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Soon after we arrived at the games, the first piping band of the day entered the grounds. Filmed at the Highland Games in Pitlochry, Scotland on Saturday September 11, 2010. www.pitlochryhighlandgames.co.uk/

A man competes in the caber toss. The aim of the caber toss is accuracy, not distance. From the games' website: "The competitor delivers his throw at 6 o'clock. He tosses the caber so that it lands in the centre of the dial. A perfect throw is one which goes straight over, with the light end landing at 12 o'clock precisely." The gunshot heard about 10 seconds in was to signal the start of a rac...

A crowd favorite. I had a little trouble seeing where the hammer landed when I filmed this but you can see where the boy picks it up at the end of the video. Filmed at the Highland Games in Pitlochry, Scotland on Saturday September 11, 2010. www.pitlochryhighlandgames.co.uk/

A competitor in the hammer toss takes one of his attempts. Filmed at the Highland Games in Pitlochry, Scotland on Saturday September 11, 2010. www.pitlochryhighlandgames.co.uk/

A small taste of the sounds of the day. Later in the day the bands were judged individually, but first they all entered the grounds in a long procession. I believe they were all playing different songs but in this clip you can mainly hear "Scotland the Brave". Filmed at the Highland Games in Pitlochry, Scotland on Saturday September 11, 2010. www.pitlochryhighlandgames.co.uk/

Filmed at the Highland Games in Pitlochry, Scotland on Saturday September 11, 2010.

Before using the diffusion distance to map each point to a new set of features, the distance or similarity matrix is filtered to emphasize peaks in similarity.

Brandenburg Concerto No.3 Allegro Diffusion Analysis 1

Using 12 mel frequency cepstral coefficients to represent each 50 milisecond frames of audio. Calculated self-similarity using windows of 4 frames. The first three subplots display a 3d scatter plot of the complete data set, in which display color is proportional to height to make it easier to perceive depth. The final subplot shows a convex hull surface fit to the data. Three views are shown, ...