Not sure if these were the first formal meetings, but there were a few summer meetings at Graham’s house.
Friday 18 Mar 2005 (vinny’s notes)
– Last hackday
– Graham
– Basic direct sound functionality – loading, playing
– Loaded MP3’s and played them
– Vinny
– Managed to do nothing.
– BEEP has no complete implementation in .Net
– I’ve decided to use Java
– I want to make a prodcedural game
– Today’s Plans
– Graham
– basic decoding in Bass
– Vinny
– Finally make a BEEP app, in Java this time
– Do it in eclilpse
– Brainstorm game ideas
– Today’s Reality
– Graham
– Managed to decode a whole MP3 and rewrite to raw PCM, load in editor
– Works grrrrrreat!
– No FFT analysis yet
– Vinny
– Configured eclipse
– learned about the workspace, and projects
– played with the visual editor for 2 seconds, before
it crashed
– created a project called BeepMe, for chatting
– imported beepcore Jars
– Pirated a beep sample code to do something
– runs a server – does the slowest ping ever.
– General Ideas
– We’re going to take hackday notes
– we want our server!
– running social networking goodies
– be a place to leave notes, code
– we need a domain… looking for ideas. hackatl?
atl-hack?
Friday, 20 May 2005
– Since Last Hackday
– Graham
– Vinny
– Gotten bounce to work
– Currently bouncing on 3d needs 2d sqare
– ODE works great
– Today’s Plans
– Graham
– Auditory Masking
– GUI – plugging segmentation algo w/ sequence editing
interface
– Stephen
– Has a prime number generator in "Processing" (java subset)
– speed optimization and graphic scaling – run forever
– Joel
– Max/MSP
– Patch takes the difference of sequential notes
– attempting a call and response behavior
– Integrating two keyboards and creating harmony
– "Well tempered scale, here I come!"
– Creating a continuous (vs discrete) music theory
– Grant
– The return of spoon tease!
– A procedural world, a la the demo scene
– the end result – a Primer (Stephenson) or game (Scott
Card)
– Joel says: "Schrödinger’s spoon"
– Vinny
– Hacking MIDI into windowed electropaint
– Today’s Reality
– Listened to 4 WHOLE EPISODES of Coverville. It r0x0rs. So
does Rodeohead
– Graham
– Did a little temporal masking
– No success with acoustic / instantaneous masking
– Stephen
– It scrolls!
– and runs! continuously!
– Grant
– Laptop isn’t dealing with opengl, fell back on 2d spoon
tease generation
– Vinny
– Struggled to get electrpaint in a widnow, no success yet
– Didn’t touch MIDI
– Joel
– Got inconstant results from Max/MSP
– Learned oodles of Max shortcuts
Friday, 8 July 2005
atlhack.org is up in a rudimentry fashion. I’m waiting on a public IP
from my ISP for a full rollout, but I have a stub page up. Send me a
link and a picture if you want to be added to it, or if you want me to
change what I have up there.
– Vinny