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Rob Beschizza

AT 7:49 AM
Thursday March 26, 2009

Audio and Portables

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Every possible 4-bit 32-sample waveform...

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... is being generated as I write by a computer program. It will take about a nonillion years to complete its task. [Little-scale via Make]

A while back, Joel and I wrote a script that would generate every possible 1-bit 8x8 sprite. That was fun. We should maybe not have written it in PHP.


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3 Comments

Jordan

#1 – 9:00 AM March 26, 2009

This (and moreso your own project) reminds me of John Simon's Every Icon, a 1996 artwork comprising an LCD screen gradually displaying every possible one-bit 32x32 icon. You can check out a virtual version of the work, if you like. It will take nearly six billion years to display all of the possible configurations of just the first two lines (clock speed depending, I assume).

Simon has done a number of other "art applicances" as well.

eti

#2 – 9:27 AM March 26, 2009

Bah! This one plays all 4-bit waveforms that have 512 samples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIYoySrlGMg

RoadTransport

#3 – 2:56 AM March 27, 2009

And overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out...

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