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.% 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
last updated 1999 Aug 7
David Canright -- DCanright@NPS.edu