wave_harmonics

Simple Processing program to explore two-dimensional wave harmonics.

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Author

Enziet ([email protected])

Description

A simple script to discover how wave harmonics can create amazing patterns. A lot of the patterns will be noisy, but finding harmonics is the name of the game! There are 3 variables the user can control: frequency(f), wavelength(w), and divisor(i). Frequency and wavelength are 32-bit floating point numbers, so their value can get fairly high, and the divisor is capped between 128 and 1,920,000,000, in increments of 128.

• notes:
  • 44 and its multiples are very interesting wavelengths!
  • also note: the GUI is being done with G4P, so you'll need to add the G4P library to complile.

Controls:

• ` = return to previous frequency
• 1-0 = frequency presets: 1 = 100, 2 = 200, etc...
• spacebar = pause/unpause update
• up/down = increase/decrease divisor (i)
• scrollWheel = increase/decrease wavelength (w)
• shift + scrollWheel = increase/decrease frequency (f)

TODO:

• graphical UI for visual navigation through control variables, presets, other settings
• presets for wavelength and increment
• ability to bookmark current frequency/wavelength/increment combo
• ability to customize presets
• ability to customize hotkeys
• ability to take screenshots and record short gifs
• ability to scale frequency/wavelength increment amount (100, 10, 1, 0.1, 0.01, etc.)