Welcome

What is Le Biniou ?

Le Biniou is a tool to create images from sound. It has a long history, has been inspired by many OpenSource projects, and comes

   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Architecture

Le Biniou is made of more than 80 plugins, that react to an input source (usually, a soundcard). After more than ten years of existence, and countless hours of run, it creates new, never seen before, mind-blowing effects.

You might want to give a look at the screenshots or videos to get an idea.

Random notes

About the code: It was a deliberate choice to keep things as simple as possible. Thus, Le Biniou works on 8bits-indexed buffers, which allows to easily develop cellular-automatons, or similar algorithms. No OpenGL. No MMX/SSE2/assembly optimizations. No GPU programming. Only simple plugins. The magic of mixing plugins in a chaotic way, based on a sound input, does the rest.

Features

• Fractint colormaps
• PNG/PPM/PGM image loading
• FFT computations
• Colormaps and pictures faders
• An API to create oscilloscope-like effects
• A basic particle system
• On-screen display
• An embedded feed-forward back-propagation neural network
• and more...

WARNING: We are not responsible for the side-effects of using Le Biniou. But we hope you will have some fun playing with it :)

Curious ? Well, give it a try on the "Download" page :)