~/lab/visualizer
A frequency-reactive visualizer that turns whatever's playing into moving shapes on screen.
Pulled out of mothballs while debugging the Jukebox's still-open active-character glow bug — needed a smaller surface to test animation-frame timing against, away from the rest of the Betwixt codebase.
Vidya Patil
Lucy Walters
Johnny DJ
Chris Cosell
Analyser node throws a silent SecurityError if the <audio> element's crossOrigin isn't set before the src is assigned, not after. Cost an afternoon before I noticed the error was silent.
One client resolves the character asset (has to be a live GROQ dereference query, not a hardcoded CDN URL, or asset updates go stale). The other is the read-only client for everything that isn't the audio source. Keeping them separate is what made the dual-client setup provable.
Graduate into Betwixt as a real character-audio feature, or stay a standalone demo? The glow-bug tie-in argues for graduating it; nobody's asked for audio-reactive characters yet, which argues for leaving it alone.