[conspire] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday September 11, 2008: Music and Lights

[jim]

BayPIGgies meeting Thursday September 11, 2008: 
Finger Painting with Planets 
by Speaker 

Finger Painting with Planets is an interactive installation using 
FingerWorks iGesture multitouch pads in a custom-built controller. 
The installation lets people place objects in space. Gravitational 
attraction between the objects produces graceful movements that are 
translated into visuals and sound. Knobs and buttons on the controller 
are used to adjust parameters. A musical keyboard is used to select 
notes that will be used in the music. 


Theater Lighting System 
by Drew Perttula

I'll talk about 3 major new improvements to my theater lighting 
system since the last presentation in 2005: a midi input device 
(with python driver); the use of RDF for most of the persistent 
data; and a new tool for rendering previews of lighting scenes 
with opengl.


The meeting starts with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of 
an essential Python feature, specially for those new to Python. 

Tonight's Newbie Nugget is... 
Micro-benchmarking with timeit, presented by Matt Good. 


Location: Google Campus 
Building 40, the Seville room 
(check in at the lobby in bldg 43)


bayPIGgies meeting information: 
http://baypiggies.net/new/plone

* Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready: 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings
(no later than close of business on Wednesday.) 


Agenda

..... 7:30 PM ...........................
General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, 
any first-minute announcements. 


..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................
Newbie Nugget Benchmarking with timeit 
by Matt Good 
 

..... 7:45 PM to 8:15 PM ................
Finger Painting with Planets 
by Tim Thompson 


..... 8:15 PM to 8:45 PM ................
Theater Lighting System 
by Drew Perttula 



..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM -- After The Talk ................
Mapping and Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics 
the announcers are interested in. 

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up 
individually on the announcements and other topics of 
interest.