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<p>
With the root, fifth, fourth, and octave in the top-left corner, the
- Lambdoma shows how the 3:2 proportion is basic to musical perception.
+ Lambdoma shows how the 3:2 proportion is essential to musical
+ perception.
</p>
<p>
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<u class="mode" name="pythagorean">Pythagorean</u> mode, where each
ratio is a power of 2 or 3. Similar notes can be found by color and
compared. One can easily hear how stacking fifths does not bring you
- back to the starting note. Find two far-apart red notes and play both
+ back to the starting note: find two far-apart red notes and play both
at once. These two frequencies are not quite the same, and they will
audibly vibrate or "beat" against each other. The interval between
- these notes is known as the "syntonic comma", and tuning systems try
- to correct for it in various ways.
+ these notes is known as the <i>syntonic comma</i>, and tuning systems
+ try to correct for it in various ways.
</p>
<p>
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<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 in a snake-like
- pattern starting from 1:1, moving outward diagonally, and thus map all of 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.
+ 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>
<h2>thank you!</h2>
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href="https://freesound.org/people/cabled_mess/packs/21410/"
target="_blank"
>cabled_mess</a
- >.
- Gradient algorithm via
+ >. Gradient algorithm via
<a href="https://iquilezles.org/articles/palettes/">Inigo Quizeles</a
- >.
- Thanks to
+ >. Thanks to
<a href="https://www.nyz.recycled-plastics.net/" target="_blank"
>Dave Noyze</a
>
for telling me about
<a href="https://www.lambdoma.com/" target="_blank">Barbara Hero</a>.
- Thanks to <a href="https://hems.io/" target="_blank">Hems</a> for
- the support!
+ Thanks to <a href="https://hems.io/" target="_blank">Hems</a> for the
+ support!
</p>
<p>Jules LaPlace / <a href="/">asdf.us</a> / 2018-2025</p>