Neon is a

light synthesizer Music visualization or music visualisation, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated Computer-generated imagery, imagery based on a piece of music. The imagery is usually generated and rendere ...

developed by Jeff Minter ('Yak') and Ivan Zorzin ('Giles'). It was based on an enhanced version of the graphics engine originally to be included in ''Unity'', which became an independent project after Unity was cancelled in 2004. A version of Neon is used as the default visualiser for the

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. The authors have retained the rights to implement the software on other platforms and contexts (a Microsoft Windows version was due in 2006 but the release has been hampered by rights issues). The Xbox 360 version, implemented into the media player and activated whenever music is played, is actually the "First Wave" of Neon. Up to four people can control it with the same number of gamepads, or it can be run autonomously via the "v-crew" code. Jeff Minter's '' Space Giraffe'' uses the Neon engine, as does Llamasoft's subsequent games Gridrunner Revolution and Minotaur Rescue.

External links

Official site for Neon

The Neon X360 Manual, describing control modes
Music visualization software Llamasoft software {{videogame-software-stub

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