One Week in March March 24, 2008
Posted by bperdue in : Uncategorized , trackbackOkay, so once again I haven’t made a lot of progress since the Wednesday meeting. Lately it seems like my work time on the project has shifted from Sunday/Monday to Tuesday/Wednesday. That being said, I expect to have more to show by the time we have the meeting.
For now, I’ve been toying with the visualization code in Second Life and perusing the thesis which created this visualization in the first place (I found a PDF of it online). I feel like I’ve got a better handle on what I’m looking at now. The last major coding thing to do - and this is more tedious than difficult - is to get the tracer all set to go to the appropriate location in the visualization for each of the twelve pitches it may get out of an MIDI. Eight of them are pretty obvious, and the other ones I just need to plot. I’m debating whether I should hard-code the locations (i.e. in a switch or if) or have the tracer calculate it based upon sensor data (which would facilitate moving the visualization). The latter is the more appropriate option in terms of style, but it would increase runtime in what I would call a relatively time-sensitive code block.
More later…
Approx. time worked: 1.5 hrs thus far.
EDIT: I’ve spent a couple of hours working on code (when I could; the connection was a bit erratic). I’ve yet to actually test run the code, unfortunately, because I’ve been fine-tuning certain bits to run better, especially the older stuff I coded solely to test the motion of the tracer back during Spring Break. I’m nearly ready to go, though; just a few more tweaks and I won’t have to wonder anymore about how horrible the crash will be when I actually try to feed the program a CSV file!
Updated time worked (total this week): 3.5 hrs.
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