[chuck-users] Importing Data/Using Quadraphonic Headphones with ChucK

[Scott Hewitt]

If the data is static another option is use to regex across the files
and import it in as variables not pretty put does work.


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On 23 June 2012 23:54, Jordan Orelli <jordanorelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> oh, wait, .m files.  Is the data being generated by Matlab?  I haven't tried
> it, but there's an OSC implementation for Matlab
> here: http://opensoundcontrol.org/implementation/matlab-osc
>
> Depending on how the data is generated, the simplest thing to do may be to
> just send OSC directly from Matlab to ChucK.
>
> -jordan
>
> On Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Jordan Orelli wrote:
>
> the documentation isn't the greatest when it comes to parsing data from
> files, but it is possible in ChucK.
>
> There are some examples on performing file i/o that you can read
> here: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/examples/io/
>
> There are some examples on performing string manipulations that you can read
> here:  http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/examples/string/
>
> The string examples aren't listed on the main examples page, but they can be
> found in the examples directory that comes with the language.  It's
> definitely worth your time to look through those examples and listen to
> them.
>
> Do you have some sample files that you could post somewhere to share with
> us?  It would be helpful to have a dozen or so data points just so we know
> what the format is.
>
> How big are your data sets?  I'm curious to know if they are small enough to
> fit in memory or if a streaming approach is required.
>
> If I was in your position, I would probably use some other programming
> language to handle the data itself, format it into OSC messages, and send it
> to ChucK through OSC, especially if the data sets are large and you can't
> fit them in memory.  Of course, most other programming languages don't give
> you the time guarantees that ChucK gives you, so I would probably have ChucK
> send an OSC message to request a data point, with some other process sending
> an OSC message back in response.  In that way, you could iterate over a
> large dataset without ever holding it in memory.
>
> As an aside, do you have any recommendations on quadraphonic headphones?
>
> Oh and, if you're just starting out with ChucK, make sure you have test
> headphones to test new code, and don't wear them when learning new features.
>  I blew out the cones in a pair of headphones by accidentally setting the
> pole position of a OnePole ugen to 0, so… be careful ;)
>
> -jordan
>
> On Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Hayden Dahmm wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> My name is Hayden, and I’m a blind student at Swarthmore College, where I
> intend to major in Environmental Engineering.  Over the summer, I’m working
> on learning ChucK so I can create auditory data displays.  I’ve made decent
> progress so far, but I do have a couple questions.
>
>
>
> I’m struggling to import data from cmv or .m files, forcing me to enter
> values in by hand.  Does anyone have suggestions as to how I could
> circumvent this problem?
>
>
>
> Also, I plan to use a pair of quadraphonic headphones to interrogate spatial
> data with a joystick or track pad.  Has anybody tried using ChucK for this
> purpose before?  If so, I would be very interested to hear your thoughts.
>
>
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Hayden
>
> hwdahmm at live.com
>
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