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Butterfly
A Lorenz attractor encoded as 218 additive sine waves in the 1.8-7kHz band. Music composed in C minor below 1.1kHz. The butterfly is in the spectrogram. The music is underneath.
the hidden image -- spectrogram verification
listen
press play. the butterfly lives above 1.8kHz. the music lives below.
the pulse
the landscape -- frequency over time
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raw samples as pixels -- pitch as geometry, amplitude as brightness
600,000 points on the Lorenz attractor (constants 10, 28, 8/3) binned into a 220x1100 histogram. Each row becomes one sine wave. Brightness controls amplitude. The music is sine-only to avoid harmonic bleed into the image band. Bass root pulses on C2, pad chords (Cm, Ab, Fm, G), melody walks the C minor scale. Both exist in the same 24 seconds. Neither knows about the other.