MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOS 1

PARTICAL STEREOSCOPIC VIEW MADE
BY CAMERA HELD AT LEFT EYE
THEN AT RIGHT EYE


Gently going cross-eyed is the
best way to see this pair of photo stereo.







A temporary flow tube
is tried. The spent core of a
roll of paper towel is cradled on a
stand of two starflakes. Such hollow tube
flow tubes worked when sound sonics were really
poor at the start of a new test or experiment. After a
point such hollow tubes (including cores from rolls of toilet
paper would have to be removed because they inhibited higher volume
higher power deeper base resonances and interferred
with sonic qualities in better sound.

AD HOC ASSEMBLIES

One thing
that seemed to work
on the spur of the moment as an
hoc add-on during different experiments
was a giant magnifying glass set on top of a starflake.
Something about this configuration worked to boost terrible sound
into something quietly listenable but it was not a good
sonic conducer because whenever a sound stream
got boosted to major proportions during
a serious experiment the magnifying
glass and starflake would have
to be temporarily dissolved
because it had become
a spoiler no matter
where placed.

















A hand cut
paper doily sits
on the table, oddly
enough the doily able to
effect sound even though it lay
flat, the minimum topology offered by
its fractal contours stirred up new vibes in the
sound patterns moving all different ways over its contours.


In this view
it can be seen
that two paper stars
are stacked pyramid fashion
and a 3rd hand cut paper star made
from the same snowflake geometric matrix
as all of the cutouts and mobiles, is suspended in
the air over the table by a support made of bent copper wire.
In the upper left background is a heart shaped slinky. Several of these
were used for awhile until better uses of stretched hexagon
slinkies were found. At first the hexagon slinky did
not have a high sonic performance. Round and
heart shaped seemed to perform better
when looped like inch worms or
tucked in crannies. When
it came about that
hexagon slinkies
got stretched, their
new performance was so
much better that soon all other slinkies
except for a couple were taken out and put in storage.











ANOTHER AD HOC ARRAY


I have
no idea what the
red blotch on the computer is
its in the photo, not the experiment.






This photo shows
several devices cited elsewhere,
all gathered on the table for an experiment.
A pulsed timer with a different cutout taped to its second
hand sits at the front of the table. In the back corner is the device
called the 'Ferris Wheel'. The 'Bird Cage', not easily seen,
is behind a giant starflake and is being supported
by its stand, a six sided hydro extender.
The 'Ferris Wheel' is also sticking
out of a hydro extender, these
got a couple of years before
at a junk yard sold by the
weight of the metal, ie
about 8 dollars for a
dozen of them. The
giant starflakes
are supported
on stands of
copper wire.







The two hollow round
art paper collars were made
by wrapping the art paper around a
hydro extender then taping it to hold shape.
These collars were first put into tests as miniature
flow tubes and echo chambers for experiments but later came
to be used entirely for supporting pulsed timers vertically upright.


If you are still missing the
gist of the concept of 'flow tubes'
Dr. Bose of speaker making fame uses them in
a line of small advanced radios in which hollow plastic
tubes assymetrically placed inside the radio cabinate trunk sound
out through hollow ports to the open air, setting up resonance frequencies
that dramaatically expand the base performance of the small radios.
Dr. Bose is tapping into sonics, but, it is doubtful
Dr. Bose can produce stereo from a single
speaker mono source at this
time, circ. 1997.

OTHER MISCELLANEOUS

There was
always something
going on in between main
experiments. Ad hoc tuning arrays
and devices made by patching things together
were always been tried. Often, in the rented 3 bedroom
house, the dining room was put to work for temporary ideas. Here are
a few photos showing some of the things tried as ideas and
abandoned. At times one or another device would be
found that boosted sonics enough to be left
in place to better the background
music coming from the living
room while work progressed
on the computer. I can't
say if anything seen
in this quick show
of miscelleneous
ad hocs were
there for
background music.












Above
a starflake
made of pink and
white snowflakes, sitting
on a paper cutouts, several similar
cutouts made as platforms for dangling steel
slinkies shown in the 'Stretched Slinkies' series.


see the Stretched Slinkies photo series

PENCILS

Pencils (6 sided not round)
can always be used as temporary sonic
boosters, even in your own house. Lay a pencil
in a hot spot found by trying a number of different places
until one place is found that particularly boosts the sound. Rotate the
pencil (it does not have to face directly to a sound generating
source). Several pencils just on their own can open up
fidelity in a sound source, also boost the range
(more clear in the high end, more base, and
deeper base). Pencils were used many
times at the start of a new test
to provide better basic sound
to get things started. After
a while the pencils always
became spoilers so were
removed. In the above
photo pencils craddled
in the uprights of starflakes
worked particularly well but, hard to do,
the weight of the pencils caused the starflakes to
rotate dumping the pencils. A balance had to be struck, not always
the best inducer of sound the resulting balance but still better than
no pencils at all. The cores of spent rolls of paper towel also
prooved to work in starting the buildup of a new sound
stream in a new experiment, soon enough having to
be removed once the new sound was built up to
a workable level. The best pencils have
sharply defined six sided edges. Some
pencils have vague angles at the
edges and these are blurry
compared to pencils
with sharp angled
edges. Sanding
pencils down
to real sharp
angles along the six
sided edges is worth the effort












Laying the pencils
in those crossarms was
a particular task, a more or less
perfect balance point left no variance
the pencils either stayed, or one or the other of
the craddled starflake arms would start to slowly rotate down
seconds later. It could take up to half an hour to get both pencils
layed in place, yet once set the pencils would stay put for days
even allowing the device to be picked up and moved
around if the hands were rock steady some
days the hands trembled a bit not
a problem at my age a fact
the degree of complete
steadiness taken for
granted, which is
why the pencils are
cradled asymmetrically,
identical side by sides would
not balance so that aspect of the pencil's
contribution to the sound stream could never be tested.


HELPFUL HINT X


Use tin foil to
make temporary flow tubes
that work very well. Wrap the foil around
a pencil and then station it somewhere where it noticably
kicks the sound stream. About 3 or 4 inches long, cigarette paper works
particularly well compared to, say, oven grade aluminum foil.
You have to take care to keep the roll as evenly six
sided hexagram shaped as possible, distortion
in the roll (flattening) can cause serious
distortion in the sound you might not
notice but if several distorts are
put in place you can have far
worse than when you started.




DONE


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