When the lovely people at MIT added some extra cool graphics to my book cover I was initially dismayed to see the usual "funky oscilloscope trace" with a blue tint, looking like an electric spark. But everyone I showed it to, my friends and family all thought it was amazing and futuristic! So I quickly got over my pedantry and embraced a new found ability to create signals that go backwards in time as well as forwards. Graphic designers create their worlds, we create ours.
On the subject of creating worlds, I've missed this conversation entirely because of a courageous attempt to degooglify my life and get out of the scrutinised bubble. Since switching to the Duck search engine I discovered a whole internet out there. Maybe takes longer to find exact thing, but if you're that desperate to save half a second here and there your life is in trouble anyway, and the plus side is rediscovering the colourful, trashy landscape not interpreted through an individual bourgeois materialist lens. Turns out DSP stands for many different things, so by making more focussed searches and pausing for a moment to think instead of lean on the mental crutch, things actually work out better. On the weird side, LaTeX is more than a document processor. There's even a perfume called Philosophy. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:06:59PM +0000, Tom Wiltshire wrote: > I agree as well. Why should it have to be a sine wave? Hertz didn't invent > the sine wave! A square wave has 'frequency' just as much as a sine does, > and presumably 'frequency' was the point of the googledoodle. Put the odd > harmonics in and get a circular waveform, it's fine by me. > > The amplitude and frequency modulation is a bit weird though! > > T. -- 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
