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A tiny experimental "continuous-motion" Life glider I once made - an artistic take: https://bntr.planet.ee/lj/glider.gif


this is gorgeous! really illustrates the fundemental rules in a very aesthetically pleasing way


Exactly. Reversing the z-test is one way to get a reverse-perspective effect, but it doesn't allow for a smooth transition between projections (like dolly zoom).


For an extra dose of nausea, there's also a cross-eye stereo version: https://bntr.planet.ee/temp/rp/

(Alt + mouse wheel changes the eye distance)


That's so cool! I want more cross-eye content.


No performance hit - it's just a custom projection matrix. The rest of the rendering pipeline works exactly the same as with a normal camera.


Great visualization! It would be good to add some fog for a better perception of 3D.


Once I made a transition between two ditherings: https://github.com/bntre/dithering-gradient-py


That's a pretty neat effect, a smooth transition between ordered dithering and error diffusion.


Another notation showing the construction of the predecessor function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWzn2ucPMdg



My actual question: do you use xenharmlib for composing?

I assume this is your album: https://fabianvallon.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-path-for...

Was xenharmlib used in it, or some other software?


Yes, I do. For the actual score composition I used Ableton, but xenharmlib can export SCL files to define microtonal scales, which then can be imported in Ableton (a lot of other DAWs and VSTs support this format too).

For the most part however I use xenharmlib for theoretical aspects of music. I got interested in the "31 Equal Divisions per Octave" tuning a couple years ago, because of its psychoaccustic potentials, but thinking about chords, modes, notation in 31-EDO made my head hurt, so I built the library to help me think and answer my questions.


A bit tangential, but I recently made a xenharmonic-related library too - focused more on the visual/harmonic space side:

https://github.com/bntre/cs-rationals/blob/master/RationalsE...

Demo piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_x4vtS_I7w


Oh, neat :) This looks really cool. In one of the upcoming versions of xenharmlib I am planning to add hooks for visualization plugins, so structures can be rendered in JupyterLab. Maybe you would be interested in contributing, however it will take some time before JI is supported.


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