Wow, guess that settles it. Thanks all for the advice. I'll let you all know when the prototypes are rendered. -lee RTaylor wrote: > On 2004-05-29 06:02:30 +0000 lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> luis jure wrote: >> >>> hello list, >>> >>> (sorry for cross-postings) >>> >>> juan pampin has just announced the new "official" release of ATS. >>> >>> ATS is a spectral modeling system based on a sinusoidal plus >>> critical-band >>> noise decomposition. Psychoacoustic processing informs the system's >>> sinusoidal tracking and noise modeling algorithms. >> >> >> I'm doing a project and experimented with ATSH. It didn't do exactly >> what I was looking for but what I was looking for is kind of esoteric >> so I don't blame the program. Perhaps you can point me in some kind of >> direction or at least clarify some things since I feel that ATS >> probably comes the closest to what I'm looking for. >> >> I'd like to extract spectral information from a short sound recording >> and write it to a text file in the form of bin -> value for each >> frame. This data will eventually make it's way into a Maya plugin to >> be used as a function for a 3D object. I can't seem to find a program >> that will spit out this kind of FFT data as just a text file. Csound's >> pvanal gets real close but the format is binary. >> >> Anyway, the visualizations from ATSH looked the closest to what I'm >> looking for so I thought I'd ask for some advice. > > > OpenDX www.opendx.org My choice... You don't have to limit what you > visualize with it. This thing is just plain amazing. Matlab {amongst > others {Scilab} can do file conversions for you {take a look at h5 for > conversions... maybe Cactus if you really decide to get into it...} > > Mayavi {If you're into Python...} > > Grass {I've not used it in years... It was excellent in the late '9os > though and it looks like it's gotten "popular".} > > {maybe vxl... It's a language for "computer vision" ....I'm just setting > it up. I'm not quite sure what functionality it might add to your system > {s}. ...It looks as though it's got potential though. There *is* a lot > of stuff here: > http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html {One of > my favorite web pages. :}} Don't blame me if you download it and it's > useless. It *seems* really similar to: > > VTK/ITK > http://public.kitware.com/VTK/ > http://www.kitware.com/case/vtkinuse.html > > {Do take a look at what they're doing with some of their projects.} > > Oh... thanks for the hint about the above... I was at the page the > other night and decided I didn't have time to mess with it... after > reading a bit more it looks as though it could be excellent though....