VISUAL LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK FOR MUSIC RENDERING USING LSYSTEM

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2010-06
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KIM, LIM CHEN
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Although the existing Lindenmayer Systems (L-systems) have been traditionally used to model plant development graphically, it is also possible to interpret L-systems for music rendering. However, many of the existing L-system modelling applications, especially for musical rendering do not cater a larger <;ircle of people who may not be well-versed in music and neither for those with programming skill nor prior knowledge in Lsystems. In this dissertation, a visual programming framework is proposed for L-system music rendering in order to cater a larger circle of people including non-experts in Lsystem and music. A visual language framevvork for L-system has been developed and the usefulness and the efficiency of visual language in L-system music rendering have also been studied. The visual language framework includes the L-system attributes and standard musical grammar rules in the form of simplified icon-based visual language. Furthermore, the music rendering has also been further fine-tuned by using stochastic and context-sensitive L-systems. Based on the evaluation of the proposed visual language framework, it has been shown to be effective in the sense that anyone who does not have prior knowledge in L-system music may also fully utilize the easily generated musical sound based on the original L-system concepts.
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VISUAL LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK FOR MUSIC
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