More or less the stuff I am working on now.
May 1 , 2008
Revised Combining Math and Music page to take account of a new study. Minor changes to Origins 12TET/EDO and Calculus 2 Animations, Home page and a few minor changes to "Interesting" and "Miscellany" and added two Romeros videos to the Links>For Musicians.
April 23, 2008
1. Revised "More Calculus", Changed some links, updated a few since yesterday, added some new material, moved some old stuff from this Update page over there and set up a table to see if it helps organize things for me. A few ideas were no doubt lost but I hope to continue research and have a decent animation by mid-summer, a reasonably good one by September. The page may change without notice till the animation is complete.
2. Added the following two sites detailing some music/math teaching techniques for the very young to the Combining Math and Music page.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2006/4/06.04.02.x.html#a
Sunny Jonas
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Math, Music, and Architecture: Kindergarten Geometry and Aesthetics in Music and Architecture
http://www.childcareexchange.com/resources/view_article.php?article_id=5015846
Karen Sawyers and Janet Hutson-Brandhagen
Music and Math: How Do We Make the Connection for Preschoolers?
March 29, 2008
1. Deleted broken Links and added some Newton material to "More Calculus".
2. Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 is or will soon be released, I'd like to get some idea how they stand with "Resolution Independence" vis a vis Mac Leopard 10.5 so I don't write unneccessary actionscript per "Monitor Resolution". (April 21, 2008, Resolution issues on hold, I'm betting Microsoft and/or Adobe comes through with a fix of some kind.)
March 13, 2008
1. More resolution experiments at "Monitor Resolution".
2. Nick, my IP Provider has suggested I stop bringing up so many browser windows with my navigation buttons. That had been a choice made many years ago to maximize simultaneous viewing of multiple animations which could not use browser "back buttons". Nick has suggested that now that browsers have tabs which allow simultaneous viewing, I may want to reconsider. Also, possibly a better template format for the html pages. Finally, perhaps, a more colorful background; maybe, I have been experimenting on the recent animations with a return to the original yellow but I have to look at these animations a lot longer than anyone else and even on an lcd screen this gray is easier on the eyes. Said reconsiderations are being considered.
3. The original Tuning History page has been removed and is now history itself, the active page is Tuning History .
March 3, 2008
1. "Strahle" modified slightly.
2. Some resolution experiments 2-5 which show some promise. They may be found at "Monitor Resolution". At least 2 and 5 will resize per the code noted on the animation
Some, but not all computer screens distort the Flash images generally turning my carefully constructed circles into ovals, and it is a common problem on many of the Java applets on other web pages as well. It seems worth some effort to get rid of the geometric distortion to whatever extent possible. Monitor screen resolutions will apparently continue to increase (doubling in a few years is my working guess today based on what is said on the various forums) and while I think it is one of the varieties of "aspect" or "pixel" ratio that is of most concern, this is at least a start.
February 25 , 2008
1. New animation "Strahle", generally to be linked from Tuning History (1743) which indicates, I think, increasing interest in 12TET at that time, a lesson in mathematical error, and some ideas and probable errors of my own.