Inspiration
Light curves look similar to sound waves
What it does
Takes the specific magnitude of light in a variable star's light curve and plays an equivalent repeated musical phrase
How we built it
Light curve data was obtained from VizieR data, and was extrapolated and filled in using machine learning techniques. The music translation is done in Javascript, using a library Tone.js which allows us to synthesize sounds. The data for over thousands of sample stars is held in a web server.
Challenges we ran into
Obtaining an algorithm properly translates the light curve magnitudes to frequencies of sound, considering the ranges of human hearing and trying to be as accurate as possible.
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