{"id":32848,"date":"2011-03-20T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/weird-app-morphs-music-to-match-the-picture-on-your-iphone-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:42:51","slug":"weird-app-morphs-music-to-match-the-picture-on-your-iphone-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/weird-app-morphs-music-to-match-the-picture-on-your-iphone-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Weird App Morphs Music to Match the Picture on Your iPhone | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16709\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b42dc_ipod.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"206\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Imagine flipping through pictures on your iPod as you listen to the Beatles&rsquo; Yellow Submarine, but instead of hearing the Fab Four&rsquo;s familiar tune, something slightly different tickles your eardrums&mdash;and it changes with each snapshot. The tempo slows when you view a Rembrandt still life, the volume goes up with the blurred image of a headbanger, and creepy laughter resounds as you look upon a dark, moonlit landscape. This is more or less what a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/onepercent\/2011\/03\/apple-modifies-your-musicwith.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=online-news\">new iPod and iPhone software application<\/a> aims to do, filtering and slightly modifying songs depending on what&rsquo;s showing on your screen.<\/p><p>As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/appft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;co1=AND&amp;d=PG01&amp;s1=20110058056.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN\/20110058056&amp;RS=DN\/20110058056\">Apple explained in a patent it published last week<\/a>, they&rsquo;ve developed an algorithm that looks at image data and determines &ldquo;one or more characteristics,&rdquo; such as &ldquo;sharpness, brightness, motion, magnification, zoom setting,&rdquo; and others. Next, an audio processor translates these photo observations into variations in tempo, volume, and pitch&mdash;adding its own sound effects to boot. The end result is a music experience that&rsquo;s fully integrated with your photo album (and some would argue, as gratuitous, stupid, and insanely fun as Apple&rsquo;s Photo Booth software). And it ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/V8mXgYkL-XEigLR-Z77G4Y61srU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b42dc_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/V8mXgYkL-XEigLR-Z77G4Y61srU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b42dc_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b42dc_UjOotnILrbM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b42dc_2MR9FgbpoKg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine flipping through pictures on your iPod as you listen to the Beatles&rsquo; Yellow Submarine, but instead of hearing the Fab Four&rsquo;s familiar tune, something slightly different tickles your eardrums&mdash;and it changes with each snapshot. The tempo slows when you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/weird-app-morphs-music-to-match-the-picture-on-your-iphone-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}