Franzelio

September 19, 2024 11:55 AM

Draw Lines ... Make Music ... Share your Instrument
posted by chavenet (12 comments total)

This reminds me of Electroplankton's Hanenbow!
posted by aubilenon at 12:35 PM on September 19 [2 favorites]

A modernized version of Josh Nimoy’s classic Ball Droppings.
posted by chasing at 1:37 PM on September 19 [1 favorite]

Oops if there's too many balls the audio freaks out.

(Update: it just cuts out in Chrome, but in FireFox it gets terrible)
posted by aubilenon at 2:43 PM on September 19 [2 favorites]

i . . .
posted by HearHere at 2:55 PM on September 19 [2 favorites]

I love this sort of thing, though I can never make it do anything actually good.
posted by jacquilynne at 3:55 PM on September 19 [1 favorite]

I love it, and anticipate many happy zoned-out hours ahead. The secret to making it really work is the toggle function.
posted by misterbee at 6:31 PM on September 19 [2 favorites]

I have been having fun with this geometric pattern.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:44 PM on September 19 [3 favorites]

A little unclear on how the pitch works? Different colored balls have a different tone but what else?
posted by atoxyl at 7:29 PM on September 19 [1 favorite]

Different lengths of lines.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:36 PM on September 19 [1 favorite]

Not in any way that makes sense to me. I was thinking maybe longer -> lower like in a real instrument except quantized so it’s not all out of tune but sometimes shorter is randomly lower.
posted by atoxyl at 12:27 AM on September 20 [1 favorite]

It reminds me of otomata https://earslap.com/page/otomata.html
posted by interglossa at 6:01 AM on September 20 [1 favorite]

Most interesting random notes generator since the pi-to-pitch generator of maybe a decade ago. I found it again -- https://avoision.com/experiments/pi10k
posted by Droll Lord at 7:20 PM on September 20