Re: [Sursound] Tiltification Celebration

2022-03-01 Thread Steven Boardman
Or any builder. Have you ever seen a carpenter, bricklayer or any of those sort of trades use their phone? I certainly haven't, and you won't because they are crap... If you do, i would recommend you get someone else... I tried to work out the angle and position of some speakers once, never again.

Re: [Sursound] Tiltification Celebration

2022-03-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 08:21:19PM +0100, Tim Ziemer wrote: > The weakness of the system is not the precision of the bubble location, > which is almost perfect, but the human’s uncertainty due to bubble > curvature, refraction, etc. Only if you don't know how to read it. Such bubble levels are

Re: [Sursound] Tiltification Celebration

2022-03-01 Thread Tim Ziemer
Hi Fons, The weakness of the system is not the precision of the bubble location, which is almost perfect, but the human’s uncertainty due to bubble curvature, refraction, etc. I think the graphic perfectly demonstrates that: https://pixabay.com/photos/spirit-level-tool-craft-to-build-2081193/ B

Re: [Sursound] Tiltification Celebration

2022-03-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 01:11:52PM +0100, Tim Ziemer wrote: > Errors of more than one degree are very common. Where do you get that ? Just look up some specs. Even a cheap (20 Euro) plastic bubble level can have a sensitivity [1] of 1/2000 (0.03 degrees). Absolute accuracy is easy to check, just

Re: [Sursound] Tiltification Celebration

2022-03-01 Thread Tim Ziemer
Hi Fons, Thanks for your feedback! I would argue: A digital spirit level can be way more precise than smartphone sensors for sure. But a physical spirit level with the curved air bubble inside a colored liquid that has to be placed centrally between two lines drawn on the liquid filled tube ht

Re: [Sursound] Tiltification Celebration

2022-03-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 09:57:31AM +0100, Tim Ziemer wrote: > Through this app many people have learned > - what sonification is > - that they are well capable of leveling without looking > and, hopefully, started imagining what else sonification can offer to their > lives. Nice idea, but this

[Sursound] Tiltification Celebration

2022-03-01 Thread Tim Ziemer
***With apologies for cross-posting*** Dear Audio Artists and Researchers, Today we celebrate 20,000 downloads of Tiltification, our sonification-based spirit level app for android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.uni_bremen.informatik.sonification_apps and iOS: https://apps.a