I was recently reminded of an image that’s oddly relevant to a particular area of AI: inference from sparse data. It’s an area for which the current state of the art is rather depressing compared to what the media hype would have us believe about AI more broadly. For the record, I have no idea …
Here’s a web-compatible version of the Processing noodles that were the initial cause of my Algo-Jazz Series of algorithmically inspired jazz and associated visualizations. The particular sketch shown here was done last year, so I’m rather late posting it here. And yes, it’s extremely simple – no big algorithmic advances to be found here, just …
In order to play a MIDI controller through a virtual instrument and have it feel responsive, the total latency (delay) between key press and sound typically needs to be 10ms or less, which is to say below the threshold at which we can detect it with our ears. Sometimes you can get away with up …
It’s blue. It’s gears. And it’s moody. I recently needed a new desktop background for my laptop and wanted something industrial and blue. This is what happened. Of course, the desktop image I got from it is static, but it looks much cooler animated. Click it if you get tired of the gears you’re seeing …
I have a 23-year-old nandy conure called Binky. He has a remarkable capacity for understanding rules just well enough to find away around them. He regularly gets told “no” for being loud – but only when he’s loud with his voice. Playing with toys is ok and something I try to encourage. In fact, he’s …
Have an Android phone with a bunch of unused free disk space? Want to code Haskell on it? Don’t like the idea of rooting your phone and risking bricking it just to install a compiler? Are you filled with a bizarre desire to develop code on a tiny device with a tiny screen? Do you …
I was recently gifted a ROLI Lightpad M Block, which is programmable with a language called Littlefoot. You can control the display of 15×15 pixels and behavior for sending/receiving MIDI messages based on touch and/or time. There is a challenge though: your code size is capped to just a few KB and you only get …
Originally posted: 02-Sept-2018 Last modified: Update 23-Dec-2018: if you want to see where this project went and the compositions that have resulted, check out the Algo-Jazz Series. I recently became a bit more interested in how the bass behaves in various styles of music, and eventually ended up looking at walking bass lines. After messing …
When I’m too tired to do anything else useful, but not quite tired enough to sleep, I sometimes open up an image editing program like GIMP, load up some kind of geometric image, and then smash it to death with filters and other transformations until it either looks more interesting/appealing or so hideous that I …
Update 09-Nov-2017: the github version of this now includes the other features I listed as to-dos here along with writeNRT working (it just required a Windows-compatible version). More complex and infinite music values should behave just fine, and there is also support for different ways of handling the “R” part of ADSR envelopes. Tom Murphy …