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• 08.03.10
  Magic Circle of Fifths Mathematics, Music, Web Design | (0)

  Magic Circle analyzes your piano play and instantly shows what notes and chords you are playing. Use it for improvisation, composition or fun. DOWNLOAD [download id=2] | | [download id=3] source code [download id=1] Over the past weeks I have been working on an Processing sketch that helps you to play piano by giving you insight in what you are playing. It is based on the idea of the Circle of Fifths. Show me! A friend of mine, Freek de Graaf is a lot better at playing the piano so I conveniently used one of his arrangement to demonstrate the ...
• 04.20.10
  Origami in Nature Mathematics, Origami | (0)

  Can I represent this in paper? Pollen Origami Key to Plant Sex
• 03.15.10
  Why does our musical scale have twelve notes? Mathematics, Music | (0)

  So you see, by getting into all that Jazz music, I do notice that my knowledge about music theory is a bit sketchy. I especially have trouble counting quickly between different tones. I need this to figure out how to form a chord. Say, I want to C Major chord. I know that I need the Prime, Major Third and Major Fifth for that. I just learned that to be C, E and G. I can recall this pretty quickly now, but that's only because I have memorized the combination of root note and interval. When I want to do the same ...
• 02.21.10
  Testing out Elise Design, Mathematics, Web Design | (0)

  I have been working on a nice little program called Elise in my spare time. You can use it to create beautiful fractals. Take this for example: Stay tuned for more experiments while I try to get this code creature through alpha stage :).
• 02.21.10
  Quasi-cristalline tilings in Islamic Architecture Design, Mathematics | (1)

  That sure is a mouth full :) If you're into tilings, symmetry and computer graphics like I am, you'll love not only the beautiful results, but also the elegant mathematics behind it. Check the paper here: Decagonal and Quasi-Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture by Peter J. Lu1 and Paul J. Steinhardt (don't worry, no math formula's after the jump!) And while we're at it, I'd love to combine the work we did on the Epa:kato design tool with the use of images. Some methods are explained in the last sections of the following paper: Enjoy! ;) Dihedral Escherization by Craig S. Kaplan ...

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