Pencil Music

[Digital-Terror]

I think this can be done.

After sharpening a pencil, I noticed that the ridge of the yellow part overlapped the wooden part with what could possibly be played as audio. All you would have to do is scan the 6 sides of the pencil and line up the bitmaps, then somehow convert it into an audio file. See the picture below for more details, but could this potentially work?

[unowned]

load it in here http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/Coagula.h tm
see what happens

[Mich]

At 9/23/09 05:45 PM, unowned wrote: load it in here http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/Coagula.h tm
see what happens

After skimming through that page, I noticed that it doesn't quite do what the OP suggested.
He means actually converting the image to a sound wave as in, the sound wave looks like the image.

[unowned]

well thats what it does

[Mich]

At 9/23/09 06:04 PM, unowned wrote: well thats what it does

http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/Coagula/P rinciple.gif

^that image suggest it converts colours to frequencies, not plays waves you've drawn as they would look on a wave monitor.

[unowned]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram

try spending a minute on operating the program, mr belgium whos english has been perfected so you fully understand what you're reading

[Mich]

At 9/23/09 06:14 PM, unowned wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram

try spending a minute on operating the program, mr belgium whos english has been perfected so you fully understand what you're reading

Oh right, I forgot that I wasn't talking to trolls anymore. Good luck having people take you seriously.

[unowned]

except im not a troll you dumb prick, it does as it you and the op say
"He means actually converting the image to a sound wave as in, the sound wave looks like the image."

how am i troll, because i make arguments that go against your cultural values?

[Mich]

At 9/23/09 05:26 PM, Digital-Terror wrote: I think this can be done.

After sharpening a pencil, I noticed that the ridge of the yellow part overlapped the wooden part with what could possibly be played as audio. All you would have to do is scan the 6 sides of the pencil and line up the bitmaps, then somehow convert it into an audio file. See the picture below for more details, but could this potentially work?

Anyway, sorry for that.

Digitak-Terror, I assume, you want to convert the image you make to sound waves sort of like this form?
Then we'll have to find a program hat does thàt. I'm not too sure if it's possible to get any high-quality sound out of that though, as the wave showed here looks similar to the kind of images you'd create out of your method. The thing is, the waves shown below have far more detail in them when you zoom in, while you cannot zoom in on the images you'd like to make.

It'd be an interesting experiment though.

[unowned]

try and find once instance of trolling
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/search/aut hor/unowned

sure theres the occasional playful post where i harass a person, but you're all guilty of such a thing

[Rucklo]

wtf... don't snipe at eachother just because you both seem to be unable to come along. i ought to ban both of you for derailing this thread - unowned for throwing the first pebble, and MICH for taking the bait.

i'm gonna watch, i mean BABYSIT both of you and as soon as one of you tosses sand in the other guys vagina, it's gonna result in a corner-timeout.

THERE IS TO BE NO FUCKING SANDING-THE-VAGINA IN OUR FUCKING SANDBOX. There is nothing else that needs to be discussed in this matter, at least not in this thread. If any of you have a problem, or anyone else for that matter, bring it up with me and I'll call you all crying vaginas, slap you around a little and then all will be good again. ^___________________^

OP, i apologize for the above bullshitting and for me having to step in and make this post. it sounds like a really cool idea, definitley if the waveform is to be used in an/as an oscillator!

[Mich]

Okay, after a lot of googling, it seems that the only options will be this..

Drawing your sound wave rather than using the image of the sound wave. Maybe you can replicate it somehow, but I'm not sure how that would work out.

I found some page that said Soundforge allows you to draw your own waves with the pen tool. Never used it myself though.

There were other programs that allowed you to do this same thing too, but I seem to have lost the page that listed them (Failed at using history too).

Anyway, something else that's interesting (but not completely releveant, but still kind of...).
While googling drawing and sound and I ran into Drawdio. This is a small electronics project you can do that involves a pencil and some small circuit. I just thought it'd be nice to link that here as it also involves a pencil and sound ;)

[Rucklo]

At 9/23/09 08:32 PM, MICHhimself wrote: I found some page that said Soundforge allows you to draw your own waves with the pen tool. Never used it myself though.

you can actually draw, or rather adjust/correct, a soundwave in Cubase, though i never really tried it out other than to get rid of unwanted clicks from when the soundcard haven't been paying attention during recording, and have created a short click in the soundwave.

[Mich]

Tried coagula.

Here's the piece of sound I took the wave from - link

Here's the image of the exact pieco of audio, a screenshot from Audacity. - link

Here's the sound output coagula gave me with the above image loaded. - link

[Chronamut]

you can draw waveforms in trackers.

[nubbinownz]

At 9/23/09 10:39 PM, Chronamut wrote: you can draw waveforms in trackers.

In b4 trackers VS. Sequencers.