I read:
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~penrose/PVNation. There is a jMax port of FFTease at http://mamalala.de/files/FFTease/index.html.
I have approx. half of the objects working (but still spitting out a lot of debug post()s) working in pd over here, I'll try to clean the stuff up over the week and will post it as my little chrismess gift ASAP.
regards,
x