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VU Meter - Circles

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Miscellaneous: Approved, Audio responsive, Customizable

Type: Web

Age Rating: Everyone

Genre: Abstract

Resolution: Dynamic resolution

Category: Wallpaper

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12 Mar, 2017 @ 5:28pm

6 Jun, 2018 @ 10:24am

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Description

A circular version of the VU meters. Comes with 2 circles that can be configured seperately. Releasing this one into the wild to get some initial feedback, but still have a few features to implement.

Beware of CPU usage. This one can be pretty heavy if you go all out

Options

Show 1 or 2 circles
Background Image/Slideshow
Extensive coloring options for both
Change rotation & rotation speed
Change position
.... and more

Gradient Tips

The gradient will ( read should ) continu its color rotation if values are perfect opposites ( aka 180deg difference in hue ). Thats why Red/Cyan/Red results in a full rainbow instead of going a mirrorer color gradient. There was a bug with this due to floating point maths, but think I fixed that.
When using more than 3 colors as well as the extra gradient, and If you are confronted with hard edge between one half and the other, try adjusting the value a little, either slightly different colors or if using black/white/grays try adding a little color into the value. It can make a big difference.

Images used in examples

http://imgur.com/m7KgW9p

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Bugs

Gradient doesn't always work as intended
Lower bar counts can result in lower values due to averaging, resulting in unused "height"

Updates

Added responsiveness option
Added back in smoothing option
Added in cpu usage estimation.
Removed an unwanted calculation that should improve visuals.
Tweaked the audio processing to feel a bit more responsive in general ( related to the averaging problem )
Limited framerate to audio data updates as there are currently no visuals that would benefit from 60fps. Running at 60fps can still make a small difference tho.
Added in optional fps overlay to show fps & cpu estimates.
Fixed a mistake resulting it not showing stereo data but only the left channel.

Realized rotation animation could benefit from 60fps, so fps gets unlocked when those are used now.

Kinda fixed 2 gradient bugs .. I think I will leave it as it is as I think it allows most gradients to be made , even if it has its quirks.
Added opacity option for each color option ..
Tweaked initial settings a little
Full area is drawn for a short period of time while altering colors/opacity.

Added an opacity option for the full circle ( called layer opacity )
Added blending & blur options per circle. Blending is mostly interesting when using a background image.