Project 4 Submission

Mid_Project_CheckIn.md

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+# Mid-Project Check-In
+
+## Sound from Interactive Drawing by Jane and Lydia
+
+### Current Overview
+
+So far, we have tested sound playback using pygame and have made a lot of progress in our code for interactive drawing. We have determined that pygame is capable of doing what we want in terms of sound, and we know one method which we can use to fulfill that need. We have also gotten to the point with our drawing code that the user can fill in squares in a grid with different shapes and colors using their mouse.
+
+Going forward, we are working on implementing a radial sweep in the drawing that will generate a dictionary of the grid points around where you click in circles of increasing size. Meaning, you will be able to click on the grid at some point, and the program will look at larger and larger circles with their centers at the point you clicked, and will generate a list of points on each circle that you have drawn in. In the future, this will allow us to play sound based on the location, shape, and color of the points the user has drawn in. We will most likely create a separate code file for the sound playback, then import it into the drawing code for use. At this point in time, we plan to have the sound chosen for each note determined as follows:
+
+*Shape: Note vs. Chord*
+
+*Fill: Short vs. Sustained*
+
+*Color: Instrument/Sound Type*
+
+*Angle on the Circle: Pitch (i.e., top pizza = C, bottom pizza = F)*
+
+### Next Steps
+
+- Generate sweeper class that will sweep the aforementioned circles.
+- Add ability to look at the blocks in a ring and choose sounds based on them
+  - Create dictionaries of block qualities => sound properties
+  - Determine angle of sound block relative to start point
+  - Add a LOT of sound files!
+- Play sounds in a ring all at once, rings one after another
+- Add buttons for UI (optional but preferred)

Proposal.md

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+##Project Proposal##
+
+Our idea for our project is to create a program where the user draws on the screen and the program generates music based on the drawing. We will be exploring user input, interactive drawing, interpreting information on the screen, and music generation for this. At the minimun, we would like to have a program where the user can place "stamps" in different colors or shapes with the placement representing pitch and the color or shape representing a type of sound. The program would then generate music as if it were reading the notes on a staff. What we really hope to do is have a program that can somehow interpret any drawing as music without using as rigid a structure of placement. A stretch goal would be to upload in image file and have the program generate music from that. This might involve extracting the major shapes in the image.
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+Lydia anticipates that figuring out what user-defined types we need to create will be the most challenging part of this project. She is excited to learn how to generate music with the program.
+Jane thinks that figuring out how to quantify and interpret the drawings on the screen will be the hardest part of this project. She is interested in learning how to process images and find the major features in them.
+
+We plan to use pygame to deal with user interaction and most likely the music generation as well. We're going to have to use the drawings on the screen as input data for the program, and we're not sure whether we should store the location, color, etc. of brushstrokes as they're created, or actually process the screen like an image. We might be able to use something like openCV to process the drawing, but we'll have to do more research to find the best tool.
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+By the check-in on Friday, we want to have some of our basic classes written (the canvas and marker, for example) and a plan of the classes that we will need. We also want to have a roadmap for the project laid out with the different goals and  tasks for completion. We will have at least the next few tasks assigned to one of us. We will have the libraries that we are using installed and make sure they have the functionality that we need.
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+Our biggest concern for the success of this project is the challenge of translating drawing data into music data. There is a relatively straightforward way as described above, treating the canvas like a staff, but to have the more freeform use that we want will be more complicated. We're not sure if we'll be able to process the drawings in the way that we want.
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README.md

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-# InteractiveProgramming
-This is the base repo for the interactive programming project for Software Design, Spring 2018 at Olin College.
+# Radial Synth
+
+## By Jane and Lydia
+
+### Prep
+
+- install `future` module by running `pip install future`
+- download fluidsynth module at https://github.com/nwhitehead/pyfluidsynth/archive/master.zip
+  - unpack zip file
+  - in command terminal, make sure you are in the folder you just extracted, fluidsynth-master
+- run `python setup.py install`
+
+### Run Code
+
+Make sure sound_files folder is downloaded to same directory as radialsynth.py, then run `python radialsynth.py`
+
+### View Webpage
+
+View project webpage [here](https://draconian9908.github.io/RadialSynth/)