Post by meeno8 on Jun 7, 2022 10:03:06 GMT -6
Some may find this subject interesting in addition to CV.
Originally I took a class in programming in 1974 for the purpose of analyzing overtone series of different musical keys. It is a simple matter to modulate from closely related keys to others, for instance C major to F major (the major 4th) or G major (the major 5th). But to modulate to a distant key basically distantly related to C major, like F# major, would be too hard on the ear. So my project was to programmatically analyze the overtone series of all keys to find the common overtones for distantly related keys, in order to trick the ear with computer generated compositions. My professor, the late Herbert Brun, who addressed the United Nations in 1971 on the role of the composer in society, was one of the first pioneers of computer generated music. He wrote the code for me for that project. But enough about me and my late music composition professor.
There were some interesting presentations in years past that I attended at the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) https://www.acm.org. One was by the guy who was hired by Roddenberry to produce one of the first CGI of the Starship Enterprise for a film. After paying millions of dollars, Gene said although it was very impressive, they were going to continue to use the little plastic model of the spaceship for filming. Anyways, his presentation was about computer simulations. With one that simulated coastlines, after the program ran overnight, in the morning on the screen was an image that closely resembled the shape of New Zealand. He was working on a simulation of life, and describing how the AI life forms generated behaved like actual species in the natural world, mutating and struggling for territory between each other.
Another fascinating presentation was by a guy who had government funding for tiny nanobots, and insect swarms were being modelled for a single microscopic robot to control a whole swarm of them. One potential application was using that technology to clean plaque in someone's arteries without surgical intervention.
Originally I took a class in programming in 1974 for the purpose of analyzing overtone series of different musical keys. It is a simple matter to modulate from closely related keys to others, for instance C major to F major (the major 4th) or G major (the major 5th). But to modulate to a distant key basically distantly related to C major, like F# major, would be too hard on the ear. So my project was to programmatically analyze the overtone series of all keys to find the common overtones for distantly related keys, in order to trick the ear with computer generated compositions. My professor, the late Herbert Brun, who addressed the United Nations in 1971 on the role of the composer in society, was one of the first pioneers of computer generated music. He wrote the code for me for that project. But enough about me and my late music composition professor.
There were some interesting presentations in years past that I attended at the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) https://www.acm.org. One was by the guy who was hired by Roddenberry to produce one of the first CGI of the Starship Enterprise for a film. After paying millions of dollars, Gene said although it was very impressive, they were going to continue to use the little plastic model of the spaceship for filming. Anyways, his presentation was about computer simulations. With one that simulated coastlines, after the program ran overnight, in the morning on the screen was an image that closely resembled the shape of New Zealand. He was working on a simulation of life, and describing how the AI life forms generated behaved like actual species in the natural world, mutating and struggling for territory between each other.
Another fascinating presentation was by a guy who had government funding for tiny nanobots, and insect swarms were being modelled for a single microscopic robot to control a whole swarm of them. One potential application was using that technology to clean plaque in someone's arteries without surgical intervention.