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Remington Furman

Remington Furman is an embedded systems engineer with over 15 years of experience in firmware and hardware. He currently works on Software Defined Radios for the rail industry and has worked on underwater acoustic modems, RF soil moisture sensors, and industrial motor controllers.

He received a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington in 2008. He caught the DSP bug with low-cost SDR dongles in 2012 and holds an Extra Class amateur radio license.

Remington enjoys teaching and took a year-long break from engineering to build and maintain exhibits at the Pacific Science Center, where he fell in love with their mechanical tide computer.

His technical blog at https://remcycles.net/ contains posts about signal processing, numeric programming, and various software tools.

Sonifying the Tides

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The fascinating phenomenon of tides can be modeled and predicted relatively simply as a sum of sinusoids, with a different set of amplitudes and phases for each location. In this presentation I discuss tide prediction using mechanical and digital computers.

Tide predictions are typically plotted graphically, but they can also be sped up and converted to audible sound (a process called “sonification”) to provide a different perspective. I will discuss implementation details and play audio samples using harmonic constituent data from various NOAA tide stations.

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