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Source: http://videoandfilmmaker.com/wp/index.php/news/watch-brilliant-video-cymatics-science-vs-music/

http://www.cymaticsource.com/pdf/CaduceusArticle.pdf

I like the visual outcome of this render. The movement of the smell and the way it blends together over time is really effective. However, I do wonder if there is too much of it? These would have to be some pretty pungent feet to give off this much smell. Which leads to another questions, does the strength of the smell indicate density or the type of smell itself?

3D smoke moving through space. This is a test set up to establish the properties of how smell travels in three-dimensional space. 

Now, firstly I’m not trying to focus on bad bodily smells. However, I had in my head that smell was more liquid in nature based on a previous research, but it is does have a smoke dynamic (technically also liquid) as this infrared video of a fart shows.

Based on the colourisation of smell, this is a visualisation of a bad smell, one associated with with smelly feet (musty). I’m exploring this in 3D to add depth and volume to the interpreted visuals. However, it is proving to be taking in relation to processing the render and I may look at an alternative approach to speed up the process.   

Source  http://blendersushi.blogspot.co.uk/?view=classic

This will now provide a nice base to establish sound waves within a site.

Source: http://www2.nict.go.jp/univ-com/mcc/people/parham/resfr_introAudio.html

The idea behind this brief experiment is to visualise sound waves in 3D form: a sphere. Although the rendering of the 3D shape does show a wave, it doesn’t appear 3D compared to the view in the UI.

Holographic Music

While thinking up ways of visualising sound that was outside of waves and visual distortion, I pondered the concept of expanding/pulsing balls. After quickly scanning the internet to look at the behaviour of sound, I came across this visualisation by ColorSimply. This isn’t necessarily the behaviour I had conceived, as I was pondering an idea which involved sound passing through the wave forms and bouncing off of impassable objects, but it’s interesting to find this commercial take on idea of sound as balls.  

I’m not exactly happy with the outcome due to computer power restrictions. I also experimented within the 3D aesthetic and unfortunately, it provided to much to process. I hope to return to this idea soon however. 

Image source: http://www.scientificpsychic.com/workbook/chapter2.htm

It is also important to remember the synesthetic relationship between animated documentary and sound as described by Honess Roe (2013).

Source:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/22/sound-and-smell-create-harmony

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