I had this idea for an app or maybe even a piece of hardware that allows us to visualize radio waves all around us. Imagine living in a city where at any given moment, there are thousands of radio waves traveling past you, through you, and bouncing off buildings. It would be fascinating to see this magnetic field represented by colors and shades, and watch these signals radiate and bounce around. Is there anything like this out there right now?
I don’t think this is as easy as you might think. I’ve seen some attempts to do something similar, like a camera that can see WiFi. The issue is that these signals don’t bounce off things like light does; they can go through walls and stuff. Plus, your phone doesn’t have a directional antenna, so how would you figure out where the signal is coming from?
That’s a good point. I guess I didn’t think about how different radio waves are from light. But I still think it would be cool to find a way to visualize it.
Check this out: there’s a link about cellular network visualization that might be related to what you’re thinking. It’s pretty interesting.
Awesome, I’ll definitely look into that. Thanks for sharing!
Honestly, I think it might look a bit overwhelming with colors everywhere if you could see all the waves at once. It could be a lot to take in.
Yeah, that’s true. I guess there would need to be some kind of filtering or way to manage all that data visually.
Also, keep in mind that different signals have different frequencies, so how would you represent that visually without it getting chaotic?
Maybe they could use shades or different patterns to make it easier to understand without it being a mess.
I think that could work. Having different patterns or shades could help differentiate between the types of signals.
Right? I feel like that would make it way more digestible than just a bunch of colors overlapping.