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™
TEMPUS-3D
The Time-Frequency-Amplitude
Microscope
Version 1.01
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Contents Description ........................................................................................................... 1 Computer Requirements ...................................................................................... 1 Installation ........................................................................................................... 1 Getting Started ..................................................................................................... 2 User Interface
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Tempus-3D Description Computer Requirements The world, as we know it through our The Tempus software is designed to run ® senses, is constantly changing. Unfortu- with Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 nately, the world that we measure through as its platform. You must have at least a 486 analysis is steady state. With few excep- chip, though it is recommended you run ® the program on a computer with a Pentium tions, the tools we use to analyze the world chip with MMX. With this software, the a
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Tempus-3D Getting Started text. The Status Bar notes the channel being displayed, the sampling rate of the signal Once the Tempus program is installed on being examined, and the octave used to your computer, the two portions of the analyze the signal. program need to be set up to run together. The Tempus program really consists of two Using TEMPUS programs; the TEMPUS portion does the Tempus uses the popular .WAV file as a analysis and the TEMPUS-3D portion does source of data. It allows the use
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Tempus-3D TEMPUS Commands • Play Inner—Plays the data in the dark- ened area of the analysis window (the data Most of the commands available in TEM- that will be presented in the graphical PUS are activated through buttons located display). at the bottom of each channel field, al- though some are found on the toolbar at the • Position Window—Just to the right of the top of the screen. Below is a list of the word “Tweak,” this window displays where, command buttons in the TEMPUS screen in the dur
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Tempus-3D mouse button. This program is most strik- Using TEMPUS-3D ing when you choose a portion of the signal TEMPUS-3D displays the data analyzed by that looks interesting. When you click on TEMPUS in full color and three dimen- the signal with the right mouse button, a 60 sions. The entire range of amplitudes millisecond portion of the screen is shaded present in the analyzed data is scaled along (if the sampling rate is above 32 KHz). The the full spectrum of color— the lowest analysis will
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Tempus-3D used in the TEMPUS-3D and a description refresh the screen. of what they do. • Reset—This button resets all three axes • Left mouse click plus “Shift” key moves to zero. the origin of the graph. • Surface/Wireframe—The object can be • Left mouse click on the graph window displayed as a complex surface or as a wireframe. Whichever one you are cur- near the object will draw a vertical line that represents the position of a “slice” graph rently using, the opposite name will appear that ca
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Tempus-3D • Page Up—Rotates on the z-axis ten de- 1. Once TEMPUS-3D has displayed the grees in the clockwise (negative) direction analysis in the form of a spectrogram, look for the axes. The frequency axis (z-axis) • Page Down—Rotates on the z-axis ten runs vertical along the screen, the time axis degrees in the counter clockwise (positive) (x-axis) runs horizontal, and the amplitude direction axis (y-axis) runs perpendicular to the screen (this is sometimes described as • Plus (+) key on the n
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Tempus-3D the analysis. If the file is not renamed it Analysis of Different Parts of the will be overwritten when the TEMPUS Sampled Data Set program is used to make an additional When a certain part of the data set has been analysis for that channel and that directory. analyzed and you want to make a change to Of course, if the file is lost, it is usually a look for different effects, such as a change fairly simple process to redo the analysis in the analysis bandwidth, minimize but and recreat
