{"id":169,"date":"2016-03-04T12:13:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2016-03-04T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:23:46","slug":"a-gui-front-end-for-cellular-automata-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/04\/a-gui-front-end-for-cellular-automata-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"A GUI Front-end for Cellular Automata Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post<\/a>, I explained how we can use Cellular Automata (CA) in Opusmodus<\/a>\u00a0to create music.<\/p>\n

For today\u2019s post, I wanted to build a simple UI to control the parameters used in the CA example. This posed a practical difficulty. Opusmodus does not yet provide a GUI library. Even Clozure CL, on which Opusmodus is based, does not seem to have an official and fully supported GUI library. I could, of course, build a separate GUI app in Swift using XCode, or implement one using Allegro CL<\/a> on Mac and have the app talk to Opusmodus using TCP\/IP.<\/p>\n

I then remembered my RAD Studio 10 Seattle<\/a>, and decided to use its multi-platform application capability to build the GUI driver app for OS X. It took me a few hours to build the GUI app in C++ and to refactor the Lisp code to accept parameters from the GUI app and then generate the music score.<\/p>\n

Note that both the apps are running on my iMac, talking to each other via TCP\/IP.<\/p>\n

The following figure shows the GUI app with its various controls.<\/p>\n

\"Opusmodus<\/a>
Opusmodus GUI Driver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clicking the Play<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0button after setting the required parameters causes Opusmodus to create and play the score. Clicking Quit<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0terminates the interaction and closes the GUI application.<\/p>\n

Here is the screen image of the Opusmodus program.<\/p>\n

\"CA<\/a>
CA Music Generator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can download the program from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I explained how we can use Cellular Automata (CA) in Opusmodus\u00a0to create music. For today\u2019s post, I wanted to build a simple UI to control the parameters used in the CA example. This posed a practical difficulty. Opusmodus does not yet provide a GUI library. 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