How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound

Jellybean Fenderson · 2.4M views · 2014-03-26 · 3:07

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2017–2022

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Creative coding & generative art Electronics & circuit design Audio & video engineering

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pyinstallwoes · 2022-05 · Strong recommendation
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 [VIDEO]
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MayeulC · 2020-05 · Recommendation
I like this guy. I thought this was going to be a more introductory video: [VIDEO] (holy c *, he published a lot of these since 2014, they're pretty good :) ) This has been done with quake: [LINK]
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chrissoundz · 2017-10 · Recommendation
I find this video quite mesmerizing: [VIDEO] Essentially it draws an object on an oscilloscope by splitting the audio channel into x y coordinates.
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