Huttars' other stuff...

Papers:

• August 5, 2003. My thesis, "Constituent Charting for Discourse Analysis: Information Model and Presentation Model."
• Feb. 13, 2002. There are some papers on Hebrew / the Old Testament in my Yahoo briefcase, including some MP3s of a professional cantor reading the Bible in the original Hebrew.
• May 9, 2001. "Computer Tools for Marking Up Communication Relations" - about software you can use to indicate relations between units of text, such as Semantic Structural Analysis, or Rhetorical Structure Theory. Software mentioned includes general-purpose tools like Word and Excel, as well as specialized tools. Tools-relations.doc

Music:

• This MP3 is my wife and I playing a piece called God Above, God Below, on flute and marimba, at the GIAL graduation ceremony, June 7, 2003. (And in this MP3 I introduce the piece orally.) The arrangement and the words are by Paul Neeley, based on ancient Celtic prayers by St. Patrick and others. The tune is traditional Scottish ("The Dark Island"). The recording that we followed can be downloaded from Amazon (in MP3 format). God Above, God Below is the title track of a CD by PBC and Onora. There is another CD in the same set called "Kindle My Heart." We highly recommend both of them -- wonderful music.
  One nice thing about this music is that you can get the scores over the web (for about $2 each) from this site.
• On another page I have links to Central Asian music.

Misc.

• I recently started a page acknowledging the good, free (or cheap) software I use regularly.

Software projects

• I'd like to write a computer-assisted Nurikabe editor, a program for helping solve and create Nurikabe puzzles. It would probably have a grid on the left for placing numbers (done at random by the computer, or by the user), and a grid on the right for testing the puzzle, by computer-assisted solving (or, above and below).
• I'd like to make a simple, freeware screensaver that lets you display a set of images (like Wallmaster), but also lets you display quotes (e.g. Scripture verses) from a text file (as QLiner's Quotes does) over them. Yes, there are lots of canned sunset-and-verse screensavers, but I want one where you can provide your own pictures and text. If you know of one already, let me know please. If I do this myself I'll probably use OpenGL (via GLUT, DemoGL, or some other higher level library).
• I'd like to make another screensaver (maybe combined with the above) that displays images of your choice on the faces of a folding cube (a.k.a. flip cube). My parents once gave me a flip cube of pictures from Kenya, which I have scanned and would like to turn into a screensaver. It should rotate and fold by itself, to display the different pictures (but try to get them right-side-up!). On the other hand, it would be fun to control it from the keyboard. I suppose if you wanted more than 12 pictures, you could have the cube change its skin on the side that's away from "the camera"; that way you could display as many photos in sequence as you liked. New: This is now an open-source project hosted on berlios.de.
• Wooble - an eye candy / physical simulation applet written in Java.

Links

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