Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you 'hear' colors and shapes

Re:Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you 'hear' color... by jonnycomputer on Thursday February 11, 2021 @02:11PM (#26105795)

Transforming colors or shapes into sounds is trivial, and there are an infinite numbers of ways to do it (e.g. for each RGB value assign a tone, or set of tones, and bam! there ya go.) So it's not like that by itself this project very interesting. Or maybe I'm missing something?

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Re:Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you 'hear' color... by jfengel on Thursday February 11, 2021 @02:33PM (#26106027)

The point is that some people experience that naturally, and those who don't are intrigued. This is a way of simulating that experience for them.

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Re:Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you 'hear' color... by jonnycomputer on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:48PM (#26109122)

How? Anyone can program something where you point-click and the color you see becomes paired with some sound. How is this any more insightful that that?

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Re:Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you 'hear' color... by jfengel on Friday February 12, 2021 @09:08AM (#26113767)

Anyone can program it. Somebody did.

It's difference between writing a video game and playing it. People enjoy the experience differently from knowing that it could be written.

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