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visualizing a sonification…
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And I can almost hear the sounds just looking at it. It really does look like several waveforms. Cool.
Were you hanging off the back of the train to take that shot?
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Thanks y’all.
taro: yes, the Coast Starlight Amtrak Train #14 at full speed.
Complexify: yes. I was hanging off the back of the caboose, holding my arms out at full extension. They look like waveforms in a Mac sound editor… or earthquake recorder jiggles. They reminded me of some cool sonifications that Thomas Dolby did earlier this year… (using natural data sets as MIDI triggers…. Here, we take it back to the visual medium… =)
Premasagar: I played around with the exposure settings. I bumped it to +2EV to extend the exposure time and maximize the blur of the horizontal ties. The rails are aligned with the movement of the train, and so they don’t look as distorted.
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Very cool. Glad you didn’t drop the camera. 🙂 I wish there were some easy way to paste these waveforms into a sound editor and "audiolize" them. Or some sort of reverse seismograph… 🙂
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Alieness: good call. At least I’m not tasting the shapes of the waveforms. Might taste like wood, seeing as how they’re actually railroad ties. 🙂
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Jurvetson: I should’ve posted the link. The "oblique" or "/" pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/oblique/Do you have a good link to those Thomas Dolby sonifications you mentioned? Sounds interesting.
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This is a wonderful wonderful photo.
Brilliant.It is now serving as my wallpaper (if that is ok) -
Fantastic train photo. Train must have been travelling very fast and you must have a good camera.
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Thomas Dolby’s sonifications from TED are now available. Listen to the seasonal rainfall in California, sunspot activity from the SOHO satellite, and the ocean buoy data feeds during the Asian tsunami. (Cue The Flat Earth)
If someone wants a high res version, we can get an FTP site set up.
UPDATE: A link died. Here are some current ones:
TED 2006: ocean buoys
TED 2006: solar flares
Keppler Talk by ThomasAnd we did an audience participation sonification at our Schmoozefest with D’cuckoo and a giant helium filled MIDI-trigger ball.
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very cool shot. There’s such an incredible sense of energy and movement – very alive.
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Hi! I’m admin of a new group called Great Stock Shots
We find your photo greatly suitable to our subject and would love to have it added to the group.
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Hey Steve,
Thanks for sharing this image via Creative Commons licensing. We like it so much that we’ve made it the photo for a series of articles we published recently about high speed transit in BC. You can see your photograph here.
Thanks again! And feel free to upload more great pics to our Tyee Flickr Pool. We choose one each day to feature on the site. More info here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/thetyee/
The Tyee
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