Saw a couple of comments on this so I thought I’d expand a little further on what I want to do.
All forms of audio can be represented by a waveform that gets displayed in something like Cooledit/Audition. When you open the MP3/Wav, it shows up as a sine wave of sorts with peaks and valleys. That “wave” of data when played through a computer produces sounds.
Imagine if you had a mono version (not stereo) of a song opened up in one of these audio editors and you sized it full screen so the whole song was visible on your monitor. You then take out your digital camera, and take a photo of your monitor with the audio on screen. The digital photo would be nothing more than a picture of the waveform. A visual representation of audio.
Now, what if you could convert that visual representation BACK to audio. Would it sound the same (unlikely)? What would it sound like?
That’s basically what I want to do with Tamara’s sunset photo. I’d be very curious to see what her photo sounds like. It’s not a bit-by-bite or byte-by-byte conversion. I mean, re-create the waveform from the actual photo of it.
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