Re: Fractal sound?

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From: Rich Chong
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:10

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>>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

Thanks, I don't know if it qualifies as a genuine fractal either. I heard
it during a general session at an IBM mainframe conference (SHARE) this
past august in Atlanta, by the keynote speaker, IBM's Richard Voss (from
Thomas J. Watson Research) on "Fractals, Chaos, and Computers: A new
world view". I think he was giving an analogy of zooming in on a certain
class of fractals to get more detail, only to find that the smaller *bits*
resemble the the original, ad infinitum. Ya look like you're getting
closer, but not really. The Shepherd's tone is a similar concept he gave.

Does anyone have a sample, or a PC-DOS program that produces this tone?
Thanks a lot!   rich chong

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