29th July 2005, 4:47 PM
Well Darunia, you would have a point if this was something along the lines of using a laser to measure the distance of clouds and converting that to sounds, and perhaps even specific instruments for varying height levels. There is no corrolation there except what the programmer decides on. (However, I would not call that a waste. What good is art? What good is a newborn baby?!)
This however is a pretty direct conversion of light waves to their sound wave equivilant. Instead of oscilating electromagnetism, it's oscilating matter. It is a much truer equivilant of sensory conversion than other such things one might do (like a visualization plugin for example). As I said, the light waves for the first site, at least, are actually within the range of human hearing as far as the numbers go, except that it's light. This conversion is pretty accurate.
Oh yes, that'll work too GR. It works basically because of interference, and it'll work with other things too, like a microwave or refrigerator, or basically anything that produces a fairly strong electromagnetic field. Keep in mind those fields have zero chance of giving you cancer. They aren't energetic enough to break apart the bonds in DNA.
This however is a pretty direct conversion of light waves to their sound wave equivilant. Instead of oscilating electromagnetism, it's oscilating matter. It is a much truer equivilant of sensory conversion than other such things one might do (like a visualization plugin for example). As I said, the light waves for the first site, at least, are actually within the range of human hearing as far as the numbers go, except that it's light. This conversion is pretty accurate.
Oh yes, that'll work too GR. It works basically because of interference, and it'll work with other things too, like a microwave or refrigerator, or basically anything that produces a fairly strong electromagnetic field. Keep in mind those fields have zero chance of giving you cancer. They aren't energetic enough to break apart the bonds in DNA.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)