[sdiy] Re: Spiral Waveforms

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Ian Fritz <ijfritz at earthlink.net> wrote:
>Hi Scott --
>
>At 09:20 AM 4/12/2004, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>> >
>> >Thinking in terms of directly generating spiral waveforms I agree with
>> >you.  It would be tricky.  But using the waveshaper approach -- starting
>> >with a sine and distorting it with various algebraic manipulations -- isn't
>> >difficult in principle.  I would say that the important question is whether
>> >a simple circuit could give a useful range of dynamic waveforms.  It seems
>> >worth thinking about a bit.
>>
>>I don't see this as conceptually different from what people already do with
>>modulars, i.e., sine wave to waveshaper, or any-wave to waveshaper for that
>>matter.  If the output is to be a single waveform, generated from a single
>>waveform, how does the spiral come into play?
>
>Right.
>
>A specific kind of waveform was proposed and I showed what was meant by the 
>spiral representation of it and how to implement it.  I don't know what 
>else to tell you.  If you don't find it useful or if you want to implement 
>it in some other way, then fine.
>
>Shrug.

Me shrug too, at this point, I don't find the idea of a spiral representation
as useful.  I was hoping that the discussion might ferret out what I may have
missed in turning this visualization into an electronic implementation.  

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