| Case Western Reserve University | ||||||
| Ongoing | Prof. George Nagy (RPI) - Handwriting recognition Prof. Venu Govindaraju (SUNY Buffalo) - Genetic algorithms for handwriting recognition | |||||
| Sonnet+Imager: The Computer Music Center is collaborating with Case Western Reserve University on a project to develop tools for creating new "visual instruments" -- instruments that allow one to "play" graphics in the way that a musician plays sounds. We place particular emphasis on the creation of systems within which music and visuals interact in artistically meaningful ways. For more information on the emerging medium of "visual music", including background on its surprisingly-long history. The thrust of this collaboration is to develop computer-based tools that allow visual artists to create visual instruments and use them to create works of dynamic visual art. To that end, the project has resulted in a novel architecture for specifying and manipulating "visual rhythms", with an implementation in C++ classes. To facilitate experimentation and artistic exploration, we have exposed the functionality through Sonnet, an interactive visual programming language also developed at the Computer Music Center. Our ongoing work will refine and extend the concepts and the implementation based on the use of the tools in the creation of several new visual compositions. Specifically, we expect to add new artistically-oriented user interfaces, support for new types of visuals (e.g. fractals and ambient forms), and develop better paradigms for manipulating visual rhythms, and dealing with larger compositional structures. | ||||||