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3 pointsvova_hn29d ago5 comments

Was a little obsessed with the idea of this small browser toy. Had to make it.

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vunderba9d ago

Nice job. There was another one about 6 months ago as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211868

And AlgoMotion did a pretty popular demonstration of musical cellular automata which I highly recommend giving a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SjVwYNr54

A friend of mine just got a LinnStrument and I've been thinking about how cool it would make as a Conway Game of "Music" visualizer.

https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument

vova_hn2OP9d ago

Thanks!

Very interesting approaches, especially AlgoMotion's. Hudson (author of the first link) doesn't really tell what algorithm exactly do they use.

vunderba9d ago

Yeah I think there's a lot of room for experimentation in this area like locking the grid to musical modes (mixylodian, phyrgian), setting up intervals, etc.

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vunderba9d ago

Nice job. There was another one about 6 months ago as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211868

And AlgoMotion did a pretty popular demonstration of musical cellular automata which I highly recommend giving a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SjVwYNr54

A friend of mine just got a LinnStrument and I've been thinking about how cool it would make as a Conway Game of "Music" visualizer.

https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument

vova_hn2OP9d ago

Thanks!

Very interesting approaches, especially AlgoMotion's. Hudson (author of the first link) doesn't really tell what algorithm exactly do they use.

vunderba9d ago

Yeah I think there's a lot of room for experimentation in this area like locking the grid to musical modes (mixylodian, phyrgian), setting up intervals, etc.

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