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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Musical output from numerical simulations
Keywords: musical output, numerical simulations, LSC
Message-ID: <3f4c6607.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 88 02:25:00 GMT
References: <12689@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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In article <12689@duke.cs.duke.edu>, hsg@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) writes:
> For a demo as part of a nonlinear dynamics course, I
> would like to write a LSC application that would
> integrate ordinary differential equations that have
> chaotic behavior (e.g., the 3-variable Lorenz
> equations) and present the output (value of x(t), y(t),
> z(t)) as musical tones. The integration of o.d.e.s is
> easy, the translation into sound is not.
> 
> Alternatively, you can imagine having time series
> consisting of floating point numbers at equal intervals
> of time. One would like to map the range of the time
> series into the range of audible frequencies and
> "listen" to the output, with possibly multiple voices
> (several time series played at once).
> 
> As a complete beginner with little understanding of the
> Macintosh interface, I was wondering if anyone out
> there in netland has done something like this and could
> send me some source code to imitate? Any pointers or
> tricks to watch out for?
> 
  Gee, this sounds like Anthem Richard MacDuff of Wayforward Technologies... ;)