Yes, I'm pretty sure Google programmers are smart enough to render a sine wave should they so desire. It was obviously an artistic decision, be it a somewhat misguided one :P
-----Original Message----- From: music-dsp-boun...@music.columbia.edu [mailto:music-dsp-boun...@music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Nigel Redmon Sent: 24 February 2012 07:56 To: A discussion list for music-related DSP Subject: Re: [music-dsp] google's non-sine Eh, I still say they weren't going for a sine wave at all. Look at their other doodles. I'm sure that their designers would have felt that a sine wave would have missed the point for them. http://www.zazzle.com/robert_schumanns_200th_birthday_tshirt-235517387819488097 On Feb 23, 2012, at 3:27 PM, douglas repetto wrote: > > But it's Google!!! Surely they have the resources to generate a sinewave > animation that features an actual sinewave if they want to. > > I know it's a silly thing to rant about. But the Google front page has a lot > of reach (how many millions of hits a day?), and it gives me deep nerd pain > to think about something so fundamental and so beautiful -- yes, there's a > deep connection between a circle and a sinewave! -- being botched. > > I'll stop ranting now! > > douglas > > On 2/23/12 9:53 AM, Didier Dambrin wrote: >> There's also the fact that it's not easy to draw a sinewave in existing >> tools out there. >> Those who have drawn GUIs here and had to show waveforms know what I >> mean, I remember I've ended up with google-like non-sines as I was >> trying to draw a sine using 2 half ellipses. It may be what happened to >> the guy who drew that. >> Ask yourself how you'd do it.. the most accurate would be to use a real >> plot of a sine, but now good luck converting that to vectors in a proper >> image editing tool, for a nice antialiased display. >> > > > -- > ............................................... http://artbots.org > .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org > .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > ...........repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism > ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas > > -- -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp
