{"id":1156,"date":"2013-11-18T00:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaron-sherwood.com\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2013-11-18T00:52:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:52:15","slug":"shapes-as-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaron-sherwood.com\/blog\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Shapes as audio"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an attempt to translate the visual world into audio I wondered what if the shapes of objects could be contours of a sound wave. As an experiment I took the contour of an oak leaf and turned it into a wave form.<\/p>\n

I first found an outline of an oak leaf online then cut it in two:<\/p>\n

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Next, using computer vision (openCV in Cinder), I analyzed the image for feature points:<\/p>\n

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Using javascript I converted these points from a csv into a table that Max\/MSP could use as a waveform. Since some of the points are over\/under each other (and with a waveform you can’t have more then one value happening at any given point in time) the waveform in max has some interesting\u00a0striations:<\/p>\n

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With an\u00a0oscilloscope the wave coming from the synthesizer\u00a0looks like:<\/p>\n

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It sounds real buzzy:http:\/\/aaron-sherwood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/oakpulse.wav<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

But in layers and with some filtering it can have a nice effect:http:\/\/aaron-sherwood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/oakLayeredFiltered.wav<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n

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