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by pierrec 6y ago
Quoting the second (Babylonian) tablet in the article: " he suffers paralysis up his form... day and night he does not sleep, he continually sees frightening dreams, he continually suffers paralysis... he forgets the words that he spea
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by pierrec 6y ago
I don't understand why the Siberian Times makes it so frequently to the front page of HN, but either way, I like it.
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by pierrec 6y ago
I'm not affiliated with either but I've used Faust a lot. I believe SOUL intends to be directly supported by various platforms, whereas Faust compiles to whatever kind of code runs on different platforms. So if you like Faust, you
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by pierrec 6y ago
The "Aphex face" manifests as an clearly audible weird abstract sound at the end of the track. It sits nicely in the mix, but it's also distinct from the actual music - I would say it comes across like a signature rather than
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by pierrec 6y ago
The article does not present whaling as an art. It goes to great lengths to emphasize the cruelty of whaling. The title refers to the variety of art associated more or less directly with whaling.
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by pierrec 6y ago
>It won't Well, looks like it did.
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by pierrec 6y ago
Motion aftereffect! The most extreme version of this effect I've ever seen is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSRVgF501M
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by pierrec 6y ago
I wonder if Robert Jordan was inspired by this when he wrote The Great Hunt (spoiler follows, I guess!) The protagonist experiences a hallucinatory battle with his arch nemesis, then learns that it was somehow projected in the sky: "I
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by pierrec 6y ago
I think you're over-interpreting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_logic
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by pierrec 6y ago
This does not perform normalization. The Github repo does have the tag "audio-normalization" but the tags seem a bit all over the place.
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by pierrec 6y ago
It contains a dynamic range compressor, but it also chains more effects including a multiband compressor, so overall it falls outside the definition of a dynamic range compressor. Naming chains of effects is always an interesting exercise
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by pierrec 6y ago
It's a classic for sure, but it's still cool seeing a new take on it.
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by pierrec 6y ago
Compute shaders in WebGL would be great. But why would they improve the performance in this case? Right now it's implemented as a fragment shader, which to me seems appropriate here.
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by pierrec 6y ago
It's a valid theory, but the page you linked says 2.3k commits over that period. More than enough to annihilate backwards compatibility unless you're very deliberate about it.
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by pierrec 6y ago
Indeed, "List of fatal dog attacks in the United States (2010s)" is currently the 15th longest article on Wikipedia. "Taikyoku shogi" is far behind but still respectable at #80. But of course neither can touch the absolu
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by pierrec 6y ago
The delay (or more accurately smoothing) of the mouse position is a hack to make the mouse trail look more like a streak rather than repetitive little blobs. I call it a hack because the proper solution would be to have a line-shaped source
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by pierrec 6y ago
It's well done, though anyone who regularly browses Shadertoy or similar websites has probably been desensitized to old-school (yes, old school!) liquid demos compared to what the cool kids do these days... but well done nonetheless!
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by pierrec 6y ago
Having converted a few things to wasm, I think porting SuperCollider would be considerably more difficult than modulating a bunch of WebAudio oscillator nodes together. Especially since SC is architected as multiple processes communicating
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by pierrec 6y ago
I've been keeping notes on all the browser-based audio playgrounds I come across, should probably make a review of them all at some point. In the meantime here's the list: Estuary, Zupiter, Synthesine, Gibber, Slang, Beepbox... (m
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by pierrec 6y ago
It's always worth raising this possibility, though it looks really unlikely in this case. Volcanic and geothermal activity has never released toxic phenols as far as I can tell. Instead you get simpler compounds like carbon dioxide, su
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by pierrec 6y ago
Nice! I guess you'll be the first to publish an encoder for this format. I wonder if Fabrice Bellard deliberately never published his encoder in order to encourage curiosity leading to this kind of research. Even then I never expected
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by pierrec 6y ago
I think you're talking about alpine climbing or mountaineering. Rock climbing in the modern sense does not mean that, and overhangs (not undercling, that means something else) are very common.
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by pierrec 6y ago
Whatever you make with this will be contained in a webpage. You can turn it into an app using a tool like Apache Cordova. Not the most efficient approach in terms of battery/memory/etc usage, but it works.
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by pierrec 6y ago
They're just trying to be accurate. The most important aspect of Democritus' atoms is indivisibility, so that's why fundamental particles like quarks are technically a better fit.
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by pierrec 6y ago
I wish more people saw this, and I hope then it would make them see the world differently. It samples the most wildly different people across humanity and shows how surprisingly connected they are, in a way that's both brutal and beaut
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by pierrec 6y ago
It works smoothly for a smallish diagram like this, but that's as far as it goes. I attempted to create a 100% SVG music score editor and only realized my mistake after having put way too much work into it: working with large scores wa
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by pierrec 6y ago
If it's general purpose, then I agree that visual languages always seem to be an annoyance. If it's domain-specific, that's another story, since many domains are all about connecting blocks together. The most common use case
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by pierrec 6y ago
The tutorial you linked to doesn't explain how to implement any of that stuff. But it doesn't matter because the panner in the article is fine as it is. Simple panning is often the best option in music, since filtering your sounds
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by pierrec 6y ago
I believe this minimal implementation actually over-compensates for pan law because it has a -6dB center. In other words, if you ask this tool for zero panning, it will actually divide the amplitude by 2 (probably not what most people would
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by pierrec 6y ago
Nathan Pyle / Strange Planet is great. I would say there's some The Far Side spirit in there. Not sure what to link to since Instagram doesn't allow scrolling anymore but his Twitter seems to have plenty of stuff: https:&#x2

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