Sound Fingerprint
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THIS is my first post for “Visualizing Data for the Five Senses” class this Fall.
Our first assignment was to think about sound and an appropriate way to visualize it on the computer using Processing.
My main beef with the way sound is typically visualized is the instantaneous-ness of it: graphic equalizers and the like are just bouncing lines on my screen… I know what they are supposed to represent, amplitudes of frequency bands, but they change so much that you cannot really get a sense of what is going on. What I thought would be interesting is a visualization that is an aggregate over the whole sound clip so that one could get an idea of the character or ‘fingerprint’ of the clip… Read more »