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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by merelysounds on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:28PM (#32739432)
> I personally _love_ how the browser is becoming a very well-featured sandbox for shipping applications.

Same.

My latest project is a waveform generator for wavetable synthesizers [1]; there are visualizations, as well as handling audio (not real time but still). I was surprised that I could build that as a web app and achieve good UX and performance.

[1]: https://merely.xyz/waves

Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by gofreddygo on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:02PM (#32739919)
I know nothing about this. It looks cool. I want to learn more. Where do I start ?

DDG search does not help much [1], [2]

Any pointers ?

1: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=waveform+generator+for+wavetable+s...

2: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wavetable+synthesizers&ia=web

Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by comboy on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:42PM (#32740430)
Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by angrygoat on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:51PM (#32739769)
This is very cool, although I was just playing around with it and my cat cast me a filthy look and raced away at high speed. Your warning about playing the sounds is well given! :)
Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by srcreigh on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:31PM (#32739477)
You’re down. I want to see your site! When can I see it?

And your domain is really cool too. I presume it’s like a self deprecating math joke.

Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by merelysounds on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:37PM (#32739570)
I had a typo in url (wrote .xys instead of .xyz, fixed now), thanks for letting me know.

The .xyz pun was not intended, but it does make a lot of sense for a math related app. Thanks for spotting that too!

Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by srcreigh on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:47PM (#32739714)
Cool! some early feedback:

- Very hard for me to find the play button.. took like 10s of looking. I looked at the segment buttons

- Accidentally, I got some really cool sounds by mashing the play button to overlay it. Not sure why it gets distorted if it should be playing the same waves. But it sounds cool

Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by coupdejarnac on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:43PM (#32742239)
I love the Fourier transform animation.
Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by fsckboy on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:36PM (#32742858)
you should talk/reference a bit more about the fourier transform aspect https://www.geogebra.org/m/t9uspumz