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Show HN: A spectrogram in the style of Unknown Pleasures album art (Rust+WebGL)

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I really like the look of the famous album art for Unknown Pleasures [1]. It was originally created by Harold Craft at the Arecibo Observatory from the signals of the first discovered radio pulsar [2].

I made a spectrogram that produces a similar look. It runs FFT in Rust and visualizes it with WebGL.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UnknownPleasuresVinyl.jpg

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21

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Really nice work - love the aesthetic. It'd be great to have this as a JS library with support for arbitrary audio inputs.

Nice work, really nice aesthetics

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