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Monday, April 13, 2009

Whatevs BallDroppings Blippy Bloop

Posted by Steve Haruch on Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:52 AM

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Have any of you fooled around with this BallDroppings thing? Balls fall. You draw lines off of which the balls bounce, which causes the balls to produce a sound. I'm either too dense or too impatient (or both) to figure out what determines whether you get a high tone or a low tone. Sometimes it sounds neat, though. If someone hacked this so that the balls would instead trigger David Lee Roth, I'd be cool with that.

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Your job is better than my job.

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Posted by Ashley on 04/13/2009 at 12:36 PM

the tone is based on the ball speed, which is based on acceleration due to the assigned gravity

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Posted by alum on 04/13/2009 at 2:36 PM

Woah. That's awesome.

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Posted by Bawston Sean on 04/13/2009 at 3:52 PM

but then theres this, which i cant stop playing with.
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

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Posted by Mammoth on 04/13/2009 at 5:36 PM

It would be a lot better and easier to make music with if the line length determined the tone, like a guitar string... sort of.

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Posted by Steve on 04/14/2009 at 3:41 PM

My first impulse was that the line length or direction would have some effect on the sound.

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Posted by Steve H. on 04/14/2009 at 8:52 PM
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