> Hi Folks!
>
> Brings up an interesting point....Keely used Chaldni type waveplates as
> DIAGNOSTIC tools, allowing him to see how frequencies could produce
> complex geometries when they interacted....I have long wondered how to
> make an oscilloscope that would use polar coordinates instead of the
> linear time stretching off the shelf scopes use....
Err... dunno how you'd go about building the hardware behind this, but
assume for a moment we drag a PC into this (that puts this in my domain):
you could get a cheap multi-ADC card to accept the input from multiple
oscilloscopes positioned at various points around the target object.
It wouldn't be too difficult - about the only difficult part would be
finding/building oscilloscopes that can be hooked up to the ADC.
That's it. Problem solved. Now all that needs to be done is write the
software that analyzes it.
> It would be way cool to have multiple traces plotted instantly on a
> screen so you could see the interactions...I think it would open up all
> kinds of new insights into the reality of the universe...since these wave
> interactions are much closer to the reality than a normal scope trace...
True enough, but how would you plot the various inputs received from each
oscilloscope? Overlay them as a single waveform like a conventional
oscilloscope? Perhaps some sort of 3D geometric arrangement? The
arrangement would all depend upon how many inputs were used.
This all reminds me of the research done in periphonics ("sphere-sound" --
surround sound is two-dimensional, while periphonics is 3D - enveloping
you on all three vectors). Periphonics uses either three or four
speakers... I can't remember which... but the arrangement of these
speakers might prove a useful clue as to how to arrange a series of
oscilloscopes around a target object.
Food for thought.