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How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound

Jellybean Fenderson

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2016 to 2022.
  • Presented by Jerobeam Fenderson, audio-visual artist

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

2.3M views12 years ago4 recommendations

Graphics and audioHardwareCreative codingAudio and DSPElectronics

Jerobeam Fenderson demonstrates how to generate stereo audio signals that draw animated mushroom shapes on an oscilloscope in XY mode.

lissajous shrooms tutorial full audiovisual album: oscilloscopemusic.com audio download for proof that it works (192kHz WAV): oscilloscopemusic.bandcamp.com/track/how-to-draw-mushrooms-o… more mushrooms: youtube.com/watch?v=19jv0HM92kw Pd patch: oscilloscopemusic.com/puredata.php#mushrooms&butterflies Max4Live patch: oscilloscopemusic.com/maxforlive.php#mushrooms0.3

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4 people recommend this

What people say. Highly recommended as a fascinating and creative demonstration of oscilloscope art and audio-visual programming.

friendlysockon Lobsters • Recommends

How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound

pyinstallwoeson Hacker News • Recommends

On “Korg NTS-2 DIY oscilloscope and wave generator kit”

Anyone have a some tips on wanting to build intuition on wave-forms, electronics, and having fun with an oscilloscope? This was amazing to me: How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound link to this video

chrissoundzon Hacker News • Recommends

On “My Sudden Synaesthesia”

I find this video quite mesmerizing: link to this video Essentially it draws an object on an oscilloscope by splitting the audio channel into x y coordinates.

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On “The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction counter”

I like this guy. I thought this was going to be a more introductory video: link to this video (holy c *, he published a lot of these since 2014, they're pretty good :) ) This has been done with quake: link

tomatopotatoon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Visualising sound: Laser and mirror and sound”

Very cool! Reminds me of Jerobeam Fenderson using the XY mode in ossiloscopes to draw images with stereo sounds: link to this video

basqon Hacker News • Mentions

On “How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It”

What you've written is extremely interesting. Not sure how much of it I truly understand, but I wanted to add that your explanation for everything as a wave function reminded me of oscilloscope music, ie. depicting images with waveforms. A tutorial I watched demonstrates the drawing of a mushroom, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave. In my laymen's head model, Spacetime is like a very large wave that everything else is being modulated by. Here's the relevant video: link to this video