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Is there some tag for the stuff on the floating monitors in front of Satori here? Also, the type of sound channel display on her third eye. For that matter, about the floating monitors. I gave the tag database a check, but couldn't decide on anything.
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holographic interface is what you're looking for.
edit: Scratch that, I misread the question.
According to my music player, the vertical bar graph thing is called a spectrum analyzer, and the jagged line graph thing is called an oscilloscope.
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memento_mori said:
I would call the line display a waveform. There's also two different things that can be called spectrum displays (the bar graph and another one that looks like multicolored static) but I can't think of different names for them.
Waveforms are displayed on an oscilloscope. The bar graph in this case is...I forget what it's called, actually; I haven't really called it by name in forever. Was it EQ meter? (It's peak at a particular frequency.) There's also VU and PPM, which are different. The latter, which you describe as static, is a spectrogram.
Just by the by, that graph is bullshit, since it doesn't pass the vertical line test. Lol.
0xCCBA696 said:
Just by the by, that graph is bullshit, since it doesn't pass the vertical line test. Lol.
Poorly rendered surface curvature?
DschingisKhan said:
Waveforms are displayed on an oscilloscope.
When I hear the word oscilloscope I think of the measuring instrument. I'd say that not everything displayed on an oscilloscope is a waveform, and you can display a waveform on other things than oscilloscopes.
T5J8F8 said:
Poorly rendered surface curvature?
No, there's multiple intersections right at one of the reference lines.
zatchii said:
When I hear the word oscilloscope I think of the measuring instrument. I'd say that not everything displayed on an oscilloscope is a waveform, and you can display a waveform on other things than oscilloscopes.
Not to get too technical, but sorta, yeah. O-scopes display voltage as a function (usually of time). Audio amplitude can be converted to voltage fairly easily (which is why speakers work). Everything displaying a waveform (so we have no question where my loyalties lie) in real time is an oscilloscope (even in software). As for not everything being a waveform on a scope, well... http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp
Sorry, was trying to clear up confusion, not create more. The tag should definitely not refer to the device; that's not "seen" so much as what it displays.
