:: Thursday, December 10, 2009 ::
Colo[u]rs of Noise
I came across the term “green noise” recently. White, Pink and Brown(ian) noise have strict mathematical definitions that I am well aware of, but there's a whole spectrum of other definitions out there, some more flexible than others. The wikipedia page is worth a read.
For example:
- Blue noise seems to be a term used in graphics dithering,
- A-weighted pink noise becomes Grey noise.
- Bands of zero energy are centered about the frequencies of musical notes in whatever scale is of interest. Since all in-tune musical notes are eliminated, the remaining spectrum could be said to consist of sour, citrus, or "Orange" notes.
- "Green noise is supposedly the background noise of the world. A really long term power spectrum averaged over several outdoor sites. Rather like pink noise with a hump added around 500 Hz."
I want to hear me some orange noise. This green noise definition is interesting. I would have expected it to more closely resemble traffic noise (see fig below), but maybe that's because I live in a city. I’m going to look into this more as I survey noise levels all over the place anyway.
Normalized road traffic noise spectrum figure, from BS8233:1999Labels: Acoustics, Maths
:: Dan 10.12.09 [Arc]
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