Monday, August 04, 2025

Argus v1.58, I Was A War Baby

Updated Argus again today, with a few useful changes. First, the ability to set the speed of a modulator to one beat if a beats-per-minute values was entered, vary useful for music videos. Then, a complex calculation to split tracks into the optimal number. If I create a list of objects, say 1000 snowflakes, that appear 5 frames apart, and these fade away over 100 frames. How many snowflakes can be visible at once? 20, 100/5, so this list needs splitting (interleaving) into 20 tracks. The new routine calculates this by checking very object to determine the maximum distance needed, then every split to work out the distance between resultant events.

In between programming, Deb and I went to Bickerton to collect my paintings from the exhibition.

After that, did some painting, and added a layer to a painting I started this time last year; now called 'I Was A War Baby':