Wednesday, November 14, 2007

COOL BLUE
~Here comes the Thnikkaman~

Yesterday I just realized, there's no Cool Blue Raspberry Gatorade. It's just Cool Blue flavor. Exactly what is blue supposed to taste like? If anyone here has synesthesia, please tell me what blue tastes like. Maybe it tastes like the opposite of an orange- if you invert the "cool blue" color, it turns orange. And I guess orange tastes like oranges. But what is the opposite of an orange? Hmm...you might guess a blue raspberry, but the thing is, there's no such thing. Us consumers have been brainwashed into thinking that such a fruit exists, although you will never find a blue raspberry growing anywhere outside the fallout zone of Chernobyl. I guess a blueberry, if we go by color. But we should be going by flavor, and a blueberry isn't even blue, It's purple. Maybe if we go by sound...if blue noise sounds like however, what does orange noise sound like?
_IF YOU ARE STUPID, STOP READING HERE_
If we check the Wiki...

Orange noise
Orange noise is quasi-stationary noise with a finite power spectrum with a finite number of small bands of zero energy dispersed throughout a continuous spectrum. These bands of zero energy are centered about the frequencies of musical notes in whatever scale is of interest. Since all in-tune musical notes are eliminated, the remaining spectrum could be said to consist of sour, citrus, or "orange" notes.


This is what I would call "A Nagato Explanation". Don't you just feel the essence of the Data Integration Thought Entity?

So basically, it's a sound with all frequencies that make up musical notes replaced by silence, which results in...? I'm guessing, static so dense that its waveform has no tune? I'm not sure I understand this correctly. Even worse, the Wiki has no sound sample for orange noise. Since blue noise is defined as,

"...power density increases 3 dB per octave with increasing frequency (density proportional to f) over a finite frequency range. In computer graphics, the term "blue noise" is sometimes used more loosely as any noise with minimal low frequency components and no concentrated spikes in energy..."

Maybe it sounds like something almost close to an infrasonic range, with high spikes but not exceeding the minimal frequency for human hearing. But what of the zero energy bands? And how do we convert this to a taste? Come to think of it, we can't directly convert a wavelength of energy to stimulate an equivalent sensory perception that does not correspond to any part of the energy spectrum. We could, however, go from a neural perspective. What neurons corresponding to sound/light generate a feeling similar to that generated by smell/taste?

Wow. I'm smart.

But since I don't have great knowledge in any sciences devoted to these studies, I ask you:

Are there any Otaku scientists out there?

Please answer my call!

Also, if you actually read all of this, here's a treat. I couldn't find an mp3 download since I ripped directly from the sound card when I downloaded it. And I couldn't find the place where I downloaded the awesome program hack remix. Just find a sound ripping app somewhere. You CAN do it for free (like I did). I used replaymusic, audacity, and the LAME encoder (a real app that I'm not calling lame...except for the name).

~There goes the Thnikkaman~
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