{"id":515,"date":"2008-07-05T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2008-05-23T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T23:44:17","slug":"screen-aspect-ratios-as-musical-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/screen-aspect-ratios-as-musical-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen aspect ratios as musical notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aspect ratios of televisions and computer monitors tend to be ratios of small integers. On my desk right now I have 3 monitors that are 4:3 and one that is 8:5.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing involving ratios of small integers is musical intervals in Just Intonation.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>C<\/td>\n<td>1:1<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>C#<\/td>\n<td>16:15<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>D<\/td>\n<td>9:8<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>D#<\/td>\n<td>6:5<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>E<\/td>\n<td>5:4<\/td>\n<td>5:4 monitors exist but are not common<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>F<\/td>\n<td>4:3<\/td>\n<td>the most common non-widescreen aspect ratio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>G<\/td>\n<td>3:2<\/td>\n<td>3:2 monitors exist but are not common<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>G#<\/td>\n<td>8:5<\/td>\n<td>the most common computer widescreen format<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A<\/td>\n<td>5:3<\/td>\n<td>5:3 monitors exist but are not common<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A#<\/td>\n<td>16:9<\/td>\n<td>HDTV format<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>B<\/td>\n<td>15:8<\/td>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspect ratios of televisions and computer monitors tend to be ratios of small integers. On my desk right now I have 3 monitors that are 4:3 and one that is 8:5. Another thing involving ratios of small integers is musical intervals in Just Intonation. C 1:1 C# 16:15 D 9:8 D# 6:5 E 5:4 5:4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}