another Scale Slide-Rule

scale

scale2.eps : another Scale Slide-Rule -- this example compares 16-tone harmonic scale to 22-tet, with labels on the 22-tet dotted lines and without the vertical cut & fold lines.

Changes

The lines changed in the original file to get the variation are shown below, with the changes shown in red type.
/tuning [ 
% tuning is array of ratios as pairs of integers: num den
% (does not need to be in pitch order)
1 1  9 8  5 4  11 8  3 2  13 8  7 4  15 8
17 16  19 16  21 16  23 16  25 16  27 16  29 16  31 16
2 1
]  def

/temper 
% choose equal temperament (use 0 for none) for comparison (shown dotted)
22 
def  

/temperlabels 
% choose whether to label temperament lines by number (true/false)
true 
def

/doverts 
% choose whether to include vertical lines for cut & folds (true/false)
false
def  

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last updated 2000 Feb 6

David Canright -- DCanright@NPS.edu