How do "Flow Maps" work in visualizing music?

How do these cards work? They seem very fast for what they are. I assume that they work by setting the texture of the 3d mesh to the buffer of the last frame, which is then drawn on the screen.

The screenshot below is presented by the "Project M" visualizer in the Play Store running on Google Nexus 4.

Music Visualization 'Flow Map'

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