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Re: Duet in Lores
heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
Maybe a simpler version could be made with lo-res, using the
cassette port for input and assembler for speed.
Using tables with fixed locations and sizes for the rectangles
to the 8 bit input "spectrum" could create something similar.
The biggest rectangles would be perhaps 100-150 bytes large.
Two shades per color aren't the world but better than nothing.
The raster background would've to be dropped, naturally, but
the lower four text lines could display some important looking
numbers.
Doesn't Fire Organ have a sound input option? If it doesn't,
it should--it produces *much* more interesting "visualizations".
>ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/graphics/cue c06_fire
organ_ceemac.zip
(in case this gets broken, there's a space between "fire" and "organ".)
BTW, you don't really need to synchronize a sufficiently random
visual display with music for it to appear to be synchronized.
Your brain, ever seeking patterns where there are none, will
make the most amazing and subtle connections between any music
and a random display!
You have to try it to see the effect, which I observed many years
ago among people who watched a randomly changing color pattern
on a light box I designed.
It was actually just an excuse to post that video, which I had
seen about two weeks ago after reading an article about evil
computers in movies.
Virginia Madsen wrinkling her nose stuck with me, apparently ;-)
Thanks for posting it--I never saw Electric Dreams, so it was
brand new for me!
-michael
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