Project Ideas and Resources

Useful for all

• There are some sprites (pictures with a single color background) that you can use for creating movies at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs1315/4004
• http://www.sampleswap.org/ Free sounds
• From Scott Vandenberg:
  • http://www.cs.siena.edu/~scott/instruments contains 8 notes played by each of 23 different instruments. There are 8 tones for each instrument, from C to C, but no sharps/flats. Each note is about a 6-second .wav file (easy to trim to desired length in Python, as I did at the workshop!). Total size of files is 186MB, so you can see why I didn’t email it to you. These were created by a colleague, who says they’re fair game for all to use.
  • MusicXML has some fun examples for which you can view the XML code, the “printed” score, and listen to the MP3 version. There’s probably a lot more to it that I haven’t used, but I’m just passing it along in case you’re interested and didn’t know about it.
• Session at SIGCSE2010 -- Variations on a Theme of Media Computation

Java

• Some materials reworked for grades 8-10 students are at http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au
• Cay Horstman has created some notes on doing image manipulations using Greenfoot at http://horstmann.com/notes/greenfoot-media.html
• Jennifer Murdoch has done CSI with Media Computation in Java http://webhome.cs.uvic.ca/~jmurdoch/edu/CSI/
• Dick Baldwin has created a series of somewhat advanced on-line tutorials starting with Lesson 340 at http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocadv.htm
• Andree Jacobson's MP3 reader

Python

• Doug Blank has done some cool image manipulations with a set of MRI images. See http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/brain/
• J. Ben Schafer's Anaglyph (Creating 3-d images for viewing through 3-d glasses): Anaglyph_demo.zip
• How to use JMusic from JES
• New Way of Rotating in MediaComp Python by Rich LeBlanc
• Speed up JES
• Movie Effect: Sprint Ahead
• Rhythm Collages
• Cartoon Collages
• Working with RSS Feeds
• Steganography
• How do I change JES for my institution?
• Final and Midterm Exam questions (review pages) from Georgia Tech's Python MediaComp Class
• CPython support for media computation can be found in Myro (images only) or here for both pictures and sounds
• Simon from University of Newcastle has provided Facebook Favorites Access

Data Structures

• A 35 minute movie (developed to take the place of the lecturer one day) on generalizing lists and trees from image and sound specific forms. (40Mb) Generalizing Lists and Trees.mov

Additional Media Tools

• Scaling Tool for Digital Pictures
• Web-based Audio Recorder
• Stand-alone simple audio recorder!Media Sources