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JS Bach (IMHO, the first true 'music hacker'), placed his 'sig' in many of his pieces of music - in German notation, 'H' is 'B' and 'B' is a B-flat, so Bb A C B = B A C H. Here's my attempt at a tribute...
@n=
map{[($_
>4&&$_<14
&&$_%2?'-':
' ')x 56]}(
0..16 );
l($_ ,5
,8) for
(32 ,55
,56 );p
(5 ,2,
13 ,'X')
; d(1,5,
"XXX");d(
16,3,"XXX"
);n(20,9);
n(27,10);n
(37,8);n(45
,9);for $k
(6,10){l(14 ,
$k,2);for(0 ,
1){c($k+$_ ,
13-$_,"/") ;c
($k+1,13 +(
2*$_),"_" )}}c(int
(2*cos ($_*0.39)+11),
int(4* sin($_*0.39)+4),
"X")for (-5..8);l(17,8,1);c(
9,18, ')');c( $_ ,9-$_,"X")
for (2..9); sub p{c($_,
$_[0] ,$_[3]) for ($_[1]
.. $_[1] + $_[2])
;} sub d{ $x=
$_[1] ; c( $_[0]
,$x++ ,$_ )for
split(//,$_[2]);} sub l
{p(@_,"|");} sub n
{($x
,$y)=
@_;l
($x,
$y+1
,3);
d($y, $x,
"(_)");c ($y
-1,$x-2,"_" );
}sub c{$n[ $_[0]
][$_[1]]= $_[2]
;}print join ("\n",
map{join("",@$_)}
@n),"\n";
Cheers, Ben.
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Re: Just another Bach Hacker
by halley (Prior) on Sep 08, 2003 at 14:32 UTC |
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Re: Just another Bach Hacker
by davido (Chancellor) on Sep 08, 2003 at 17:51 UTC |
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Re: Just another Bach Hacker
by wufnik (Friar) on Sep 08, 2003 at 20:48 UTC |
correct down to the treble clef winding around g, hearty congrats.
concrete scripting like the above beats any miserable offering from damien hirst etc imho. someone should produce a gallery of them.
...wufnik. | [reply] |
Re: Just another Bach Hacker
by jest (Pilgrim) on Sep 09, 2003 at 01:09 UTC |
My god, how do you people do this?
I always imagine, "One day I'll write my own JAPH," and
then walk in here and see something like this. It's really amazing.
++benn for giving me something to shoot for.
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Re: Just another Bach Hacker
by chanio (Priest) on Sep 09, 2003 at 03:20 UTC |
Can someone tell me how is this done?
Not by hand, I suppose.
I always loved those pictures made of characters that do the different shades and are weighted by the surface of black that they occupy.
They must use some sort of 'mask'. To addapt those characters to some areas of a picture . Something interesting to learn, don't you think?
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Not by hand, I suppose.
Actually, this one was all done by hand (as opposed to Just Another Larry, where I freely admit to using a tool to get my initial picture :)). I *looked* at some generated-ASCII-art as a starting point for the formatting, but with something like this (where, as halley says, the code is using compulsory whitespace etc.) it's near-impossible to automate. You just have to fiddle around until it fits. If you look carefully, you'll see there's lots of 'cheating' going on - the '+' sign in the middle of the downstroke for instance (where I would have loved to have been able to stick another 'sub' or 'for'), or the 'print join' in the tail...an automatic version would presumably have found a better 'fit'.
Glad you liked it,
Ben.
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Ok now i want to learn how to do this stuff.
Is there a tutorial somewhere in which i can learn some basics and get a hang of how to think in this direction
If there isn't ,why dont one of you gurus write one :)
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Nice obfu! If you peer at the Snowflakes section of
Acme::EyeDrops
there's an example of how you can make composing
these type of obfus a little bit less tedious, though
it usually requires quite a bit of manual adjustment, unfortunately.
/me scribbles note to add a similar shape to next release of A::E.
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Re: Just another Bach Hacker
by Roger (Parson) on Sep 09, 2003 at 04:12 UTC |
Certainly a masterpiece, one of a kind! Great work! | [reply] |
Re: Just another Bach Hacker
by sweetblood (Vicar) on Sep 10, 2003 at 15:21 UTC |
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Re: Just another Bach Hacker
by Notromda (Pilgrim) on Sep 10, 2003 at 17:49 UTC |
Great JAPH, but I don't understand what you mean by "in German notation, 'H' is 'B' and 'B' is a B-flat". | [reply] |
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In a German orchestral score, "Klarinetten in B" would mean "Clarinets in Bb', whereas "Pauken in H" would be "Timpani in B". Don't ask me why (I must research it some day), but it's been like that for hundreds of years, and has caught me (and many others) out before now, necessitating a swift retune after playing the 1st note :)
Cheers, Ben.
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I think here is the "why," fairly clearly written in the first two paragraphs of the message ... thanks to Bear Woodson of the "Horn" group from yahoo groups.
>Yes, the Note "H" evolved out of the Medieval
>German Note of "H" or rather a "Hard B", or now
>called "B Natural". Our Modern "Flat" Sign evolved
>out of a "Soft B" or "Bb". In Modern German, "B"
>equals the note "Bb", and "H" means "B-Natural".
>From this evolved the Musical Motive "B, A, C,
>H", or rather "B-Flat, A, C, B-Natural", which even
>Johann Sebastian Bach used in a keyboard fugue,
>that he never finished.
Here is the link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/horn/message/4632
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Wow... I have some experience in music, but I had never heard that.
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