http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org Brandon Perdue's Independent Study Blog Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:20:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've done a lot since the last time I posted.  The short version is that the visualization is up and running, all pretty and debugged.  The only problem is that I can't upload the music to go with it.  At first it was a problem with file extension (.wav is ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/04/21/the-last-week-of-classes/ I tried to get the visualization in testing shape for today, but the network wouldn't hear of it.  Last night I managed to get some work in, when the network would hold a connection for any reasonable length of time, but it took me longer to do things than it ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/04/14/the-week-with-the-more-than-usual-network-trouble/ Okay, quick update here. Not much to say yet, as usual. I've found some good, basic MIDIs to use. They're all pretty short and tunes that I think most everyone would know, so that should work out for the survey, methinks. I'll work up the precise ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/04/07/the-weekwith-stuff/ Okay, so I haven't actually gotten anything done since I posted last Wednesday, but the project is my only assignment to work on for the next few days, so I plan to spend at least 3 hours on the project by meeting time. Tomorrow (probably for roughly half my ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/03/31/the-week-of-april-fools/ Okay, 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 ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/03/24/one-week-in-march/ I've spent several more hours working on getting the visualization to interface with a file.  Unfortunately, some of that time was spent trying to get the MIDI to CSV converter to work - unsuccessfully.  For some reason, every time I try to run it on an MIDI file, the converter ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/03/19/this-week-part-2/ I haven't had a lot of time to work on my project the past week, but I've made some conceptual progress and I should be able to put in some hours between now and Wednesday's meeting. As noted last week, my latest obstacle is the fact that getting the visualization to ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/03/17/this-week/ Over the course of Spring Break I finished the structural aspects of the visualization, as well as much of the scripting for the visualization.  Here's some screenshots: As you can see, the "tracer prim" in the middle zips around inside the spiral array.  Points on the spiral array (specifically the spherical ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/03/10/the-week-after-spring-break/ http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/02/27/getting-somewhere/ Not much to report just yet; with Spring Break approaching, I've been kept busy with midterms, reports, and other major assignments, two of which are due tomorrow.  However, after that point I'm practically home free, and I fully intend to spend considerable time in SL tomorrow evening and Wednesday afternoon ... http://musicvisual.umwblogs.org/2008/02/25/weekwhatever-it-is/