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Ask HN: How to Visualize Rain?
I'm an aspiring artist who has fond memories of rain and the monsoon season.
As an artist I always wanted to document or represent the feeling of monsoons through a visual medium.
Any great ideas or thoughts to do this?
Last year I tried recording rain sounds through a microphone and played it on a speaker with paint on it. But the frequency was not strong enough to produce any interesting patters.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated!
- leonry 5y agoTake a look at Chladni figures, e.g. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-1787 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-17...
- rishikeshs 5y agoI tried it, but couldn't achieve anything phenomenal with rain sound!
- gus_massa 5y agoHave you tried an spectrogram? For example this accept input from the microphone https://auditoryneuroscience.com/acoustics/spectrogram https://auditoryneuroscience.com/acoustics/spectrogram there are many https://www.google.com/search?q=spectrogram+online https://www.google.com/search?q=spectrogram+online
- rishikeshs 5y agoI had thought about this, but couldn't come up with anything that would make it visually appealing and represent the randomness of rainy seasons. The graph more or less look the same !
- smoe 5y agoThis blog post has some interesting works, visualizing sound in very different ways. https://en.99designs.com.co/blog/design-other/sound-visualization-design-inspiration/ https://en.99designs.com.co/blog/design-other/sound-visualiz... Especially this one contains a lot o things of what you seem to by trying to do. https://vimeo.com/111593305 https://vimeo.com/111593305 That said, I don't think you will get very interesting patterns from rain without quite some pre-processing, because rain sound is fairly close to just brown noise. E.g. what I would try top of mind is to filter out only few of very load drops and start working only with them for the visuals, mixing the rest back in audio only as calming background. It's still going to be random, but should be able to make it to look much more interesting. Also stereo recording will make a big difference for the audiovisual experience.