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Author Topic: Beat counting animation  (Read 6041 times)

samsing

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Beat counting animation
« on: March 29, 2008, 12:20:00 pm »

I wonder if someone had already done this which I can use or I can modify someone else's work that is close. Here is what I am trying to do.

I want to count musical beats of various durations and counts. Also, in each cycle ( or measure ) I want to show different gestures. Minimally, I want 4 types of gestures and
they can be anything really as long as it is easy to distinguish. For example: If we are counting of 8 beats, the first beat will use gesture 1, beats 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 will use gesture 2, beat 6 will use gesture 3, beat 7 will go back to gesture 2 and beat 8 will use gesture 4. Something like that. Typical gestures are  two hands clapping, a wave of a hand, counting with fingers bending etc.

I also would like the user to set the speed of counting.

I really do not want to start from scratch, so I will go there only if something close is already not available. Thanks.

Sam
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headwax

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Re: Beat counting animation
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2008, 04:13:59 pm »

try doing leslie's stop light tut. find it at terreanim8or pages.
http://biederman.net/leslie/tutorials/ASL%20Scripting/ASL_scripting.htm
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samsing

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Re: Beat counting animation
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2008, 02:30:31 pm »

Thanks headwax. I will give that a try.
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