How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound
What it is
Jerobeam Fenderson shows how to draw a mushroom on an oscilloscope in XY mode using stereo audio, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave. Pd and Max4Live patches are provided.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN finds it mesmerizing and uses it to build intuition for waveforms and oscilloscope XY drawing.
- 3 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2017, last 2022
What HN commenters said
“This was amazing to me: How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound”
Builds intuition on waveforms and oscilloscopes
pyinstallwoes, 2022-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Korg NTS-2 DIY oscilloscope and wave generator kit”
“I find this video quite mesmerizing”
Drawing objects on an oscilloscope via stereo channels
chrissoundz, 2017-10 · Recommendation · in “My Sudden Synaesthesia”
“I like this guy.”
Fenderson has published many good oscilloscope videos since 2014
MayeulC, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter”
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Topics: oscilloscope, xy mode, lissajous, audio visualization, stereo sound
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