"Want to try something hard?" asks Ze Frank. His sound-powered drawing toy produces some wacky results. Low volume produces counterclockwise curves, medium volume goes straight, and high volume curves clockwise. I’d love to see videos of people trying to use this thing. (I’m letting it run in a team meeting, but voices are too faint to do much interesting.) [Via]
Johannes Kreidler fed Microsoft Songsmith with charts based on plunging stocks, deaths in Iraq, and other dismaying stats. The results are kind of depressingly awesome. [Via]
2 thoughts on “Drawing from sound”
John, you said:
I’d love to see videos of people trying to use this thing. (I’m letting it run in a team meeting, but voices are too faint to do much interesting.)
Just invite Jeff Schewe – problem sorted! Should be a masterpiece!
Rod [Heh–great idea, Rod. 🙂 –J.]
The idea is great. I’m just wondering if you could make it a little less sensitive because it makes very small turns and pretty soon it is tangled to itself. Larger curves would make more interesting drawings.
John, you said:
I’d love to see videos of people trying to use this thing. (I’m letting it run in a team meeting, but voices are too faint to do much interesting.)
Just invite Jeff Schewe – problem sorted! Should be a masterpiece!
Rod
[Heh–great idea, Rod. 🙂 –J.]
The idea is great. I’m just wondering if you could make it a little less sensitive because it makes very small turns and pretty soon it is tangled to itself. Larger curves would make more interesting drawings.