See sound without drugs
Posted 15 years ago
To further my understanding of frequency analysis and the fast fourier transform, I have created an application that just turns on the microphone and continually plots the FFT magnitude of what it records. It allows control over the window size and sampling rate.
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Because the FFT of a real valued function is even, we only display the first half.
It's fun to whistle and see the result. I think it would be cool to make a game out of this. For example, you could make pong and control the paddle with sound. I plan to call it Whistle Hero.
For some more fun, run soundlab at the same time as WaveStudio, an older application I made that lets you draw a waveform and hear it. That way you can see a waveform that you create in the time domain in the frequency domain, and hear it all at the same time. Its actually quite challenging to try to make a perfect soundwave, and eliminate all of the harmonics.
Steve Hanov makes a living working on
Rhymebrain.com,
PriceMonkey.ca,
www.websequencediagrams.com,
and Zwibbler.com. He lives in
Waterloo, Canada.
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Christos H
15 years ago
I can see where you can go with this on a game. What kind of algorithm are you using to do the FFT? If it's fast enough, and you're feeling really creative, maybe you could couple a platform game that has randomly generated levels based on the spectral analysis of a song in your music library?
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