Investigating geometric data with sound
Author(s)
Axen, Ulrike
Choi, Insook
Advisor(s)
Editor(s)
Collections
Supplementary to:
Permanent Link
Abstract
This paper describes our work in the interdisciplinary areas of
computational topology and data sonification. The goal of our
ongoing research is to discover new methods for "visualizing"
large structures and higher dimensional structures—data that is
difficult or impossible to render with standard methods. To this end
we are researching ways to use audio to replace or supplement
graphics. Both n-dimensional data sets (n > 3) and very large 3-
dimensional data sets suffer in obvious ways from mappings to
graphical domains; audio domains, on the other hand, are
dimension-free and have the potential to portray very complex
data. Applications for this work are found in computational
biology, physics, theory of computation, and other areas, including
music composition.
Sponsor
Date
1996-11
Extent
Resource Type
Text
Resource Subtype
Proceedings