Sampling a sound
Pixels & colour depth
Inside one colour
Practice
The sound going in
Fundamental frequency
1000 Hz
Sample rate
8000 Hz
Bit depth per sample
6 bits
Channels
stereo
Length of the clip
30 s
the real signal
the staircase that is stored
the quantisation error
what plays back
The picture in front of the lens
Resolution
24 × 18
Colour depth
12 bits
the scene it was taken from
the pixel grid lines
fill it in row by row
Red
214
Green
91
Blue
40
Bits kept per channel
8 bits
Start from
terracotta
jade
indigo
near-white
the signal, its samples, and what is actually stored
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How to think about it
Common mistakes