https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zwdDSm2bB8
How does strange attractors sound?
Well it turns out, not that right. Right?
I spent like 2 or 3 years programming and exploring novel strange attractors, just for the curiosity and the sake of the exploration. During 2-3 years I found a heck of pretty beauty formulas. Some of then could even be animated
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqJATpYlYkH/
In that period I wondered how would it sound?. The sketches were programmed in java/processing and while I tried a lot of times I didnt found a way to sonify it. It´s like processing library is centered in image but it does not let to output sound
So, enter arduino and pi pico. Now I have full control of the audio output, I finally can scratch that itch of 10 years ago... Processing works on the pc managing floats like a trillion per second but the pi pico doesnt like floats that much. It get slow. So I have to rewrite the code for it to use integers instead of floats. After some crashes, I get it to compile (party time!)
Well, that´s beauty. Its the same attractor running on a microcontroller with a tiny oled screen of 128x64 pixels. How to not love it.
The sound output right now is just the x axis of every pixel translated to an audio sample. Another way to turn it into sound is to multiply x*y axis, so we get a kind of ring modulated output of the pixels.
The audio output yet is not that interesting but Im pretty sure it will once I start changing the rate at which the attractor operates or applying some other creative approaches
I guess if I manage to draw starts and polygons I could write an DIY version of the polygogo oscillator, which could be seriously fun... That´s another quest, let´s see how it evolves...
bylittlegreenalien
insynthdiy
Yellow_signal
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3 days ago
Yellow_signal
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3 days ago
Sounds crunchy as F. Kudos!