Horizontal Ellipses

This listens to your computer's microphone and draws the contents of the audio buffer as a series of (mostly) horizontal ellipses.

This was made as part of a series exploring the visualization of audio that was presented at a d3.oakland. A big list of the demos from this series can be found here.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Horizontal Ellipses</title>
<body style="margin: 0px">
  <canvas></canvas>
</body>
<script>  
const audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)();
const analyser = audioCtx.createAnalyser();

const canvas = document.querySelector('canvas');
canvas.setAttribute('width',innerWidth);
canvas.setAttribute('height',innerHeight);

const canvasCtx = canvas.getContext("2d");
canvasCtx.fillStyle = 'rgb(0, 0, 0)';
canvasCtx.strokeStyle = 'rgb(255, 0, 0)';
canvasCtx.lineWidth = .1;

const dataArray = new Uint8Array(analyser.frequencyBinCount);

navigator.getUserMedia (
  {audio: true},
  function(stream) {
    audioCtx.createMediaStreamSource(stream).connect(analyser);
    draw();
  },
  function(err) {
    console.log('The following gUM error occured: ' + err);
  }
);