A while back ago I purchased a used copy of “A First Course in Computational Physics and Object-Oriented Programming with C++” by David Yevick and I’m finally getting around to reading it. To follow along one needs to install DISLIN and GSL.
Note that not all of this is free (as in speech, although it is free as in beer), however, I wanted to set it up so that I could read the book.
First off, I was setting this up on my Debian box which uses “etch” and found that (due to licensing, I believe) libmotif3 was not to be found so I ended up enabling the “sarge” repository to get it.
Once everything was installed there’s a few other things to note:
- Setting your PATHS. You need to do something like
export DISLIN=dislin_directory
in my case that was
export DISLIN=/usr/local/dislin
then
PATH=${PATH}:${DISLIN}/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DISLIN:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- Write up your source code in your favorite editor and save it. In my case, let’s say it was myFile.cpp
- Run the following to compile and link it:
clink -cpp myFile
Note that the extension is left off.
Some interesting examples are in the examples directory and can be compiled with:
clink -a exa_c
Lastly, typing: disman will launch a manual.
Blip Festival 2007 was a total blast.
All of the performers were at their best - amazing.
It was great to be included in the line up of super visualists too which included: No Carrier, noteNdo, kiken.corporation, Otro and Neil Voss running the tile display.
The picture above was taken by “The Robot Diaries” and posted on the 8bitcollective site the screens on the right and left show some of my graphics using a gp2x and some software that I wrote for the set by Markus Schrodt. I had been listening to Markus’s “southpole beat” on loop for the week before Blip Festival - love the bassline and was happy he did this track live.
Just like last year, 2-Player Productions was there for the full 4 nights shooting video - it will be great to see what they captured (hopefully not too much of me going crazy during the set of Bodenständig 2000!
Big Respect and Thanks to Nullsleep, Bitshifter and Mike from the Tank for all of their hard work!
Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away last week.
To me, he was a great inspiration. I think that I first heard Stockhausen when I was a teenager or maybe younger. It was unlike anything that I ever heard before and opened my musical horizons. It was probably this that got me interested in electronic music. Electronics allow one to create and explore new musical worlds and this was more exciting to me than playing C, F, G over and over and over.
The picture above is an old one and I include it because I think it may be the first picture that I ever saw of him. I could tell from the picture that this is someone who I wanted to know more about. Over the years, I collected many of his works but I think what I enjoyed most was the interviews and lectures. Often I would read them when I needed inspiration and they always sparked ideas even if they were only tangential to what he was talking about - which I think is even better! It’s not necessary (or useful, or even possible) to be inspired to try to recreate what someone else has done - just getting the creative ideas going is enough.
He left a great body of work and I’m sure he will be remembered for many, many years.
The official website has a very nice collection of texts, interviews, and talks.
