The following problem is considered by Bjorklund, in connection with the operation of certain components (such as high voltage power supplies) of spallation neutron source (SNS) accelerators used in nuclear physics.
Construct a binary sequence of n bits with k one’s, such that the k one’s are distributed as evenly as possible among the zero’s. For [...]
After two or three years of halfheartedly playing with SuperCollider every now and then, I finally bothered to read the documentation for it’s language-side (as oppose to server-side) sequencing features. This is what most SC users are, for good reason, most enthusiastic about. It’s a very flexible and (as far as I know) unusual approach [...]
A few months ago I was living in Britain, working for a company that made engines for UAVs, writing some graphical interfaces for an engine test system in Processing.
In my spare time I worked on some code to generate animations, which I plan to post over the next few weeks.
This first “sketch” (script, application, etc.) [...]
In the first of what I hope will be many Supercollider posts, I’m dissecting a fairly straightforward wobble bass snippet.
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var trig, numSmp, rate, freq, wobble,out,note,mod;
freq = (140/60)/3; // It’s not dubstep if it’s not at an integer multiple of 140bpm.
trig = Impulse.kr(freq); // Main tempo pulse
note = Demand.kr(trig, 0, Dseq([40, 43, 47, 47, 40, 49-12, [...]
So there isn’t much I can do on the VU meter project until I get a hold of an oscilloscope. The next logical step would be to design the envelope follower that the comparator will receive input from, but doing this “blind” would be difficult. In the mean time I thought I’d check that the [...]
This is Patterson Office Tower (POT) on The University of Kentucky campus. It’s home to a small cafe/mezzanine, an obscure mathematics library, and the offices of all the professors and bureaucrats who don’t fit in the endearingly inefficient buildings elsewhere on campus. If, as civil engineers like to say, architecture is the art of wasting [...]