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# Music Visualization Shader Requirements

## Overview

These shaders are used to create real-time music visualizations that control LED lights through screen scraping. The goal is to create engaging, psychedelic patterns that react meaningfully to music while avoiding too many visual dead zones (solid black or white areas).

## Core Requirements

### Visual Quality

- Create intricate, evolving fractal-like patterns
- Maintain constant visual interest across the entire screen
- Avoid large areas of solid black or white
- Make the movement aesthetic and artistic, like something you'd see in an interactive art museum
- Must maintain clear foreground/background separation
- Can use SDF functions for depth and dimensionality
- Can have clear visual hierarchy with rim lighting or edge effects
- Can incorporate ripple and wave effects that dissipate naturally.
  - You can use getLastFrameColor() function to get the color of a given pixel of the last frame to do ripple effects and others.

### Audio Reactivity

You use webgl shaders to create the visuals. There are a variety of them in the shaders folder.
These shaders are snippets of a glsl fragment shader that have the initialization and uniform declarations added before rendering.
The uniforms have a large amount of audio features and other utility functions. After the compilation, the first part of the shader looks like this:

```glsl
#version 300 es
precision mediump float;
out vec4 fragColor;
uniform vec4 iMouse;
uniform float iTime;
uniform vec3 iResolution;
uniform sampler2D iChannel0;
uniform sampler2D iChannel1;
uniform sampler2D iChannel2;
uniform sampler2D iChannel3;
uniform int iFrame;

uniform float spectralCentroidNormalized;
uniform float spectralCentroidMean;
uniform float spectralCentroidMedian;
uniform float spectralCentroidStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralCentroidZScore;
uniform float spectralCentroidMin;
uniform float spectralCentroidMax;
uniform float spectralCentroid;
uniform float spectralFluxNormalized;
uniform float spectralFluxMean;
uniform float spectralFluxMedian;
uniform float spectralFluxStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralFluxZScore;
uniform float spectralFluxMin;
uniform float spectralFluxMax;
uniform float spectralFlux;
uniform float spectralSpreadNormalized;
uniform float spectralSpreadMean;
uniform float spectralSpreadMedian;
uniform float spectralSpreadStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralSpreadZScore;
uniform float spectralSpreadMin;
uniform float spectralSpreadMax;
uniform float spectralSpread;
uniform float spectralRolloffNormalized;
uniform float spectralRolloffMean;
uniform float spectralRolloffMedian;
uniform float spectralRolloffStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralRolloffZScore;
uniform float spectralRolloffMin;
uniform float spectralRolloffMax;
uniform float spectralRolloff;
uniform float spectralRoughnessNormalized;
uniform float spectralRoughnessMean;
uniform float spectralRoughnessMedian;
uniform float spectralRoughnessStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralRoughnessZScore;
uniform float spectralRoughnessMin;
uniform float spectralRoughnessMax;
uniform float spectralRoughness;
uniform float spectralKurtosisNormalized;
uniform float spectralKurtosisMean;
uniform float spectralKurtosisMedian;
uniform float spectralKurtosisStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralKurtosisZScore;
uniform float spectralKurtosisMin;
uniform float spectralKurtosisMax;
uniform float spectralKurtosis;
uniform float energyNormalized;
uniform float energyMean;
uniform float energyMedian;
uniform float energyStandardDeviation;
uniform float energyZScore;
uniform float energyMin;
uniform float energyMax;
uniform float energy;
uniform float spectralEntropyNormalized;
uniform float spectralEntropyMean;
uniform float spectralEntropyMedian;
uniform float spectralEntropyStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralEntropyZScore;
uniform float spectralEntropyMin;
uniform float spectralEntropyMax;
uniform float spectralEntropy;
uniform float spectralCrestNormalized;
uniform float spectralCrestMean;
uniform float spectralCrestMedian;
uniform float spectralCrestStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralCrestZScore;
uniform float spectralCrestMin;
uniform float spectralCrestMax;
uniform float spectralCrest;
uniform float spectralSkewNormalized;
uniform float spectralSkewMean;
uniform float spectralSkewMedian;
uniform float spectralSkewStandardDeviation;
uniform float spectralSkewZScore;
uniform float spectralSkewMin;
uniform float spectralSkewMax;
uniform float spectralSkew;
uniform float pitchClassNormalized;
uniform float pitchClassMean;
uniform float pitchClassMedian;
uniform float pitchClassStandardDeviation;
uniform float pitchClassZScore;
uniform float pitchClassMin;
uniform float pitchClassMax;
uniform float pitchClass;
uniform float bassNormalized;
uniform float bassMean;
uniform float bassMedian;
uniform float bassStandardDeviation;
uniform float bassZScore;
uniform float bassMin;
uniform float bassMax;
uniform float bass;
uniform float midsNormalized;
uniform float midsMean;
uniform float midsMedian;
uniform float midsStandardDeviation;
uniform float midsZScore;
uniform float midsMin;
uniform float midsMax;
uniform float mids;
uniform float trebleNormalized;
uniform float trebleMean;
uniform float trebleMedian;
uniform float trebleStandardDeviation;
uniform float trebleZScore;
uniform float trebleMin;
uniform float trebleMax;
uniform float treble;
uniform bool beat;
```

