"VAXHeadroom" <emo### [at] untiedmusiccom> wrote:
> "dan B hentschel" <dan### [at] alumritedu> wrote:
> > Well, here's what I did with my Christmas vacation. I got to thinking that
> > it wouldn't be too difficult to parse a MIDI file into a POV .inc and then
> > use the note on-off events to synchronize an animation to the music. I
> > ended up using the technique to produce a background movie for the DVD menu
> > system I created for the Japanese Anime, "Piano". Here is a small portion
> > of that movie.
> >
> > I wrote a Perl script that takes a .mid file as an input, and creates a .inc
> > file as output. I have tried it with several different MIDI files with
> > varying success. Sometimes the timing is a bit off. Is it worth my time to
> > clean this up and make it available? Would anyone like to use it? For now,
> > I've gotten what I wanted from it. So if there's no interest, I'll probably
> > move on to another project.
> >
> > Let me know what you think!
> >
> >  - dan B hentschel
> >
> > Video is in DivX format. My apologies to those who are not able to see it.
>
> I'm sitting waiting for my daughter to get out of ballet class, and thought,
> hmmm, I've really wanted to be able to do an animation from MIDI - brief
> hunt
> on the internet and BINGO! ;)  And you basically just did it!  I'm going to
> try to re-write it into POV script and add handling for continuous
> controllers.
> I'll post it when I'm done!

Foo.  So now I know why you used something like Perl - no binary I/O in
PovScript.   Guess I need to learn perl :)

This is a really good start.  I'll try to find your timing error too.

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