Atlhack Prehistory
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