Oscilloscope Game Terrain

The hills and valleys of your favorite song, visualized by oscilloscope , might work well as the terrain of a computer game (preferably a two-dimensional side-scrolling one).

In order for the hills and mountains to work if your tank battalions are only rated to 20 degree unpaved inclines, you would have to stretch out the song significantly. a two-minute song might easily make an epic, twenty-mile map, depending on your scale. The smaller spikes (usually percussion instruments that go "pshhh") could be translated into pine trees of varying sizes. Some songs have square-looking oscilloscope readouts, so those could be city levels, although that's a stretch.

A song with certain characteristics (instrumentation, key, rhythm) would produce a huge map with distinctive traits. Thus, when selecting a map generation seed, a player could pick a song of a certain type.

The system could create three-dimensional maps by averaging through a grid of two-dimensional maps and then possibly using a smoothing feature after first mapping the areas of high tree density.

The levels would have clear patterns (unlike most random number generators, if that's how you generate your terrain) that might appear more realistic. If the game were military-based, you could name your battles after the song, or worse, play the song while you use the map!