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in the early days of creating "art" with waveforms, the best that could be done was making some spiffy Lissajous patterns
on an oscilloscope by driving the x- and y- axes with various inputs. Lissajous curves are the ones that look like
they were made with a child's
Spirograph. Really high-end waveform artists figured out how to drive the z-axis (intensity) to blank out the
pattern in the right places to draw more sophisticated pictures. As is usually the case, with the passage of time
comes an evolution to higher-order applications, like orchestrated Lissajous
shows.Sometime, however, artwork appears quite by accident and takes a sharp-eyed observer to recognize the image for what it is. Think of all the images of Mary that have been found everywhere from a stained subway wall to a grilled cheese sandwich. Now, RF Cafe visitor Tony T. has had just such a revelation while viewing a multi-carrier waveform for WCDMA on an Agilent spectrum analyzer. He has titled it, "One Finger Salute." Maybe that waveform was trying to tell him something...
Have you seen my Smith Chart Art page yet? How about the Technical Tattoos page? There are many videos posted online from people who have created Lissajous "shows." |
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These tech-centric jokes,
song parodies, anecdotes and assorted humor have been collected from friends and
websites across the Internet. This humor is light-hearted and sometimes slightly
offensive to the easily-offended, so you are forewarned. It is all workplace-safe.
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RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while typing up your telephone line, and a nice lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived... All trademarks, copyrights, patents, and other rights of ownership to images and text used on the RF Cafe website are hereby acknowledged. My Hobby Website: AirplanesAndRockets.com
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