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The Sound of Fractals & Photographs

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Uploaded by on Aug 30, 2009

http://photosounder.com

Various fractals and photographs found around the web turned into sounds using Photosounder. Links to the original image (when it still exists) in the annotations.

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  • nice idea :) are you applying an edge-detect filter to the image and then interpreting the colours of a pixelcolumn as amount of frequency, where the pixel-y-coordinate represents the frequency itself?

  • @d0lphchrist Yes, except no edge detection at all, and it's all levels of grey.

  • I'd like to see this done with some of Alex Grey's paintings. That would be a mindfuck.

  • @mrespman yep, some of them would be quite good for that. The key would be merely to turn down their gamma, and try different rotations. You can try that yourself, with Photosounder's demo.

  • Is there a way to do it backwards from sound to image?

  • @Shinbahamut23 yes, by opening a sound with Photosounder it is turned into an image, which is turned into a sound again. It allows you to do many many things at the image level that affect the sound that you couldn't do in any other way.

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  • Works best on fishnets

  • Try it with sheet music lol

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  • I have a question: With this program you can turn image to sound, and sound to image. However, when you have one or the other, can you put it back how it was? Meaning, if I took a screen shot, ran it through this program and made it an audio file, could I put the audio I got into the program and make it the picture I had before?

  • MINDFUCK

  • lol first time I try this application and it crashes after closing the window

  • This is geometry converted to sound, exactly how matter  also responds to vibration. Eye opener once more. Great job.

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