We have all seen sound waves visualized on oscilloscope or even spectrum analyzer screens, but how often have we seen actual photographs, or even better video, of the three dimensional compression and rarefaction that is sound propagating in the real world? NPR’s skunk bear has a great video both demonstrating and explaining Schlieman flow visualization […]
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Schlieman Flow Visualization of actual sound waves
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Entrainment (for the New Year)
I just saw Ikeguchi Lab’s awesome demonstration of 100 metronomes becoming synchronized via mutual entrainment (the metronomes are arrayed on a hanging platform to facilitate) and thought this was just the thing to share as we say farewell to 2016 and look forward to 2017. Let’s collectively make 2017 a healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous […]
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A conversation about lockless protocols
I had a conversation with old friend, occasional colleague, future Audio Anecdotes contributor(?), Craig Hansen-Sturm recently about the application of lockless data structures to implement robust, low-latency audio systems. I can imagine why Craig, freshly hired by venerable sequencer maker Cakewalk, is interested in low-latency audio, but I was surprised to refer him to a list […]
