Youscope (oscilloscope demo)

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tejeez | August 06, 2007

SONG: http://koodaa.mine.nu/tvt/y... a demo using an oscilloscope to display...

tejeez | August 06, 2007

SONG: http://koodaa.mine.nu/tvt/youscope-so...

a demo using an oscilloscope to display something.
- third in assembly 2007 shortfilm compo
- most original entry at assembly 2007
- scene.org awards nomination to most original concept, breakthrough performance and best animation.

Try it on your oscilloscope: http://kapsi.fi/~jpa/stuff/other/yous... (flac) / http://mirror.kapsi.fi/koodaa.mine.nu...
The oscilloscope is in X/Y-mode, with right channel connected to X and left to Y input. Z (brightness) input is not used.

Most soundcards (and other players) seem to have a lowpass filter at about half of the samplerate, making some effects here look quite strange. The soundcard used in this video just didn't have proper filters so it happens to be suitable for these effects.

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  • this is quite impressive. I've been hacking a CRT and running audio signals out of Max/MSP to achieve this effect, but haven't got anywhere near this kind of complexity.

    The "low-pass filter" you're referring to is actually what is called the Nyquist frequency, and is not an effect of your player but a fundamental characteristic of digital recording. Get yourself a DAC that can play back audio at 96khz and you'll have much better results.

  • It actually is...

    For example, a 10kHz sine wave looks like this without lpf: tinyurl . com / nhs52e . Great for drawing pixels on oscilloscope but contains lots of aliasing products (above the nyquist frequency) which should be removed with a low-pass filter. As they are outside the range of human hearing, some cheaper sound cards don't use any filters.

  • No way I'm doing that to my Tektronix :)

  • even easier: turn yourself upside down?

    At least it'll look better than with isolation transformers...

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  • the flashlight makes it look like you broke into a hospital in the middle of the night and jacked with someone's EKG machine lol

  • Cool... But it now seems obvious that my scope needs to be calibrated...

    Either way - I'm going to watch this till I fall asleep!

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  • @kittykat490 Try testing things. heres something cool. get an old headphone and strip a piece of the wires. onnect one lead of your oscilloscope to one each of the wires til you get some kind of signal. try setting the volt/div to .5 and the knob on right is time. you can "see" your music.

  • Is that really an ossiliscope doing that or is it just special effects?

  • I can't do this with my DSO. It's not fast enough (only updates ~5 times a second with XY mode and is limited to about 5 kHz). :( I'm thinking of getting an analog scope just to do cool stuff like this.

  • you need a vectorscope, right? I'm kinda a no0b

  • whoa this is so freaky and cool :psyduck:

  • Aaaah... I'm a 13-year-old girl that pretty much fails at everything cool but I have an oscilloscope... The most I can do is make little dots move across the screen by turning the knobs...

  • @tejeez this is confusing o.0

  • thank you for making this

  • @Sulleric Can you teach me how to do this, please?

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