My Meager understanding of the process would be more like the process
used to produce a fractal image, that is iterating particular formulas
on points where that (X,Y) value has real and imaginary (complex) values
until some predefined escape value is reached (or not), and painting
that pixel a certain color ( or assigning a certain note) based upon the
number of iterations for one thing. Or MusiNum, which uses sequences of
numbers that have fractal qualities.

Someone more mathematically adept please correct my poor, flawed
explanation!

Phil


On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 15:17 -0700, Lucas Sgrecia wrote:
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> As a fractal object, it's scale-free, if I'm not mistaken.
> For that reason, I think it's not very easy to know exactly what we
> are really mapping if we try to get sound from it.
> Computer programs like a Musical Generator play music from it by means
> of mapping a vector, but not the whole Mandelbrot set, as far as I
> know. I'm not quite sure about how much processing time a mapping
> algorithm like that would take, but I think it would be very long.
> Nothing else comes to my mind right now, Mats.
> I'm afraid I can't answer your questions properly.
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> Lucas.
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> --- On Tue, 7/22/08, Mats Öljare <oljare@...> wrote:
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> From: Mats Öljare <oljare@...>
> Subject: [cnfractal_music] Converting the Mandelbrot set into sound
> To: cnfractal_music@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 8:35 AM
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> There have been various attempts to convert the Mandelbrot set into
> sound, more or less unsuccessful. However there is one way which i
> have recently thought of, and i don't know if it has been tried.
> Basically, it requires the image to be calculated to a very high
> resolution-about 40 000 pixels wide for each second of sound. Each
> sample would represent one "line" of pixels, either horizontal or
> vertical, the number of "black"versus "white" pixels becoming the
> value for the sample. It seems this might produce listenable sounds,
> possibly even harmonically complex, but i'm not sure. Does anyone know
> if this has been tried, or have the programming skills and tools to
> try to implement this?
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