sirkitree/aframe-ephem

aframe-ephem's Issues

Background audio

Might be nice to have some binaural beats or something as the background music.

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A binaural beat is an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine waves, both with frequencies lower than 1500 Hz, with less than a 40 Hz difference between them, are presented to a listener dichotically (one through each ear).

Songbird integration for spatial audio

It would be great to have this integrated for a better audio experience. It could provide more true spatial audio as the planets rotate around you.

References

• https://github.com/resonance-audio/resonance-audio-web-sdk
• examples: https://cdn.rawgit.com/google/songbird/master/examples/index.html

Aframe examples

• https://songbird-aframe.glitch.me/
• https://g.co/insidemusic
• aframe-resonance: https://github.com/etiennepinchon/aframe-resonance

Tones of the planets

Planetary Notes

• Mercury: C sharp
• Venus: A
• Mars: D
• Jupiter: F sharp
• Saturn: D
• Uranus: G sharp
• Neptune: G sharp
• Pluto: C sharp

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Currently I have generated tones on the 3rd octave.

• tone generation: http://onlinetonegenerator.com/
• note frequencies: http://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html

@kentbye noted that we may want to go up an octave or more.

I think the audio has to be a higher pitch to hear the spatialization. Maybe try just the moon to really hear it.

Date/time input ideas

1. Radials

• aframe ui widgets: https://github.com/caseyyee/aframe-ui-widgets
  • radials
  • buttons
  • sliders
• month/day radials
• time has various hands of an analog clock to adjust

2. Dodecahedrons

• would have to be a new component
• select a number on a 12 sided die
• spin it around to select a number
• the number facing you would be the selection
• takes care of month/day but not year or time

3. Radials 2

• could handle minute/hour/second and a separate one for month
• move a sphere around a constraint curve, certain vectors indicate certain values
• what about year?
• selection indicator shown in the middle but could be anywhere - middle make the most sense?

Hook up ephem calcs

ephemeris

• n.
• A table giving the coordinates of a celestial body at a number of specific times during a given period.

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This issue is to track getting ephemeris calculations hooked up to the rotation of the planets.

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references:

• html5 canvas: http://natatransits.com
• code for ephemeris calculations: https://github.com/kentbye/ephemeris

New models for hands

Currently we have the default models from aframe for the hands. @kentbye mentioned that these will not be sufficient. This issue is to track finding and adding new ones that are.