Mandalas into sound

[Steven_mandala]

Now, as I see it, graphics are transformed into sound in a linear way, from left to right. Would be great to have a feature to transform Mandala art to sound as well, using no linear graphic to sound transformation, but a mandala like way, starting from the middle of the image, as a drop into the water, circling through to center... and so transforming the image in a mandala like way into sound,

would be great to transform my mandalas into sound!

warmly,
Steven

[A_SN]

There's a way to do that using the appropriate transform. Right now you need Photoshop to do that though. I've done the following by loading the first image in the Mandala article on Wikipedia, did a Polar to Rectangular coordinates transform in Photoshop and rotate the whole thing so that the original center of the image would represent basses (and the edges represent the trebles). Loading that in Photosounder gives you the following :


http://photosounder.com/misc/mandala1.flac

Visually it's perhaps not quite what you had in mind but it's exactly what you'd get if the playback bar could spin from the centre of the image like the hand of a clock.

PS: it sounds even more dramatic if you slow it down to like 20 pixels/second.
PS #2: it sounds even more trippy at 2 pixels/second and by messing with the gamma a bit

[Steven_mandala]

There's a way to do that using the appropriate transform. Right now you need Photoshop to do that though.

thanks for answering my post. I'll surely give it a try when the present mandala project I'm working on is finished, I'm really looking forward to transform my mandala art into sound. I'm a musician as well, so I'm curious to see/hear what Photosound will make from it.

Your explanation of photoshop, I don't quite understand all of the steps you mention, I need to take some time for it to really figure it out.

Thanks - whenever I have samples, I'll surely share them,

Warmly,
Steven

[A_SN]

There's a way to do that using the appropriate transform. Right now you need Photoshop to do that though.

thanks for answering my post. I'll surely give it a try when the present mandala project I'm working on is finished, I'm really looking forward to transform my mandala art into sound. I'm a musician as well, so I'm curious to see/hear what Photosound will make from it.

Your explanation of photoshop, I don't quite understand all of the steps you mention, I need to take some time for it to really figure it out.

Thanks - whenever I have samples, I'll surely share them,

Warmly,
Steven

Oh the Photoshop instructions are very simple, all you have to do is load the image, go in Effects > Distortion > Polar coordinates... then select Polar to Rectangle and there you go. Then you might wanna flip the image vertically but that's nothing.

[Steven_mandala]

Oh the Photoshop instructions are very simple, all you have to do is load the image, go in Effects > Distortion > Polar coordinates... then select Polar to Rectangle and there you go. Then you might wanna flip the image vertically but that's nothing.

THANKS!