Re: dancing to sound! and torus rendering

>>>>> "artm" == Artem Baguinski <[email protected]> writes:

    artm> hello everybody i'm THE FRIEND gerald's talking about ;-)

>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald de Jong <[email protected]> writes:

    Gerald> unfortunately this is one thing i can't easily show you
    Gerald> guys, while at the same time it's really mindblowing to
    Gerald> watch.  a friend of mine here at V2 wrote an XMMS plugin
    Gerald> (XMMS is the WinAmp of Linux) which pumps VU-Meter data
    Gerald> into a unix queuing system, and i read that information
    Gerald> from there real-time.  the fabrics dance to the music!
    Gerald> people i demo it to are going WOW.  i'm especially
    Gerald> enjoying it with Philip Glass music.  any of you are
    Gerald> welcome to run this, but it'll take a Linux machine, so i
    Gerald> expect nobody's too interested.

    artm> i'm sure there's xmms for MacOS X and i'm sure MacOS X
    artm> supports the sort of queueing i used. I could write similar
    artm> iTunes plugin, if mr Stock would give me an account on his
    artm> mac in the lab ;-)

    artm> People who don't want technical details, click "Next unread
    artm> message" ;-)

    artm> to make it portable to DOS [where as far as i know there's
    artm> no such thing as FIFO] 
    
    i was wrong, there are FIFOs in windows... they are created in
    'virtual path' "\\.\pipe\"

    this means that i can port the plugin to winamp as well.
    
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gr{oe|ee}t{en|ings}
artm 



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