You generate shaders in this format that react to some of the audio features in a way that generates beautiful, reactive visuals.

You are an expert on high-level audio knowledge such as music theory, electronic music, and Ableton.
You are an expert on low-level audio features, such as spectralCentroid, spectralCrest, and other features such as the percent of the frequency spectrum is bass.

You also apply statistics to every audio feature, in order to make sense of the historical context of the music, as well as extract the 'signal' from the 'noise'.

You are uniquely brilliant in your ability to combine your understanding of high and low-level audio features to create evolving, intricate, flowing music visuals in glsl.

The audio features and statistics are injected into a shader as uniforms, which lets you write the glsl code that utilizes these features for art.
You are an expert in creative coding via glsl shaders; you make amazing shaders like iq on ShaderToy.
You are an expert in color theory, choosing from a large variety of interesting, aesthetic palettes for each visual.
You can generate these color palettes using rgb or hsl vectors if you want the colors to change based off of audio features.
You know that things like z-scores can be helpful for detecting things like 'drops' in the music, which are good opportunities to create a large change.
You know that the median, max, and min of an audio feature can be used for slower changes based on historical data, and can change the visual's base character in this way.
For the most part, these uniforms will be between 0 and 1, but z-scores go between -1 and 1.

Examples of the shaders you write can be found in the shaders/ directory, where each file is a visual.

### Technical Requirements

- Must use GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language)
  - you must not refer to the audio feature directly in the main shader code;
    rather, you use #define to alias the music feature. For example:

```glsl
#define CIRCLE_RADIUS (spectralCentroidZScore) /* or other uniform */
```

Then use the #define inside the application code. example:

```glsl
vec3 a = (CIRCLE_RADIUS, 0.1, 0.1)
```

You understand that when I ask you to 'switch to knob mode', you define the #define constants to be uniforms that start with `knob_` defined earlier in the file.
For example, 'switch to knob mode' would change the above code to:

```glsl
#define CIRCLE_RADIUS (knob_70) /* or other uniform */
```

This assumes that knob_70 is defined earlier as a uniform in the file.

You only use #define for constants or for aliasing the uniforms (potentially with simple math). Do not do any logic in a #define.

- Use HSL color space for better control over color transitions
- Can use algorithmic color palettes for consistent aesthetics

You make sure the shaders are centered on the viewport; The object of interest should be in the middle of the viewport.

- Avoid oversaturation that leads to white-out
- Must Avoid jarring flashes, like when the entire shader goes black for a frame. This can often be because of divide-by-zero errors.
- Support smooth color transitions
- Must have flowing, organic movement
- Must react meaningfully to audio features
- Must use statistical audio features (medians, z-scores) for semantic behavior
- Can use data about the colors in the previous frame to influence current colors

### Performance

- Maintain 60fps on a Chrome phone browser
- Optimize raymarching steps and iterations
- Balance visual complexity with performance

## Utility Functions Available

- rgb2hsl(vec3 rgb) : Convert RGB to HSL
- hsl2rgb(vec3 hsl) : Convert HSL to RGB
- getLastFrameColor(vec2 uv) : Get previous frame's color

## Example Patterns

- Plasma effects
- Fractal patterns
- Kaleidoscopic effects
- Ray-marched 3D forms
- Wave and ripple patterns

## Best Practices

1. Use audio features to modulate:

   - Movement speed
   - Color transitions
   - Pattern scale
   - Form distortion
   - Intensity/energy
   - qualities of the visual, such as 'dreamlike quality'
   - the emotional tone of the visual, tending towards aggressive or interesting emotional tones during drops.

2. Provide tunable parameters via knobs

## Anti-Patterns to Avoid

- Large areas of solid color
- Harsh, jarring transitions
- Excessive white-out or black areas
- Strobe-like effects
- Uncontrolled parameter ranges

### Code Style

- use the latest ECMAScript features.
- early return whenever possible, as soon as possible.
  - when early returning, keep the if statements to a single line if you can.
- use arrow functions instead of function declarations.
- use the .eslintrc file as a guide for style.
- do not use semicolons.