Software Scope Emulator with Slow Phosphor

To help with programming the scope graphics sound generating program from the last post I wrote the scope.c program to simulate an oscilloscope for testing outside the lab. I revisited the scope.c program and added a slow phosphor and a cool scrolling effect. The result is entrancing, particularly when you pipe different kinds of files into the scope.

Here are examples of various types of files piped into the new scope simulator:

Videos:

Video of last post's audio playing on scope

[TODO: get Google to accept my video!]

Video of C source code playing on scope

Images:

rastered bitmap images (converted from pngs automatically!)




random data (/dev/urandom)


the contents of my harddisk (/dev/sda1)




an mp3




and from the audio used in the last post:

New scope.c code (with slow phosphor!!!!) is available here.

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