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Pendula is a single and two player network game based on intervals. The single player version is guessing game in which the player first hears and "sees" an interval and tries to guess that interval by playing it back using the computer keyboard. Musical intervals are visualized with a harmonogram, which is a plot that shows the relation between the two notes.
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Pendula is a single and two-player network game based on intervals. The single player version is guessing game in which the player first hears and "sees" a target interval and tries to guess that interval by playing it back using the computer keyboard. Played musical intervals are visualized with a harmonogram, which is a plot that shows the relation between the two notes. In the two-player version, players compete against each other to find the target interval in a more challenging way: the last two notes they played are used to form the current interval, so a player should choose what note to trigger depending on what his opponent played.
  
== About ==
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== Motivation ==
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The idea came when I was making my way out in the bookstore and I bumped over a book called [http://www.amazon.com/Harmonograph-Visual-Guide-Mathematics-Wooden/dp/0802714099/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291832752&sr=8-1 Harmonograph, A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music]

Revision as of 11:27, 8 December 2010

Pendula is a single and two-player network game based on intervals. The single player version is guessing game in which the player first hears and "sees" a target interval and tries to guess that interval by playing it back using the computer keyboard. Played musical intervals are visualized with a harmonogram, which is a plot that shows the relation between the two notes. In the two-player version, players compete against each other to find the target interval in a more challenging way: the last two notes they played are used to form the current interval, so a player should choose what note to trigger depending on what his opponent played.

Motivation

The idea came when I was making my way out in the bookstore and I bumped over a book called Harmonograph, A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music