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xenharmonic-devs / scale-workshop

Design and visualize microtonal scales and play them in your web browser. Export your scales for use with VST instruments. Convert Scala files to various tuning formats.
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SW3: Expand cents color scheme #607

Open akselai opened 6 months ago

akselai commented 6 months ago

When selecting "Cents" color scheme, user can input two things:

  1. the edo number (color wheel repeats on every 1\n interval, current color scheme is practically 1edo)
  2. the color phase (which color is 1/1 on?)

This will visualize the approximation strength of an edo against a scale.

frostburn commented 6 months ago

The "Cents" coloring scheme is focused on 1edo, but it is not strictly periodic.

A new builtin should be made for approximation strength viz: https://github.com/xenharmonic-devs/sonic-weave/issues/141

frostburn commented 6 months ago

Meanwhile, here's how you do it manually

ed(53) // Some scale

// Color everything based on 12edo
i => i hsl(360 * i % 1\12, 255, 50)

EDIT: Domain agnostic version i => i hsl(360 * linear(i ~/_ 1\12), 255, 50)