Archive for the ‘art’ Category

Love Across the Salt Desert

Monday, October 6th, 2008

by Keki N Daruwalla

Okie, Mr Daruwalla, I’ll take this down if you want me to, but till then, this here is my favourite story, straight out of my XI NCERT textbook: Love across the salt desert

Scalescape

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

scalescape

Coherence Horse

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Coherence (and history) plotted against direct to net energy ratio

It’s in Pegasus’ league.

Frequency Glides

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Problem I want to generate a sound with frequency glides.

Wild frequency glides!

Solution A frequency glide is a sound whose frequency evolves with time. Once the frequency is characterized, i.e. frequency at any point in time is known, a signal can be generated using a co/sine function.
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Bjorn Borg

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Bjorn Borg

Björn Ice-cool Borg, featured for keeping his calm on the court, no matter what.

Claude Shannon

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Claude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon, featured for his cues on research.

  • “The first one that I might speak of is the idea of simplification.
  • “A very similar device is seeking similar known problems.
  • “Another approach for a given problem is to try to restate it in just as many different forms as you can.
  • “Another mental gimmick for aid in research work, I think, is the idea of generalization.
  • “Next one I might mention is the idea of structural analysis of a problem.
  • “Now one other thing I would like to bring out which I run across quite frequently in mathematical work is the idea of inversion of the problem.

Reference: Claude Shannon. 1952. Creative Thinking

Auditory Neuroscience Lab logo, redux

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Lab logos

It is not the aim of my dissertation to design a lab logo. (It is actually better described by the blog title and in the “about” link at top right corner).

Eclectica Obscura

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
  • Tarkovsky’s Stalker, “The Roadside Picnic”
  • Ruskin Bond, “The Hidden Pool”
  • Bugnar and Florescu “Guinea Pigs”
  • Philip K. Dick “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner”
  • TV Serial: Das Bastard, Programme Computerspiele
  • Maxis Inc. Streets of SimCity Demo
  • Open Software, essay
  • Singhasan Battissi
  • Vikram-Betaal
  • Le Murailles de Samaris

Classify this!

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Two sources (red and green) are male and female, -45 and +45 degrees in azimuth, speaking simultaneously, have various features like pitch and location, that are scattered about as much as is shown in the figure. We have no issues hearing out one from the other. Neither will NEXUS 6.

time-frequency pixels of two sources with various features

Silly Seal

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Silly Seal