"Wouldn’t it be cool if…"
We’ve all had that thought about something. How do you get from there to a product you can use and share with others? When I found myself playing with an idea that seemed exciting and new, I decided to capture some notes on the process, from the perspective of an Engineering Manager at a company that’s all about implementing people’s creative visions.
Last year, I posted here about an animation control framework called ‘Friz’ that works within the JUCE Application Framework.
As I said in that post:
Spectrogram of swelling trumpet sound
Art+Logic’s Incubator project has made a lot of progress. In a previous post I mentioned that Dr. Scott Hawley’s technique to classify audio involved converting audio to an image and using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to classify the audio based on this image. That image is a spectrogram. I’m going to go into some detail about what we do to create one, and why to the best of my ability.
Computers have been around for less than 100 years. In that short period of time, some incredible things have happened: they’ve been universally adopted so quickly that we have them in our houses. In our cars. Even in our pockets. In the last 40 years, there have been many significant events when it comes to computers:
Similarly to those past events, an important development in computer science which has the potential to significantly impact the way we develop applications is machine learning and artificial neural networks.
friz—a Flexible Animation Controller for JUCEAs is often the case, I found myself working on a personal project and had some UI elements that really wanted to have some life to them on the screen.
I tucked into the JUCE documentation expecting to see something that I could use to easily add some personality to the interface, and…didn’t find what I was looking for. There’s a ComponentAnimator class that supports moving a single component from one set of coordinates/bounds to another linearly, and also modify the component’s alpha value to have it fade in or out.
I was looking for something…more expressive.
