https://github.com/dbkaplun/euclidean-rhythm

Euclidean rhythms in JS
https://github.com/dbkaplun/euclidean-rhythm

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Euclidean rhythms in JS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dbkaplun/euclidean-rhythm
• Owner: dbkaplun
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-11-12T00:05:43.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-01-16T01:49:50.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T15:31:39.836Z (26 days ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://dbkaplun.github.io/euclidean-rhythm/
• Size: 6.18 MB
• Stars: 58
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# [euclidean-rhythm](https://dbkaplun.github.io/euclidean-rhythm)

> The **Euclidean rhythm** in music was discovered by [Godfried Toussaint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfried_Toussaint)

> in 2004 and is described in a 2005 paper

> "The [Euclidean Algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm) Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms".[[1]](http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf)

> The [greatest common divisor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_common_divisor)

> of two numbers is used [rhythmically](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm)

> giving the number of [beats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(music)) and

> silences, generating almost all of the most important

> [World Music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Music) rhythms,[[2]](http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/rhythm-and-mathematics.html)

> (except [Indian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#Performing_arts)).[[3]](http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff-extended.pdf)

> The beats in the resulting rhythms are as equidistant as possible; the same

> results can be obtained from the [Bresenham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm) algorithm.

—[Wikipedia, *Euclidean rhythm*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_rhythm)

## Usage

```js

> var euclideanRhythm = require('euclidean-rhythm');

undefined

> euclideanRhythm(3, 8);

[ 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0 ]

```