Magic Music Visuals

hi. played around with the custom glsl video height.txt shader eric. it's pretty neat using the waveform and such. however i've found something odd (at least for me).

i used this input:
which turns out to look great with trails and the video height shader:
BUT it turns out the video height shader makes the input circle not round but actually oval. seen when rotating it using the x param of the shader:
is this just a limitation of the video height shader or am i using it wrong?

also which value(s) would i have to tweak within the shader to increase the amount of "slices" so that it seems less fuzzy? hope you know what i mean.

Aah. Is it due to the ingoing resolution not being square?

Good question. I didn't write that one myself -- I'm pretty sure this is the original: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Xss3zr#. If I remember correctly, I made an edit to remove the background gradient, but other than that I didn't make any changes.

I'll have a look and see if I can improve the issues you noticed. In particular, other programmers often ignore the aspect ratio of the window (perhaps because it makes things a bit more complicated), so the width distortion is a common problem.