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Physically, they're pretty analogous. But perceptually, sound and sight are very different. We're much less interested in abstract visual arrangements and there
by acjohnson55 2y ago
Physically, they're pretty analogous. But perceptually, sound and sight are very different. We're much less interested in abstract visual arrangements and there's no visual analog of harmony.
- acjohnson55 2y agoMaybe I'll add that our "detectors" for sight and sound operate on different principles. Our sight system is a camera, capturing a 2-D image of the world. Color is picked up by 3ish sensors that have broadband frequency responses, meaning that a huge amount of information on the actual spectral content of the light is discarded. Countless spectral combinations get flattened into individual color values. Our sound system approximates a Fourier-like decomposition of sound into frequency bins at points in time. It preserves much more spectral fidelity, but very little spatial fidelity.