lossless
a quiet engineering shrine to the integer
fig. ii
R-2R ladder
Twelve resistors, longhand zig-zags, a single op-amp triangle. The integer recovered from binary weights — addition as truth.
A signal carries the trace of its medium. That trace is worth preserving rather than smoothing away.
— laboratory notes, undated
fig. iv
quartz, 22pF
A crystal between two load capacitors. The reference frequency from which all timing departs.
on integers
An integer is a covenant: the same value, exactly, when stored, when transmitted, when retrieved. We trade analog richness for arithmetic faith. lossless.dev attends to that trade.
fig. v
summing node
Two voltages, one virtual earth, the integer of their addition. No information discarded between branches.
Tiles 3, 5, 8 are deliberately misaligned by --ma-offset: 7px. The composition will rearrange once on scroll past 50% of this section, all tiles completing on the same frame.
Scroll draws the path. Reverse-scroll un-draws it. The user's velocity is the easing.
pure sine → soft saturator → 4-bit quantize → re-interpolate. fourteen seconds, one cycle, raised-cosine envelope.
- on the integer
- notes on quantization
- a defense of the comb filter
- the patina of preservation
- on lossless as a refusal
- the silent half-second
The essays themselves are not on this page. The index is the artifact.