Rotating a Hendecagon on the Circle of Fifths
Rotating a hendecagon on the circle of fifths produces either the circle of fourths or circle of fifths, whichever is in the opposite direction of the rotation.
This visualization was written in Java using a graphical library called Processing (https://processing.org), and Java's built-in MIDI library for sound (package javax.sound.midi).
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