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from EyeBlog: Stephen Hawking’s Universe: Jared Ficklin’s visualisation from Flash on the Beach

In tribute to Stephen Hawking, Ficklin charted a four-hour audio recording of The Cambridge Lectures. The sample’s amplitude pushed a red line along the X-axis, and the Y-position varied according to vocal inflection (see top). At the end of every sentence, Ficklin’s program plots a star: a long sentence gets a small star, a shorter sentence gets a bigger one. After removing the red lines, you are left with… Stephen Hawking’s Universe… Read more…