File:Harmonic Partials On Strings.svg
Created by a specially written program in the Lua programming language. To recreate the image just run the program, and it will write the SVG into a file. There are various parameters that can be adjusted at the start of the code. The sine-wave approximation using Bezier curves is derived from Bezier curve sinewave approximation (PDF) by Jim Fitzsimmons.
local MARGIN = 10
local AMPLITUDE, WAVE_WIDTH = 30, 600
local GAP_BETWEEN_WAVES = 25
local NUM_WAVES = 7
local FONT_SIZE, FONT_FUDGE = 20, 5
local WAVE_STYLE = ' stroke="#000" stroke-width="1.5" fill="none"'
local img_wd = 2 * MARGIN + WAVE_WIDTH
local img_ht = 2 * MARGIN + NUM_WAVES * AMPLITUDE * 2 +
(NUM_WAVES - 1) * GAP_BETWEEN_WAVES
local PI = math.asin(1) * 2
local XD = PI / 12
local SQRT2 = math.sqrt(2)
local Y1 = (2 * SQRT2) / 7 - 1 / 7
local Y2 = (4 * SQRT2) / 7 - 2 / 7
local Y3 = SQRT2 / 2
local Y4 = (3 * SQRT2) / 7 + 2 / 7
function sine_wave_path (x, y, width, amp, num_half_waves)
local xmul = width / (num_half_waves * PI)
local xd = XD * xmul
local path = 'M' .. coords(x, y)
for _ = 1, num_half_waves do
path = path .. ' C' .. coords(x + xd, y + amp * Y1)
.. ' ' .. coords(x + 2*xd, y + amp * Y2)
.. ' ' .. coords(x + 3*xd, y + amp * Y3)
.. ' C' .. coords(x + 4*xd, y + amp * Y4)
.. ' ' .. coords(x + 5*xd, y + amp)
.. ' ' .. coords(x + 6*xd, y + amp)
.. ' C' .. coords(x + 7*xd, y + amp)
.. ' ' .. coords(x + 8*xd, y + amp * Y4)
.. ' ' .. coords(x + 9*xd, y + amp * Y3)
.. ' C' .. coords(x + 10*xd, y + amp * Y2)
.. ' ' .. coords(x + 11*xd, y + amp * Y1)
.. ' ' .. coords(x + 12*xd, y)
x = x + width / num_half_waves
amp = amp * -1 -- flip over vertically every half wave
end
return path
end
function coords (x, y)
return string.format('%g,%g', x, y)
end
local fh = assert(io.open("Harmonic_partials_on_strings.svg", "wb"))
fh:write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n' ..
'<svg version="1.0" width="', img_wd, '" height="', img_ht,
'" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">\n')
local y_origin = MARGIN + AMPLITUDE
local wave_labels, pick_circles = '', ''
for n = 1, NUM_WAVES do
local amp = AMPLITUDE - (n - 1) * AMPLITUDE * 0.1
fh:write(' <path', WAVE_STYLE, ' d="',
sine_wave_path(MARGIN, y_origin, WAVE_WIDTH, amp, n), ' ',
sine_wave_path(MARGIN, y_origin, WAVE_WIDTH, -amp, n),
'"/>\n')
if n > 1 then
local pick_x = MARGIN + WAVE_WIDTH / n
local pick_r = AMPLITUDE * 0.2
pick_circles = pick_circles .. ' <circle cx="' .. pick_x ..
'" cy="' .. y_origin + pick_r ..
'" r="' .. pick_r .. '"/>\n'
wave_labels = wave_labels .. ' <text x="' .. pick_x ..
'" y="' .. y_origin - FONT_SIZE + 2 * FONT_FUDGE ..
'">1/' .. n .. '</text>\n'
end
y_origin = y_origin + 2 * AMPLITUDE + GAP_BETWEEN_WAVES
end
fh:write(' <g stroke="#000" fill="#bbb">\n', pick_circles, ' </g>\n',
' <g font-family="Bitstream Vera Sans" font-size="', FONT_SIZE, 'px"',
' text-anchor="middle">\n',
' <text x="', MARGIN + FONT_FUDGE,
'" y="', MARGIN + AMPLITUDE - FONT_SIZE + 2 * FONT_FUDGE,
'">0</text>\n',
' <text x="', MARGIN + WAVE_WIDTH - FONT_FUDGE,
'" y="', MARGIN + AMPLITUDE - FONT_SIZE + 2 * FONT_FUDGE,
'">1</text>\n',
wave_labels,
' </g>\n',
'</svg>\n')
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