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Sounds of the Mandelbrot set

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  1. acdw
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    This is amazing, I love it! It makes me think of the bit in Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I think the fourth one, where they meet that guy who's been trying to make music (maybe it's Dirk...

    This is amazing, I love it! It makes me think of the bit in Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I think the fourth one, where they meet that guy who's been trying to make music (maybe it's Dirk Gently?) using like, the flap of birds' wings and stuff, and then they go to an alien spaceship that's just piping that music out of the speakers, and then other stuff happens, but like... at the end of the book (spoilers) the guy hears that music again and it turns out the time travel person had gone back and recorded it, then like, released it in the Baroque period as Bach's music.

    So I really like the idea of generated music, especially from chaotic/naturalistic sets.

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  2. teaearlgraycold
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    Now someone should do a mandelbulb renderer where you fly around the 3d fractal, producing sounds as you go. Regarding the interpolation to 44.1 kHz performed: Shouldn't Nyquist–Shannon make that...

    Now someone should do a mandelbulb renderer where you fly around the 3d fractal, producing sounds as you go.

    Regarding the interpolation to 44.1 kHz performed: Shouldn't Nyquist–Shannon make that unnecessary? Your audio device will automatically convert the reduced bandwidth signal into a sum of sin waves.

    3 votes