A coworker and I were recently talking about doing audio visualization with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). One of the more common visualization techniques for music applications is to slap in a simple banded spectrum analyzer. I thought such spectrum analyzers would be easy to find, as they’re included in many applications written in toward all sorts of platforms. A bit surprisingly, however, was that such visualizations in WPF aren’t as common as I would have expected. I thought I could use the rarity of such controls as an opportunity to play around with some fast rendering techniques in WPF. I was fairly pleased with the outcome, so I thought I would share the results.