pulsating and/or changing patterns according to the music playing. Some of the syntax was not familiar to me such as 'new' and FFT and amplitude, but I assume it is used for the audio and the bars, picking up the amplitude of the music. There is also a lot of variables in play, especially in the more completed for-loop. Luckily there are a good amount of comments, helping the user navigate in the code :)
I really like music as well, Pentatonix has a special place in my heart too! That's probably one of the reasons to why I enjoy the program, it is very aesthetically pleasing and capturing to look at! One thing that I am unsure of, is whether it classifies as a buffer, when you think of the classic definition of a throbber. It does do a kind of throb motion/pulsing, but as said before, I see it more as something to look at, representing the music playing - but it could be your own interpretation!
For expansions and/or improvement, I think it would be cool to be able to skip - maybe make it a whole little radio panel with pause and skip - I accidentally pressed the button while being halfways through the program, so I had to "start over". But otherwise it is a very well executed program, that looks very smooth and works perfectly!