Do mouse rollovers on the circular thing to hear a pitch sequence that seems to be continuously rising http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/highest_note/fr.discrete.html Thane Plambeck 650 321 4884 office 650 323 4928 fax http://www.qxmail.com/ehome.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Pegg Jr" <ed@mathpuzzle.com> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:58 PM Subject: [math-fun] Ascending tones
The notes are shown and explained in Godel-Escher-Bach.
Just ask Scott Kim to play them for you, the next time Scott and a baby grand piano happen to be nearby.
--Ed Pegg Jr, www.mathpuzzle.com
I don't know. But I once saw it combined in a neat way with one of Escher's infinitely ascending staircases. As one watched a ball bouncing perennially upwards, one heard the ever-rising tone! I'd love to see and hear it again.
John Conway
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