Intro to Comp Media

Handala, or Handelbrot

Link: This project began as an attempt to visualize musical dissonance using moiré patterns. The early goal was to map consonant vs. dissonant tone pairs onto spatial interference patterns by treating sine waves as spatial frequencies. The initial prototype…

Ear Training Sketch

The ear training sketch made me feel bad: So I decided to blame it on the use of just intonation instead of equal temperament, which I fixed: I tried again with equal temperament, and was vindicated: Or I just got…

Pixels: Compression Bands

By William Yao (wy538@nyu.edu) and Noah Black (nsb8333@nyu.edu) For the Pixels assignment, Will and I came up with Compression Bands. Vertical bands from the webcam feed are alternately stretched and compressed. The bands gradually switch places, i.e. they transition smoothly…