[linux-audio-user] graphics->sound

[Peter Lutek]

Cesare wrote:

> Florian Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:42:13 +0000
>> Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Hi Georg. Does that really work, or are we going into the realms of 
>>> sheer fantasy (Twilight zone) . Nigel. aka mekon, farpoint, and many 
>>> other sci-fi characters and places.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> well, it works only if you either
>>
>> a] have OSS drivers installed or
>>
>> b] have the ALSA OSS compat. module loaded..
>>
>> Nonetheless, here's an alsa version:
>>
>> cat foo.pdf | aplay
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> Have fun,
>> Flo
>>
>>  
>>
> It's annoying that you can't make a joke with linux users. They've 
> always an answer to show you that what you're joking about is not that 
> ridicolous (rather it is indeed possible).
> But Peter wanted to generate sound from an image.
>
> So my question  is:  how can he use this software to accomplish this 
> task if there's just the paper, and not yet the software?
>
but there IS software: http://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/~reuter/soundpaint/

sure the joke is funny, and i DID chuckle (a bit), but the cool thing is 
that we tend to take the absurd and say, "hmmm.... we could probably do 
something with that"!