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The NYC subway system as a string instrument
- Jun8 16y agoThis is really intense! I salute the mind level that conceives such a concept (and comes up with a cool visualization).
- taylorbuley 16y agoAnother weekend, another amazing HTML5 app produced. If only I could put these minds towards making some money..
- bprater 16y agoRight now, it's great to just see people expending their creative energy exploring the possibilities. They are on the leading edge giving us great ideas on how to make good use of this type of technology moving forward.
- kahleballs 16y agoApparently the creator, Alex Chen, works at Google Creative Labs. http://twitter.com/#!/cwiggins/status/32178375015530496 http://twitter.com/#!/cwiggins/status/32178375015530496
- icco 16y agoI totally agree. I was kind of hoping the authors name would be in the source (http://mta.me/js-conductor/ http://mta.me/js-conductor/) but no such luck. It is pretty interesting code to read through though.
- spacemanaki 16y agoThis might be the author? http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/ http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/
- c3o 16y agoHe also makes wonderful music as http://boyinstatic.com http://boyinstatic.com and http://theconsulategeneral.com http://theconsulategeneral.com. He made a neat (mildly) interactive Flash site for one of his songs years ago: http://www.bellyfull.tv http://www.bellyfull.tv – I loved the concept of doing this instead of video. At http://www.sonatafortheunaware.com http://www.sonatafortheunaware.com he generated music from footage taken on the Philadelphia subway.
- IgorPartola 16y agoRegistrant ID:DOT-Z21GM2Q2ZICY Registrant Name:A C Registrant Organization: Registrant Address:13 Charter Street Registrant Address2:Apt. 3Front Registrant Address3: Registrant City:Boston Registrant State/Province:MA Registrant Country/Economy:US Registrant Postal Code:02113 Registrant Phone:+1.2154175999 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant E-mail:chenalex@seas.upenn.edu
- blhack 16y agoDon't you think that posting that is a bit rude? Yeah, you could look my address up in the phone book, but I generally don't go signing my posts on reddit with it.
- IgorPartola 16y agoI honestly don't. The question arose as to the identity of the author. It is only a $ whois mta.me away. I saved other the trouble, just like the sister post linked to his blog. If this offends you, I apologize.
- jedsmith 16y agoI've honestly never understood this mindset, and this isn't the first time I've seen it. I'm willing to learn if someone is willing to explain it to me. The information is there, but please don't share it visibly. Make people look for it! It makes shockingly little sense.
- 7402 16y agoBy posting someone's e-mail address in a very public web site, you are just making it that much more accessible to spammers. It is easier to spider news.ycombinator.com than to do so for many whois repositories, some of which explicitly try to block their records from spammers. But even more importantly, as a matter of simple politeness, it is a good rule to honor someone's choice about how much they reveal about themselves on-line, even if you possess the technical knowledge to dig deeper. We're talking about rudeness vs. courtesy here. The world will not be a better place if your algorithm is simply to find out as much as you can about someone and then broadcast it in as public a fashion as possible without regard to the person's wishes.
- icefox 16y agoLoading Sound is always at 0% for me.
- sambeau 16y agoThere's a video with working sound, here: http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/ http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/
- wigginus 16y agoDid you enable Flash? I had the same problem at first, but after enabling Flash it worked fine.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoDitto for me in Firefox, with adblock and flashblock running. I suspect one of the two is the culprit.
- endtime 16y agoWorks fine in the latest version of Opera.
- adrinavarro 16y agoSeems to use flash. Disabled flashblock in chrome, reloaded and worked fine. Not all html5… Nice work though.
- steveklabnik 16y agoThe source says that it uses HTML5 sound, but falls back to flash if it doesn't work.
- jefe78 16y agoChrome loads this beautifully on Ubuntu.
- lsb 16y agoIt's wonderful, if a little odd, to think of the NYC subway as a plucked guitar, versus the familiar steel-on-steel "ka-chunk, ka-chunk" as the trains rumble on the (unwelded) tracks.
- IgorPartola 16y agoThis is very cool. Here's our way of visualizing buses driving around in a novel way: http://labs.transloc.com/streetview/ http://labs.transloc.com/streetview/
- pavel_lishin 16y agoDoes it auto-update as the bus moves? I finally found a street-view image, but it's just sitting there.
- jasonfeinstein 16y agoIt depends on the bus - it randomly chooses a bus and follows it. If the bus is not moving anywhere - the view doesn't move either. Try refreshing..
- louhong 16y agoThis is pretty creative - does anyone have suggestions on how I can convert this into a screensaver?
- Zev 16y agoIf you're on a Mac, you can do it with Quartz Composer: http://www.cybero.co.uk/QuartzComposerJavaScriptGuide-Eng/index.html http://www.cybero.co.uk/QuartzComposerJavaScriptGuide-Eng/in... If you do make a Quartz composition out of this, please do share it!
- jefe78 16y agoThis is amazing. Would you consider offering a tutorial to implement alternate systems(other cities)?
- CognitiveLens 16y agoIn case you haven't discovered it - you can click-and-drag your mouse across the lines to make sounds in addition to waiting for the lines to 'pluck' themselves
- britta 16y agoThey should crash and shatter, like lightcycles.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoThey should be randomly delayed, like MTA trains.
- zelandpanther 16y agoInteresting, it's creative and artistic engineering.
- goldins 16y agoOpen up a few tabs for a more fun and chaotic track! Though I am having some syncing issues when one of the tabs is active.
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