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The audification algorithm
From data to waveforms
I’ve developed a Python algorithm for reading and browsing climate data files. With it, I can directly transform their series of readings into sounds.
Each value is assigned to a waveform sample, creating a sound file containing the corresponding waveform.
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The data are stored in three-dimensional arrays in which each cell contains a value. The algorithm traverses these arrays, converting them into a simple series of successive values. These values become the sampling points of a waveform.
To do this, I used the Numpy python library for manipulating multi-dimensional arrays.
I also used the Wave library to sample and create sound waveforms.