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August 01, 2006
Visual Whale
Interesting article at the New York Times.
What do whale songs and wavelets have in common? Quite a bit, and the wavelets have nothing to do with water.
Mark Fischer found a mathematical tool to translate the subtlety and nuance of whale and dolphin sounds into these mandala-like images.
In a Northern California studio, Mark Fischer, an engineer by training, uses wavelets — a technique for processing digital signals — to transform the haunting calls of ocean mammals into movies that visually represent the songs and still images that look like electronic mandalas. (His art can be found at aguasonic.com.)
Posted by joke du jour at August 1, 2006 08:03 PM
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