Hi everybody.
This is just my farting around with octaves and light frequencies in a (non-rigorous) fun experiment, and coming up with something kind of neat to share.
It was an experiment to see how the appearance of the color spectrum changes by altering (1) the direction of the octave (ascending from violet to red or descending from violet to red), and (2) whether frequency or wavelength is used to determine the interval spacing.
If you want more details about how I made it you can find it in the description here _http://whispercrest.deviantart.com/art/Octave-Experiment-261274650
You can judge for yourself which is the most beautiful or harmonious one, but I think the most beautiful of the spectra listed is the far left one: frequency used to compose an octave in intervals descending from violet. This makes sense to me because violet is by its nature high frequency and when moving to red, would naturally follow the intervals prescribed by the descending octave.
This is just my farting around with octaves and light frequencies in a (non-rigorous) fun experiment, and coming up with something kind of neat to share.
It was an experiment to see how the appearance of the color spectrum changes by altering (1) the direction of the octave (ascending from violet to red or descending from violet to red), and (2) whether frequency or wavelength is used to determine the interval spacing.
If you want more details about how I made it you can find it in the description here _http://whispercrest.deviantart.com/art/Octave-Experiment-261274650
You can judge for yourself which is the most beautiful or harmonious one, but I think the most beautiful of the spectra listed is the far left one: frequency used to compose an octave in intervals descending from violet. This makes sense to me because violet is by its nature high frequency and when moving to red, would naturally follow the intervals prescribed by the descending octave.
