images -> audio

[Mark Danks]

  It is possible to sample pixel data and get the color values with the
pix_data object.  It accepts a normalized x, y position (ie, between 0, 1)
and outputs the color and grayscale value of a pixel.  You can use this to
drive audio if you want.

Later, Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Lechasseur [mailto:mlecha at music.mcgill.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:10 AM
> To: Pd-List
> Cc: Michael Lechasseur
> Subject: images -> audio
> 
> 
> 
> 	A visual artist would like me to create some audio from 
> digitized brain
> scan images.  I peeked at the objects in the GEM library, and 
> they seem to
> deal with creating and displaying graphics, rather than using 
> graphics as a
> source for output to "pure data".
> 
> 	I seem to remember a friend telling me that pd and GEM 
> were used at a
> demonstration at McGill university, and the patch was 
> programmed to created
> audio from a graphic file.
> 
> 	The processing of the data used to create the images 
> would be fairly
> minimal.
> 
> 	Any suggestions?
> 
> 	Michael Lechasseur
> 
> 
> 
>