Making Audio Waves That Look and Sound Like Things

Here is a short documentary I made of my explorations into this silly concept. During the creation of this video, I discovered a number of other interesting facets relating to the look of audio waves, but I wanted to keep this video short. Perhaps I'll create another video to include those other discoveries.

Cow and fish waves for download:

#waveforms #audacity #science

[japhyriddle]

If this video interested you, you might enjoy these others:
• An Audio Wave that Looks Like a Face
• Audio Raster Machine
• Infinite ASCII Cats by Means of Teletype

[andrewbowers]

This scratches the same itch as "turning a sphere inside out." Absolutely magical.

[sumanthmoole]

the fact this has less than 10k views after 4 years is so disappointing, this is such an awesome video! glad it’s getting recommended to new faces like me, loved the video bro :)

[GGCannon]

1.5 Million views in the past 9 days and I gotta say, definitely deserved. There is just something magical about seeing a cow shaped sound wave that actually sounds just like a cow.

[ravenval]

this is a good way to understand functions. waves are functions, which follow the rules described in the beginning. It must always move in one X direction (usually positive) There is no breakage per one function, and can move essentially infinitely positive or negatively in the Y direction. Functions CANNOT have multiple X values per Y values (i.e., moving backwards, like trying to draw a circle), which can be tested by the vertical line test (if any X point on the graph contains more than 1 Y value, where a vertical line can hit two points on the graph), where it fails as a function if applicable.

[aBucketOfPuppies]

This is much more commonly used with Spectrographs, which use the fourier transform of the sound. Nine Inch Nails had a song that contained an image of a giant hand reaching down and touching earth. Aphex Twin even had a selfie.

[doodledevore]

I'm quite thankful for the algorithm for recommending me this video. This was very fascinating!

[ASqdrnDA]

This feels like one of those easter eggs you can find in some old audio abandonware. Which means it feels like an old memory, especially since the cow moo sounded a little low quality. I love it.

[Ender_Onryo]

This is amazing, I've always had the idea of hiding Easter Eggs in the audio of a movie or similar and this would be a perfect way to do it while still having applicable audio.

[Shahriar]

I thank the internet, without it, I couldn’t imagine bumping into something as creative and imaginative like this!

[LunaWuna]

oh looks like i found the origin of the cow in FL studio meme

[osheridan]

It may have been years, but YouTube finally showed this masterpiece to us 😌

[CollinWilliams-bycs]

2:35 wow, I didn't know you can download fish from the internet

[antoniosworld]

I thought you had made a program that automatically converts images to soundwave samples, but it was actually quite simple as in a "you're able to recreate it at home" kind of simple. Nice!

[qsRany]

I saw this and thought it had a million views! The actual view count shocked me. Hugely underrated!

[Afrotreehousearts]

I don't know why I'm watching this at 3am but i think it's worth it.

[SubscriberCounts]

1.7M views in 10 days after 10K in 4 years, wow

[paranomac]

Why isn't this popular, it's actually a pretty cool idea lol

[SoI-]

It's nice to know this has gotten the attention it deserved after so long.

[jujt]

Glad to see that the views on this video are suddenly increasing, this was really well made