[sdiy] re : Oh god, not the Circular Waveform Again! ( was something else )

[Tom Arnold]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:09:45PM -0700, Ian Fritz wrote:
> >If so, arnt they just a different way of
> >viewing standard waveforms and not some weird "circular/spiral" waveform?
> 
> You are looking at it backwards.  The standard waveforms are the 
> 1-dimensional projections (vs time) of the circular/spiral/chaotic/etc 
> phase space orbits.

Hrm.  I guess my point is that whatever you visualize a waveform as being,
it still winds up being a single dimension movement over time when it hits
your eardrum...

> No, a circular orbit corresponds to sine and cosine signals.  A Sheppard 
> generator is more like a helical orbit on a torus.

Yeah, but it *sounds* circular. :-)

I didnt realise you had sound clips at the bottom.  Listened to them.  They
sound chaotic ( and I mean that in the descriptive way not subjective ).
To me they dont *sound* circular.

Neat stuff in any case.  I'm actually intrigued by the idea of taking your
VC chaos generator, slowing it way down and quantizing it for use as a
sequencer.  Yes, I'm one of those folks who randomly plays with the
sequencer knobs then turns it on to see what just got created... :-)

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