• Archive for December, 2007

    Challenges with dissertation printing

    by  • Monday 17 December 2007 • Research • 1 Comment

    Time has come for preparing my dissertation for official printing. Luckily, I had done most of the formatting when creating the manuscript for the committee, so I expected an easy process. It hasn’t been too bad, but some challenges have appeared: CMYK: There are several years since I last had to deal with professional printing, [...]

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    Mapping and conditioning

    by  • Tuesday 11 December 2007 • Research • 2 Comments

    The concept of “mapping” is frequently used in the computer music community these days, and has also been used over the last couple of days during the Jamoma workshop. This reminded me about the distinction between mapping and conditioning, as frequently pointed out by Marcelo Wanderley: Conditioning: filtering, scaling and normalizing signals in a 1-to-1 [...]

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    Coordinate systems

    by  • Tuesday 11 December 2007 • Research • 0 Comments

    I am updating the GDIF messaging in the jmod.mouse module in Jamoma. Trond suggested to use the OpenGL convention for ranges and coordinate systems, which should give something like this: This means that values on the vertical axis would fall between [-1 1], while values on the horizontal axis would be dependent on the size [...]

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    Jamoma Workshop in Brussels

    by  • Monday 10 December 2007 • Research • 0 Comments

    We have a Jamoma workshop in Brussels this week. Some of the major things we will be talking about, and working on, during these days is: FunctionLib: for handling various types of mathematical functions in a consistent manner. UnitLib: for converting between different types of units. Timing and structuring in modules and patches. Most of [...]

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