Re: Virtual Sandtable

Jerry W. Decker ( (no email) )
Tue, 19 May 1998 21:35:39 -0500

Hi Matthew!

Interesting question about a program that would simulate
harmonic/enharmonic interactions for nodal and modal analysis.

Some friends and I were discussing this a year or so ago and wanted to
build a Keely type oscilloscope based on Chladni waveplates...

The trick is instead of having a wave stretched over time as on a normal
linear path oscilloscope, you must have a reference where the waves move
radially from a common center point, analogous to the emitter....this
way you could see how the waves truly interact...there is a blockbuster
that I've been trying to get online (with permission) from the
representative of the Russian experimenter that directly applies to
this...but its not ready yet...

Meantime, I think such a program would bring some entirely new
perspectives on how harmonies and enharmonies interact...have to ask
some programming friends what it would take...I think that would need a
Cartesian reference...hmmm, I'm sure I posted something about this early
on or in some emails...

Anyway, it shouldn't be that hard to do it, just a matter of DOING IT...

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