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GenJerDan wrote: I wrote a program that converts images into music
 You must be made of the same material of those people who once came to the idea of actually milking a cow and drinking the result. Seriously, images converted to music ?
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I've just recently finished re-reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency.
One of the main characters in that was a developer who had written software to display accounts as music, then anything else that could be converted to a waveform.
Most of his results were formless cacophonies too.
But, it seems like a decent idea to me.
It is trying to create synesthesia, converting what stimulates one sense into something that stimulates another.
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I've seen/heard some that go right to Wave from images, but didn't much like them.
I went the (ha ha) easier route. R/G/B -> 0-255 -> 0-127 = MIDI notes.
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Sure. Why not?
The program is actually being used by some university music profs in Italy and Romania, and one or two actual working musicians scattered around.
I don't have the exact figures, but I think I've made something on the order of 2 or 3 hundred dollars over the past 13 years.
Anyway, if you want to play, there's a demo version on my website (original, working, version) and, of course, my music on other pages there.
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If I remember rightly, one of the puzzles in the Perplex City game was a picture which, when put through a processor to convert pictures to sound, produced the right answer - personally, I couldn't make anything out of what I heard when I did it.
I'll try to remember to look it out tonight.
EDIT - or even a quick look now - here[^] - the solution will be towards the end.
Regards, Stewart
modified 29-Jan-13 10:28am.
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Try an image of Beethoven.
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GenJerDan wrote: But the UI is prettier. 
Heh, it reminds me one of the (in)famous develper excuses:
"Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?" 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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If you think your system produces crap music, have a look at this![^]
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If you think that produces crap music, have a look at this![^]
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... and if you think they produce crap music, have a look at this![^]
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Arggghhh! You win! You win!
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GenJerDan wrote: the original was Delphi
I'm sorry. 
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I'd blame instagram instead.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Just say the music it creates is experimental or avant-garde and you won't have to change a thing
There's even a 'music' genre called noise and the idea is for the listener to NOT have a pleasant listening experience.
Use mankinds weirdness in your favour here
It's an OO world.
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Wow, I just had a brilliant idea!
Let's also create a program to convert your generated music back into an image. That way you can transfer images through sound (and see the music).
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Well, it could be used to create an image. But it won't be the image.
The height/width isn't stored, and it doesn't use the entire pixel. And the map going the other way is ambiguous, i.e. is the note value of 112 representing a color value of 112 or 224?
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