We’ve been making some progress in our scripting efforts with the Nyquist plug-in for Audacity. Though we’re easily confused by the syntax and explanations in the Nyquist manual, we get magical help when SamR comes to look at the code. Computers may indeed be stupid, sentient, and malicious, but at least they’re terrified of SamR … Continue reading »
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Translations of a different kind
Today, I’ve been facing the occasionally frustrating task of translating old student projects into language that is compatible with the latest implementation of MediaScript. Every semester, the CSC 151 class is assigned a final project: design a procedure, (image-series n width height), that produces an image of width and height based on n. Every image … Continue reading »
Updates for Nyquist
So, after a week of trying to make sense of the Nyquist Reference Manual and some attempts at scripting that were mostly guesswork, Jordan and I realized that there is one big problem with our current approach to Nyquist: this extension is used primarily by profession sound designers who script for ease, not for scripters … Continue reading »
Frustrations with PyGIMP
I’d like to complain for a few seconds if you’re up to listening to my rants. In my exploration of the Programming Language Python, especially how it is already implemented in GIMP, I’ve come across one of the most irritating “features” I’ve had to deal with as a computer scientist. Currently there are two ways … Continue reading »
Making the switch to color
One of my favorite aspects of scripting GIMP is the flexibility it offers when I’m playing with image models and want to make one or two changes and then see the difference. Case in point: modeling the ‘recgons’ that I’ve been working on. These past few days, I’ve been experimenting with putting a little color … Continue reading »
