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How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound

How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2017–2022.

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Jerobeam Fenderson shows how to draw a mushroom on an oscilloscope in XY mode using stereo audio, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave. Pd and Max4Live patches are provided.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN finds it mesmerizing and uses it to build intuition for waveforms and oscilloscope XY drawing.

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“This was amazing to me: How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound”
— pyinstallwoes, May 2022, in “Korg NTS-2 DIY oscilloscope and wave generator kit”

What HN commenters said

5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

pyinstallwoesMay 2022Strongly recommends

Anyone have a some tips on wanting to build intuition on wave-forms, electronics, and having fun with an oscilloscope? This was amazing to me: How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound ▶ this video

in “Korg NTS-2 DIY oscilloscope and wave generator kit” · View on HN

MayeulCMay 2020Recommends

I like this guy. I thought this was going to be a more introductory video: ▶ this video (holy c *, he published a lot of these since 2014, they're pretty good :) ) This has been done with quake: [link]

in “The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter” · View on HN

chrissoundzOct 2017Recommends

I find this video quite mesmerizing: ▶ this video Essentially it draws an object on an oscilloscope by splitting the audio channel into x y coordinates.

in “My Sudden Synaesthesia” · View on HN

basqJun 2019Cites it

What you've written is extremely interesting. Not sure how much of it I truly understand, but I wanted to add that your explanation for everything as a wave function reminded me of oscilloscope music, ie. depicting images with waveforms. A tutorial I watched demonstrates the drawing of a mushroom, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave. In my laymen's head model, Spacetime is like a very large wave that everything else is being modulated by. Here's the relevant video: ▶ this video

in “How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It” · View on HN

tomatopotatoSep 2017Cites it

Very cool! Reminds me of Jerobeam Fenderson using the XY mode in ossiloscopes to draw images with stereo sounds: ▶ this video

in “Visualising sound: Laser and mirror and sound” · View on HN

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Creative coding & generative artElectronics & circuit designAudio & video engineeringoscilloscopexy modelissajousaudio visualizationstereo sound