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  • BAMZ!! finished.

    On a related note, I also wrote the program which generated the shiny 3d-looking text, but I didn't write that one just now; in fact, I originally wrote it for the purpose of making the text at the bottom of csrp2.org.
    Yes, in fact I just decided to change the background image.

    Actually, I've worked out all the bugs in the rendering engine. Now I'm just tweaking the dimensions, opacity, and refractive index of the wedge of cheese, as well as the placement and scaling of the background.
    Xih2O.png


    getting closer...
    So, the program is supposed to take this image:
    lXrhX.jpg


    and put a 3d translucent wedge of cheese in front of it. On the first few attempts, it went into infinite loop. The first attempt that actually completed, produced this output:
    3wnEh.png


    Could have been worse, as the shifted section is roughly wedge shaped :p.
    Will look over your piece once I finish this avatar making program. It may take a while; I'm writing a Java program to simulate refraction of light in 3 dimensions, and it's straining my brain.
    Sheet music is actually preferable. My brain pretty much is a music player, with the advantage that ff/rew to a specific point is much easier ;).
    Yeah, I joined the forums shortly after the end of my Sophomore year in high school.

    Show some of these non-abomination melodies?

    And you didn't answer 'boot the user title :(

    edit: Also, kudos for being (I think) a bit more mature than I was at that age. Though to be fair, that's not a very difficult thing...
    Alsoalso, I was just reading random shit people have written on my profile, and discovered...
    Lace said:
    A girl's finger got ripped off today in school.
    furthermore, if g(x) = f(x) - f'''(x), how can I define f(x) in terms of g(x)?
    ...and was amused by the word "furthermore" because it makes it sound like the two things are related. I also remember responding to the maths, hitting post, and then hastily going back and editing in an emotional response to the finger rippage, to avoid coming off as a heartless math machine :p.
    I would also like to express my jubilation at the fact that the number of days since your birth and the number of leap years since your birth have the same mod 365 value.
    Tually, I just looked back at the song. I'm guessing you were smart enough to realize that tracks 2, 3, 4, and 5 (or 1, 2, 3, and 4 if you still use 1.34) are pretty much the "chord tracks" in that they contain pretty much just the chords with very little melodic embellishment. These tracks also have a lot fewer NCTs than the other tracks. This is partly why I chose ToT as the song to start analyzing, since not all songs have a set of tracks which serve exclusively as chord tracks. You may have been thrown off by the fact that, in measure 29, rather than sustaining the same note through the whole measure, the chord tracks change pitch on beats 3 and 4. A change in pitch doesn't necessarily imply a change in chord, and, in fact, the chord tracks don't change chord at all in measure 29, and don't even have any NCTs. Each of the three different sets of pitches are really the same chord with the notes in different arrangements.

    A couple rules of thumb:

    Most pieces of music have a fairly consistent harmonic rhythm. In other words, there isn't usually much variation in the amount of time between chord changes. The longest held chords are rarely held more than 4x as long as the shortest held chords. In ToT, for example, the duration of a chord ranges from .5 to 2 measures. When doing harmonic analysis, it is usually preferable to analyze very short chords, even if they are full chords, as NCTs.

    Also, if you're unable to tell what a chord is by looking at the notes (maybe there are so many notes, you can't tell which ones are CTs and which are NCTs), the ears may be a better judge than the eyes. List multiple possible chord progressions, play each of them on the piano, and listen for which one most closely resembles the piece you're analyzing. If you don't have a piano handy, you can use some computer software (i.e. FL Studio, Psycle, pxtone) that allows you to treat the computer keyboard like a piano keyboard.
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