Vivi Introduction
I have a daughter now! Ok, by "daughter", I mean "a computer program which plays violin at approximately the level of a student with one year of experience". But hey, that's the closest that I'm...
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Artifastring 1.4 is now out (now including video output!), along with a heartwarming story: another person is working on this project! Welcome to Marcos Press ("tdy")!...
View ArticleVivi's first academic publication: SMC 2011
The first paper about Vivi was published in the Sound and Music Conference 2011. It is published under a Creative Commons license:
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I'm happy to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.14. LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally...
View Articleccbeamer 0.2
I found a nice set of Creative Commons logos for LaTeX, but they were used with \input {cc_beamer}. Following advice in a comment at that blog, I've turned them into a LaTeX package. Following the...
View ArticleArtifastring 1.6
Artifastring 1.6 is now out. This adds a fancier violin model, scripts to simplify creating images and video from an .actions file, and a switch to the autotools build system....
View ArticleBecoming social
Following xkcd #918, I have joined google+. What's google+? To paraphrase that brilliant webcomic, "it's like facebook, but it's not facebook".
View ArticleVampire Rabbit
The is the story of the Vampire Rabbit, and other bits and pieces from my European vacation from May 2 to 23. Yes, this is a bit overdue.
View ArticleUbuntu ssh agent admitted failure
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has a serious bug in ssh/ssh-agent/something which causes it to fail to log in to a system even if you have your ssh identies set up. This caused me an hour of panic before I found a...
View ArticleArtifastring 2.0
After over a year of development, I have released Artifastring 2.0. This includes higher-quality output, an incredible amount of optimizations (up to 100x realtime), and now has multiple distinct...
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