"Paolo Gibellini" <p.g### [at] teinoscom> wrote:
> Cool!
> How does your perl script work?
> ;-)
> Paolo

Well, the best way to see that would be to look at the script, itself, now
located on my web page. Here's a quick rundown:

1) Make use of code someone else wrote, in this case, the MIDI Perl module
written by Sean M. Burke, and available from CPAN.
2) Calculate note on-off events in terms of seconds, rather than the "ticks"
unit used in MIDI files.
3) Add enough bugs such that the calculation in step 2 is frustratingly
close to correct, but very slightly off.
4) Output note on-off events to a large POVRay include file with multiple
arrays, and arrays of arrays.
5) Write a handful of macros to parse these arrays to glean meaningful
information.
6) Fudge with the framerate/duration of the resulting animation such that
the bugs mentioned in step 3 are not a problem any more.

There you go. :-) Obviously, I don't really like steps 3/6, so if anyone
wants to take a look at it and recommend a fix for me, that would be great.
I may revisit it agian in the future if I get the motivation, but for now
I'm itching for a new project.

 - dan B hentschel

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