Andrew "Drew" O'Meara is a creator of artistic music visualization software, and founded WhiteCap Technologies, Inc in 2000, subsequently renamed to SoundSpectrum in 2004. O'Meara attended Cornell University, graduating in computer science in 1999 on a Navy Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship. He completed a five-year commitment as a naval submarine officer in 2004. His first popular music visualization software was WhiteCap, released in 1999. [1] O'Meara is most noted for his second music visualizer, G-Force, released in January 2000. [2] [3] A fork of G-Force was licensed by Apple and appeared in iTunes 1.0. This fork persists (as of 2017) and is found listed as "iTunes Classic Visualizer" in the View > Visualizer menu of iTunes. [4] O'Meara currently leads development of Tunr, and all-in-one visual music player containing SoundSpectrum's visuals as well as leading development into 3D blockchain visualization and UI design. [5]
Music visualization or music visualisation, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated imagery based on a piece of music. The imagery is usually generated and rendered in real time and in a way synchronized with the music as it is played.
Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's founding principle, a popular 1868 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."