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authorjulian laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com>2025-07-29 13:37:31 +0200
committerjulian laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com>2025-07-29 13:37:31 +0200
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@@ -261,11 +261,9 @@
*/
.root-select {
position: fixed;
- top: 0;
- left: 0;
+ top: 1rem;
+ right: 50px;
z-index: 1234;
- width: 100%;
- height: 100%;
display: flex;
align-items: flex-start;
justify-content: flex-end;
@@ -291,8 +289,6 @@
padding: 1rem 0.5rem 0 0.5rem;
backdrop-filter: blur(6px);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
- margin-top: 1rem;
- margin-right: 50px;
}
.root-select .row {
display: flex;
@@ -379,11 +375,16 @@
.root-select {
align-items: flex-start;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
+ top: 0;
+ right: 0;
+ width: 100%;
+ height: 100%;
}
.root-select > div {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
+ height: 100%;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
border-radius: 0;
@@ -401,14 +402,15 @@
<h1>Triangle / Lambdoma</h1>
<p>
- This instrument offers a wide palette of just intonation intervals.
+ This page is a musical instrument made up of a grid of just intonation
+ intervals, all based on a root frequency.
</p>
<p>
The rows display the <b>overtone series</b> (1/1, 2/1, 3/1 ...). The
- columns multiply out the <b>undertone series</b> (1/1, 1/2, 1/3, ...).
- The resulting intervals are instantly musically meaningful, though
- they arise from simple, whole-number ratios.
+ columns follow its inverse, the <b>undertone series</b> (1/1, 1/2,
+ 1/3, ...). Multiplying everything out, the resulting intervals contain
+ an inherent music arising from simple, whole-number ratios.
</p>
<p>
@@ -555,7 +557,7 @@
<h2>about this page</h2>
<p>
- This webpage was inspired by
+ This webpage was inspired in part by
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdSYkI86go"
>Peter Neubäcker</a
>, inventor of the Melodyne software. In the short biographical
@@ -637,13 +639,13 @@
The next prime number interval, 5:4, is a just major third, and its
inverse, 4:5 is a minor third. Thus the overtone series sounds
"major", and the undertone series sounds "minor". The next prime
- number out, 7, expresses a "Lydian" tonality.
+ number out, 7, extends the minor to diminished, and major to dominant.
</p>
<p>
At this point, we have just enough notes to form a fairly melodious
just-intonated scale, which you can play using your computer keyboard.
- Within a just-intonated tuning system, each scale can sound highly
+ Within a just-intonated tuning system, each interval can sound highly
distinctive, since the notes are not distributed evenly across the
octave.
</p>
@@ -688,11 +690,14 @@
<h2>tone and transfinite sets</h2>
<p>
- Equal temperament invokes irrational numbers, creating in-between
- intervals which do not exist on the Lambdoma. Notes in equal
- temperament are separated by an irrational ratio of 1 to the 12th root
- of 2 (1:<super>12</super>√2), which can only be approximated by
- whole-numbered fractions.
+ Intervals in just intonation are rational numbers, composed of a
+ numerator and denominator that are both whole numbers. Notes in equal
+ temperament, however, are separated by a semitone of 1 to the 12th
+ root of 2 (1:<super>12</super>√2), an irrational number, and can only
+ be approximated by rationals. By definition, any real number might be
+ at the theoretical limit of the Lambdoma in any direction, but by
+ definition these numbers are not rational numbers, and are thus only
+ approximated by the intervals of the Lambdoma.
</p>
<p>
@@ -700,12 +705,13 @@
transfinite set of rational numbers ℚ, which Cantor proved
<i>countably</i>
infinite. Consider that although there are infinitely many natural
- numbers, we may count our way up to each one, starting from 1.
- Similarly, we can count the cells in a Lambdoma by starting from 1:1
- and moving outward diagonally in a snake-like pattern, thus mapping
- the rationals to the natural numbers. Though there are infinitely many
- rational numbers, by their nature they are discrete, countable, and
- not completely dense. Between any two rational numbers, there lies an
+ numbers, each of these numbers is by definition finite, and we may
+ count up to it by starting from 1 and adding 1 repeatedly. Similarly,
+ we can count the cells in a Lambdoma by starting from 1:1 and moving
+ outward diagonally in a snake-like pattern, thus mapping the rationals
+ to the natural numbers. Though there are infinitely many rational
+ numbers, by their nature they are discrete, countable, and not
+ completely dense. Between any two rational numbers, there lies an
uncountable continuity of real numbers in ℝ.
</p>