THE VIDEO SHELF · oscilloscope art
How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound
Jerobeam Fenderson shows how to draw a mushroom on an oscilloscope in XY mode using stereo audio, then animates it by modulating with a larger wave. Pd and Max4Live patches are provided.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN finds it mesmerizing and uses it to build intuition for waveforms and oscilloscope XY drawing.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jellybean Fenderson
- Topic
- oscilloscope art
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 [VIDEO]
pyinstallwoes on Hacker News · 2022-05
In Korg NTS-2 DIY oscilloscope and wave generator kitI find this video quite mesmerizing: [VIDEO] Essentially it draws an object on an oscilloscope by splitting the audio channel into x y coordinates.
chrissoundz on Hacker News · 2017-10
In My Sudden SynaesthesiaI like this guy. I thought this was going to be a more introductory video: [VIDEO] (holy c *, he published a lot of these since 2014, they're pretty good :) ) This has been done with quake: [LINK]
MayeulC on Hacker News · 2020-05
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