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Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:38 pm
by AndyT
Too interesting to not pass on...


Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:52 pm
by Yamaha48
What a cool idee to do this.

Thanks Andy

Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:54 pm
by millponddave
So that's what music looks like, cool.

Dave

Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:42 am
by tovo
Pretty cool indeed. Do you think he's a Clapton fan by any chance?

Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:19 am
by Chasplaya
tovo wrote:
Pretty cool indeed. Do you think he's a Clapton fan by any chance?
I guess he might just have been, didn't do too badly although that thumb was way to prominent Lol Might be onto something as far as tuning goes though

Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:28 am
by tombo1230
It looks like a very cool idea for an album cover.

Tom N.

Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:13 am
by neverfoundthetime
How cool was that?
But what did we just see? Was it necessary for the camera to be inside the guitar looking out... won't it be the same filmed from outside? And why are we seeing the sine wave? SLow mo? Any science buffs with an answer... where's Wrench?

Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:59 am
by Chasplaya
neverfoundthetime wrote:
How cool was that?
But what did we just see? Was it necessary for the camera to be inside the guitar looking out... won't it be the same filmed from outside? And why are we seeing the sine wave? SLow mo? Any science buffs with an answer... where's Wrench?
How inquisitive you are, the force is within not without! You see it Mo Slow cos its Apple not Microsoft young Chris

Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:55 am
by tombo1230
Chasplaya wrote:
neverfoundthetime wrote:


How inquisitive you are, the force is within not without! You see it Mo Slow cos its Apple not Microsoft young Chris
It probably has to do with the field rate of the recording and playback.

PAL Interlace scanning at 50Hz on Uk tvs fills in all the gaps along with persistance of vision in the human eye and brain in normal circumstances. Phones will scan differently.

Tom N.

Re: Visible String Sine Waves?

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:04 am
by cabro
I have noticed this phenomenon for quite some time. If you hold your guitar in front of a television and sight across the strings, when you hit the string you should be able to see what appears to be a sine wave. At least it works on American cathode ray tube type televisions.