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+== Simple Oscilloscope ==
+
+This plugin displays the waveform of an incoming audio signal using a simple
+GTK+Cairo GUI.
+
+This plugin illustrates:
+
+- UI <==> Plugin communication via http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/atom/[LV2 Atom] events
+- Atom vector usage and resize-port extension
+- Save/Restore UI state by communicating state to backend
+- Saving simple key/value state via the http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/state/[LV2 State] extension
+- Cairo drawing and partial exposure
+
+This plugin intends to outline the basics for building visualization plugins
+that rely on atom communication. The UI looks like an oscilloscope, but is not
+a real oscilloscope implementation:
+
+- There is no display synchronisation, results will depend on LV2 host.
+- It displays raw audio samples, which a proper scope must not do.
+- The display itself just connects min/max line segments.
+- No triggering or synchronization.
+- No labels, no scale, no calibration, no markers, no numeric readout, etc.
+
+Addressing these issues is beyond the scope of this example.
+
+Please see http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2013/papers/36.pdf for scope design,
+https://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/Digital_Show_and_Tell for background information,
+and http://lists.lv2plug.in/pipermail/devel-lv2plug.in/2013-November/000545.html
+for general LV2 related conceptual criticism regarding real-time visualizations.
+
+A proper oscilloscope based on this example can be found at
+https://github.com/x42/sisco.lv2