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"Greenhouse Effect" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
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Should the "more photons" checkbox correspond to a faster paced sound? #406

Closed Luisav1 closed 1 month ago

Luisav1 commented 1 month ago

For https://github.com/phetsims/qa/issues/1080. When I clicked the "more photons" checkbox on the Photons screen, the photons sound remains the same. I'm not sure if this was an intentional sound design choice. Although, I expected the photons sound to be either faster paced or another change in sound to signify that there are more visible photons on the screen.

jbphet commented 1 month ago

Assigning to @arouinfar, since this is more of a design question.

jbphet commented 1 month ago

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure we discussed this and decided not to do anything about it when working on the sound design, because the "More Photons" checkbox is purely a visual feature.

arouinfar commented 1 month ago

Thanks for the suggestion @Luisav1.

The goal of the "More Photons" representation is to better demonstrate the density of the photons throughout the atmosphere. The reason we choose to display fewer photons by default is to better allow users to visually track what happens to the IR photons (absorption/emission) as they travel throughout the atmosphere.

There is nothing fundamentally different when "More Photons" is checked. The surface temperature and all else remain equal. Changing the sound could imply otherwise, so I'm inclined to do nothing here. Closing.