Pretty Pictures

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=Connections between sound and vision= 
* Pictures can facilitate understanding a particular concept of tuning, especially for visual learners.
* Cross-pollinating aims: thinking visually or spatially may lead you to ideas for new tunings, and thinking about tunings may lead you to new concepts of 
* Some listeners report having [[visions]] when in the presence of a particular tuning or piece of music.
** Moreover, a small percent of people experience [[synaesthesia]] (seeing certain colors when they hear certain sounds, for example)
=Aids to understanding= 
===The ruler metaphor for microtonality=== 
An entirely boring yet informative metaphor.

===The colors metaphor for microtonality=== 
Imagine you're a painter. All your life, you have been told that there are only twelve colors, that any shade between two of the colors is just an out-of-tune version of one of the 'real' colors...

===Equal divisions burst=== 
[[image:et_burst.png align="center"]]
This is a polar graph of the values of all the fractions between 0 and 1 with numerator less than 32. The top represents both 0 and 1 (modulo 1); the fractions' values sweep clockwise; the closer to the center, the smaller the numerator. This graph accompanies the chart [[edo anatomy|Anatomy of an Equally Divided Octave]]. //Currently 26-divisions is excluded//!

===JI, temperament Lattices=== 
Tonalsoft's Tonescape makes it possible to compose with scales that are represented by two- or three-dimensional lattices. Tempering a comma out of a lattice turns it into a closed structure...

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 An entirely boring yet informative metaphor.<br />
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 Imagine you're a painter. All your life, you have been told that there are only twelve colors, that any shade between two of the colors is just an out-of-tune version of one of the 'real' colors...<br />
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 Tonalsoft's Tonescape makes it possible to compose with scales that are represented by two- or three-dimensional lattices. Tempering a comma out of a lattice turns it into a closed structure...</body></html>