Comments on: Photos to sound & back again

By: M Pawliger

M Pawliger — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:01:52 +0000

I remember reading about this years ago. The first auspicious use of such technology was to restore a Three Stooges short where the soundtrack on the side of the film, encoded as a visual waveform, had deteriorated and only image restoration could fix it. Ah, what Science can do!

By: utm

utm — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:43:36 +0000

Hi John. There's a great Mac application by the creator of Bryce called Metasynth which does similar visual/audio synthesis. I've used it with Photoshop for all kinds of noise mangling. Those sea mammalgrams are really beautiful! :)

By: Cris DeRaud

Cris DeRaud — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:26:09 +0000

So this is what is really meant by ‘digital noise’
[Nice. :-) --J.]

By: Jim Helwig

Jim Helwig — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:03:14 +0000

The dolphin calls kaleidoscopic patterns are quite beautiful. This reminds me of the research by the Swiss Dr. Hans Jenny and his work with Cymatics using various methods to create\generate patterns using sound to excite solids and liquids. Many of the patterns resembled Tibetian Mandalas; sound creating form and structure. Here's a recent Cymatics presentation on TED(Ideas worth spreading) http://www.ted.com/talks/evan_grant_cymatics.html And another TED presentation by a composer http://www.ted.com/talks/joann_kuchera_morin_tours_the_allosphere.html Thanks. Jim

By: Diego Navarro

Diego Navarro — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:48:36 +0000

Wow!
Will Adobe come out with the same tecnology in Photoshop CSFuture?
Just Kidding.
Really Amazing!!
Hello from Brazil.