Fractal Drum Machine Plays Any Beat [video]
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A video showcasing a fractal drum machine that can play any beat, sparking curiosity and some confusion among viewers.
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The video does acknowledge that and other some other musical limitations, but the biggest ergonomic one was unmentioned. Similar encodings are not located near each other, and the spatial difference only gets larger for symbols earlier in the string.
That's pretty bad if you wanted to use this as an instrument. I don't believe there is any fractal encoding scheme that could fix this. It's very silly.
It may be better off as a compression scheme. A single coordinate of modest precision could probably encode a fairly long string.