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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 18:10:42 CST
- From: Rich Chong <U41602@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <93005.181042U41602@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.fractals
- Subject: Re: Fractal sound?
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- >>I believe it's known as Shepherd's tone.
- >
- >I wouldn't have thought this qualified as a fractal --- more a
- >psychological effect. There was a very interesting article on this in
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- Thanks, I don't know if it qualifies as a genuine fractal either. I heard
- it during a general session at an IBM mainframe conference (SHARE) this
- past august in Atlanta, by the keynote speaker, IBM's Richard Voss (from
- Thomas J. Watson Research) on "Fractals, Chaos, and Computers: A new
- world view". I think he was giving an analogy of zooming in on a certain
- class of fractals to get more detail, only to find that the smaller *bits*
- resemble the the original, ad infinitum. Ya look like you're getting
- closer, but not really. The Shepherd's tone is a similar concept he gave.
-
- Does anyone have a sample, or a PC-DOS program that produces this tone?
- Thanks a lot! rich chong
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