another Harmonic Melodic Diagram

harmel

harmel2.eps : another Harmonic Melodic Diagram -- this example shows 8-tone harmonic scale repeated 3 octaves, with all links of length 1, with label ratios reduced to 1 octave.

The lines changed in the original file to get the variation are shown below, with the changes shown in red type.

Changes

% WINDOW LIMITS, your coordinate system
% left x, bottom y, right x, top y: (set big enough to fit whole diagram)
-0.1 -0.5 1.9 1.5

% this example shows 8-tone harmonic scale repeated 3 octaves,
% with all links of length 1.
/primes [ 3 5 7 11 13 ] def
/xcoords [ 0.811 0.947 0.590 0.888 0.714 ] def
/scl [ 
1 1  9 8  5 4  11 8  3 2  13 8  7 4  15 8
 ] def
/nocts 3 def    % number of octave repeats
/botoct -1 def   % start at lowest that will show
/dovert true def  % connect octave repeats

/faderest 0 def     % do 1 in black, others in this gray (0 if all black)
/octequiv true def   % label ratios reduced to 1 octave

/offsets [ ] def  %label offsets

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last updated 1999 Aug 7

David Canright -- DCanright@NPS.edu