h a l f b a k e r yThe phrase 'crumpled heap' comes to mind.
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See link. Various notes, words, short phrases would be recorded and made into 3d prints of their wave form which is actually kind of pretty.
You'd download an app at the museum that would allow you to move your phone from one end of the sculpture to the other and play whatever sound created that
shape.
Wouldn't need to be plastic, the original 3D print could be used as a sand casting form to make this out bronze for instance.
Like so.
https://www.faceboo...RKuZmm3tk1x4oV4hSol
[doctorremulac3, Sep 08 2025]
https://warmplace.ru/soft/phonopaper/
[pocmloc, Sep 08 2025]
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I remember someone making 3D prints of waveforms like this at Shapeways. I wasn't sure the resolution was there for it to actually work in the opposite direction, but they probably sold a few. |
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That's cool, they're pretty neat looking. |
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To do full words they'd have to be pretty long, but they might say positive things like a Yoko Ono art exhibit if your'e familiar with her stuff. Seem to remember Lennon talking about climbing a ladder and at the top it said "Love" or something positive. I'd picture these maybe giving little positive messages like hope, love, etc. |
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Waveforms are nowhere near high enough resolution to scan and play back unless they are stupidly long. Think about the length of a LP groove, and the resolution that it is "scanned" by using the needle. |
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Or think of it in terms of sampling - 40 kHz gives full spectrum of human hearing, that's 40,000 samples per second. An iPhone 16 for example with a 48MP camera will have a horizontal resolution of something like 10,000 pixels max. So the phone will be able to photograph and capture 1/4 second of audio by scanning a waveform. |
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What you need is not the waveform but the spectrum of the sound. And that is widely known to exist, there are apps that you can get that allow you to print out a spectrum and then scan it with the phone to play back the sound. |
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Well, your link shows how this would work. Don't need to do any impressive math here, any representation of a squiggly line can be used to modulate a signal to generate sound. A Jackson Pollock painting can be used to generate sound. |
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Not sure I'd need a whole 1/4 second though just to say "peace" or "love" though. Also not proposing this as a replacement for a 192 kHz sample rate, 24-bit depth digital audio sampling machine, this would just make dinging noises and maybe words to such an extent that the visitor would say "Hey, I think it just blew me a kiss!" |
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Interesting thing about the 3D waveform scan is you might have to play around with it, scan if from different directions making it a further interesting interactive art piece. |
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