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Ovilia/moonight
音频手绘可视化 - 今夜月色真美
A 2018 art project that turns microphone audio into hand-drawn-style SVG visualizations, rendered in the browser using Web Audio API. The name translates roughly to 'the moonlight is beautiful tonight' — a Japanese cultural reference. This is a personal creative experiment, not a library.
The SVG-based output is genuinely clever — using sketch-style paths rather than canvas means the visualization is exportable as a vector graphic. The separation between audio processing and painting logic is clean for a project this size. The QR code utility suggests it was built for mobile sharing, which shows real product thinking for something that's effectively a toy.
Abandoned since December 2022 with no updates in over three years, and the README is a single image. There's no documentation, no npm package, no API surface — you'd have to read the source to understand anything. The build tooling is Webpack 2-era and will require work to get running on modern Node. 341 stars almost certainly came from a social media post, not organic adoption.