A new paradigm Bargar and Choi's work uses the SGI Indigo, which is best-suited to sonification problems because of its outstanding sound computation capabilities, according to Bargar. The SGI has a great graphics engine, the graphics pipeline. Through this pipeline, the Indigo does much of the graphical work for the user very quickly. That is both exciting and challenging. As we went to press with this issue, members of the Audio Development Group were putting the finishing touches on a software audio pipeline of their own design.
Numerical data converted directly into sound becomes qualitative.
We are not improvising or making up the data. We postulate that there are ways of interpreting data that are still unknown.