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denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Scott Denham X7117) writes:

>In article <93002.002334U41602@uicvm.uic.edu> U41602@uicvm.uic.edu (Rich Chong) writes:
>>I heard that there is a fractal tone that sounds like a tone of
>>a forever increasing pitch, but in reality doesn't.
>>Is there a name to this?

>I believe it's known as Shepherd's tone. 

I wouldn't have thought this qualified as a fractal --- more a
psychological effect.  There was a very interesting article on this in
Scientific American sometime in the last year, showing how cultural
differences in tone interpretation could be due to differences in
intonation during speech.  Check it out ...

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