Explore & Generate Music
You can use my innovative Fractal Tune Smithy music generator and microtonal composition tuning tool to do all of these things:
- Create music as intricate as snowflakes - effortlessly - vary the parameters for the fractal music, and just see what happens. more
Play: wind chimes
- Try out an incredible range of tunings designed for music from the great musical traditions of the world (Gamelan, Indian, African, Thai, Japanese,...), tunings from past times (Baroque, medieval etc), innovative tunings by modern scale designers, and musical geometries more
- Play in any tuning directly from your music keyboard choose your tuning from the huge range in the drop lists - and just play more
- Use your PC keyboard and mouse as musical instruments to play in any tuning - amongst its many options, includes a mouse "theremin" and your PC keyboard can turn into a musical "Janko style" hexagonal lattice explorer more
- Transcribe bird song or microtonal solo lines - to midi - and play the result
Play: Musician wren song on French Horn - on any instruments you like (ex. was shifted down in pitch and slowed down) more
- Play chord progressions in any tuning - paste or type any chord progression into the player and hear it immediately more
- Compose directly or retune your microtonal music compositions in other music notation software to any tuning you like more
- Use the metronome and polyrhythm metronome to practice any rhythms including compound rhythm, complex polyrhythms (such as you get in African drumming for instance) and long bars (hypermeasures) more
- Use the Lambdoma matrix for music therapy - this is a tonal matrix that dates back to Pythagorous, updated for use for music therapy in our time by Barbara Hero. more
- Many other features
Explore & Generate 3D Art
With my Lissajous 3D and Virtual Flower shape generators, you can:
- Create relaxing Lissajous 3D animations
- Play your animations as a screen saver more
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Create virtual plants and flowers.
(still frame - spins around)
You can make them into models for Virtual Worlds, images, or short animations. more
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Make star spheres that swirl and colaesce into a geometrical shape like this:
(stills from animation)
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- Explore virtual models of varous geometrical shapes
and make new ones more
- Explore musical geometries
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- Make coloured anaglyph flowers and shapes
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- Explore higher dimensions of space
Spin this hypercube through the fourth dimension, and watch its cube faces deform and swap position as it turns. Can you develop an intution of higher dimensional space??
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Plus a techy program to make new viewpoints for VRML enthusiasts.
Utilities
With these utilities, you can:
- with Activity Timer
- with Text Echo
- do an advanced search and replace throughout all the files in a folder and its subfolders more
- Echo small text fields in web pages in a larger area or larger font for easier editing more
- Innovative wild words search and replace more
- Make redirect pages for an entire web site in one go more
- Spell check using the Aspell spell checker more
Source Code
Here you can find:
- MemLeakCheck library for automatically checking for memory leaks more
- PlayMidi lib library to help you to make microtonal retuning software more
- an extension of the OpenGL 3D extrustion library gle, more
- my port of Ming to Windows which you can use to add capabilities to your program to save 3D flash animations like the ones created by Virtual Flower (not the current version of Win Ming though) more
- Make MSVC 6.0, and legacy Windows C-code, year 2038 compliant more
- Monitor events from a Com Port more
- One fairly quick way to reduce colour depth to 256 colours more
- various other things that I make available from time to time.
