visualizer

English

Etymology

From visualize +‎ -er.

Noun

visualizer (plural visualizers)

1. Someone who visualizes; especially someone whose mental imagery is visual.
2. That which provides a visualization.
   • 2010, Michael Halvorson, Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 Step by Step:

     […] an HTML visualizer that converts HTML code to a Web page […]

3. (music) A video accompanying a song, usually simpler than a typical music video, intended to be a visual representation of the song.
   • 2020 August 20, Chris Murphy, “Lil’ Baddie Jordyn Woods Stars in Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Video for ‘Mood Swings’”, in Vulture‎:

     Fittingly, “Mood Swings” ft. Lil Tijay has found a viral star to anchor its music video in actress, model, and former Kylie Jenner bff Jordyn Woods. In the visualizer, Jordyn Woods is the central baddie with a fatty, posing in pools and in sports cars with other baddies Dylan and Dakota Gonzalez.

   • 2025 October 16, Mitch Therieau, “Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.”, in The New York Times Magazine‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The same weekend the album was released, a movielike thing called “The Release Party of a Showgirl” played in cinemas around the world. This “film” would consist of a new music video, behind-the-scenes content and a string of visualizers.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

4. A person in the advertising industry who produces artwork for presentations.

Translations

a person whose mental imagery is visual

Polish: wzrokowiec m