Re: [ARSCLIST] Format conundrum

[Rick Taylor <rtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

What's an 8-bit glyph?  Never mind.  I suggest we use colored dots instead.  My
computer monitor claims to be able to display over 4 billion colors at the
32-bit setting (I assume my computer is lying to me, but I'm partially color
blind, so what do I know?), and to display up to 1.3 million dots at a time.
Converting that to a 32-bit/96kHz stereo audio file, that's ... um ... um ...
almost 7 seconds worth of information.

So all we need is a really good printer, plus a program that reads colors as
sound and vice versa, and we could print out an hour's worth of high-resolution
music on ... um ... 514 pages ...

I don't know about the math.  But imagine the garish "pictures" we could foist
upon an unsuspecting world ...


--
Rick Taylor
Graduate Research Assistant
DLSD - Audio Digitization Lab
University of Texas Libraries
The University of Texas at Austin


Quoting "Richard L. Hess" <ArcLists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi, Lance,
>
> Yes, of course...it's a simple technology. Let's say that we can get 8
> characters per inch, and they are full 8-bit characters. That means that we
> need to create a bit over 1800 feet per second for CD quality! Or, our
> 40-minute CD would take up about 835 miles of paper tape.
>
> Digital only works because of high data densities. That's why the CD
> happened 650MB on a little disc the size of a 360kB floppy disc! High
> storage density was the enabling technology for digital audio.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> At 04:17 PM 1/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi Richard,
> >
> >It would seem as though a way to achieve this would be to use the paper
> >tape that was is used in the early computer days, not individual sheets of
> >paper. The paper could then be created with archival paper specifications.
> >
> >Lance Watsky
> >Preservation & Media Specialist
> >The Georgia Archives
> >5800 Jonesboro Road
> >Morrow, GA 30260
> >678-364-3764 (phone)
> >678-364-3860 (fax)
> >lwatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >www.GeorgiaArchives.org
> >
>