On Sat, Aug 09, 1997 at 10:14:28AM +0100, Adam Back wrote: [...]
You missed one aspect of the design. What the collision is calculated on is the recipients email address. If the collision is on someone elses email address, you reject it out of hand.
Ah -- of course. [...]
[btw: Kent: I tried out your .midi file under win95, all I had to do was double click on it. Almost melodic in an weird modern sort of way. Most cool anyway :-]
Of course, I am prejudiced, but I seriously think it qualifies as legitimate art. I spent a fair amount of time tweaking things so it would sound good to my ear. Years ago I did a lot of experimentation with algorithmically generated music -- it really grows on you. In "the old days" of DOS I had code that would drive a midi synth directly -- putting things to midi files makes things static, and not quite as interesting -- I liked having things that never sounded exactly the same thing twice. But I haven't had time to keep up with midi drivers in the Windows world. But this experiment sends my mind twitching off in other aesthetic directions -- your code was short enough so that it isn't boring -- if you had 20 minutes of "music" like that it would drive you nuts, and I would like to try some longer things -- a couple hundred lines of C code, for example. To make that work I was thinking of putting in a strong basic harmonic background, like a blues progression, and using the code text to drive a solo voice over it. Something like the "Triple-DES blues"... -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html