Re: Do Re Mi

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I like that thing -- I've spent a surprising amount of time staring at it since Ezter posted it. The patterns in the dots are very satisfying.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 4:37 PM
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I agree. Pure mathematical patterns do produce sounds that sound almost like music (particularly in the "non-primer numbers" one). I like the crescendoes that appear when the dots all form one or two or three strings, too.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 4:39 PM
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since Ezter posted it.

Why not just say, "I had sex with your mom, ogged." Pwn'd by Ezter.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 4:40 PM
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I used it to show off my woofer, which is a really big and powerful woofer. Sometimes I just look at it, sometimes I touch it to feel its awesome power in action.

Actually, I have two woofers, but I don't want anybody to think I am weird, or get overexcited. The minor woofer is slimmer but a little longer. The software mixer allows me to coordinate my woofers in many interesting ways.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 5:07 PM
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Of course, the doodad's true purpose is to simulate attending a concert with Matt Weiner.


Posted by: standpipe b | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 5:12 PM
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I stand in admiration of 4, which also reminds me of this (transcript).


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 5:20 PM
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That is cool.


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 5:44 PM
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My daughter's comment: "Dad, could you send me that?" and after looking at the swirling dots for another couple of minutes, "Dad, how come you know all the cool links?" And it is a fine one.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 7:08 PM
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It could be one of those times, when maybe you saw that someone had linked to something, but you thought that that person was kind of boring and you don't really read the person's posts, so that's why you missed it.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 7:10 PM
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Wow -- I just watched it all the way through a full cycle -- the culmination is really dramatic.


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 7:55 PM
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Damn.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 8:24 PM
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Pick a dot and watch it as it goes around the circle. Watch the other dots lap it. See where it is on the circle when big chords form. Damn.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 8:34 PM
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Yeah. Also fun: mostly the radiating curves are concave counterclockwise, and that sounds a particular way; sometimes you get a radiating curve which is concave clockwise, and that sounds an interestingly different way. (This plays into how the culmination of the full cycle is really dramatic.)


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 8:39 PM
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(I mean, concave clockwise as it crosses the white line -- the curves are frequently concave clockwise as they approach the white line but flatten out to a big chord when they hit.)


Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 8:41 PM
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I watched every single one, all the way through a few times. This will eat my life.


Posted by: A White Bear | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 10:16 PM
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I was listening to this website at work today. Not watching it, just listening. While I worked.

Yes, I know I'm weird.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 10:21 PM
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16: I did that while I cleaned up our kitchen tonight. So at least you're not alone.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 10-30-06 10:32 PM
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4 was of course a joking reference to a previous thread, but i did watch the patterns by focusing on the largest furthest dots, slowest and tending toward the deepest bass.

I listen to a lot of complex music that way, by concentrating on the bass lines and trying to let the leads and melodies be absorbed intuitively.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 10-31-06 4:33 AM
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This was my website of the day in my week-old campaign to find a website every day that my 15 year old will agree with me is cool.

This one was a success. It kept him off of the chatroom for at least 15 minutes.

However he still has not switched his home page from Vampire Freaks to Unfogged.


Posted by: Anna in Portland (was Cairo) | Link to this comment | 10-31-06 12:02 PM
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Not as cool as this, but still very cool, is to plug, mike or import familiar sounds (your own voice, your favorite musical recordings, whatever) into an audio editing program, apply some of the effects and watch what happens to the visualization, particularly when you zoom in on particular passages. I recommend Audacity, free from SourceForge.net, but pretty much any audio editing program will do.

For those of you who've grown up with audio editing software, I know it's probably routine. But I last worked in radio at the dawn of the CD era, and I never used digital editing equipment before I got out of the business.


Posted by: Lex | Link to this comment | 10-31-06 1:49 PM
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