Getting my Geek on: Snow

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Getting my Geek on: Snow Current mood: thoughtful Category: Art and Photography It snowed today. Not a lot of snow, maybe half an inch to an inch. Just enought to cover the grass mostly. You can still see a fair amount of blades. Here is the Crux of the blog: Snow is a Low Pass Filter. As I crunched along, I began to think about the tranquility that the snow brings. why? why does the snow induce tranquility? The lack of color? perhaps. The dampened sounds? perhaps. I think those things play a part. But what is it that ties it all together? Softening. The world has a lot of harshness to it. Hashness is expressed as high frequency. Not necessarily high frequency sound, but the high frequency of objects and colors too. Leading me to the conclusion that snow is nature's low pass filter. On a graph, a sharp edge or corner is composed of the highest frequencies. In fact it is said that a square wave, has it's frequency at infinity at the moment it changes from low to high or high to low. Extrapolating this into the 3d world, all corners and edges are composed of infinately high frequencies. Snow rounds these corners, thereby eliminating the high frequencies, and thus is a low pass filter. Snow also dampens sound. High frequency noises are easily absorbed by the fluffy substance. A change from one color to another, also represents a high frequency response, and so the snow, by changing all to white, removes that high frequency. The general lack of high frequencies, or at least a severely reduced amount of them, as compared to non-snow covered life, induces that scerene feeling. There you have it. The tranquility of snow reduced to a mathematical theorem. In truth, I'd rather just watch it fall while snuggling by a fire, than to work out all the details on a chalkboard. Geek: off -allenkll 8:57 PM - 1 Comments - 2 Kudos

Feisty Jackson

I am not being facetious at all when I say that there is not ONE thing I didn't like about this entry. I like when you get your geek on. Also, as I don't feel like leaving another comment on your main page I will say: 1) I love that your heroes are the Devils. GO DEVILS. (that game... was so awesome) 2) I took that inkblot quiz. I am an evil genius... I get that a lot, actually. 3) Motorcycle jacket? MEOW. 4) When I think about you, pedantic is the last word I think of. I was actually thinking about you while I was crocheting today and getting my groove on at the coffee shop while you were chatting up all the knitting ladies... and all I was thinking was... WOW, Allen is so INTERESTING. It's true. See you Sunday I hope! Posted by Feisty Jackson on Apr 19, 2007 2:42 AM