Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: killer app idea

So your saying the idea of rectangles might be patented?? So I might be forced to use pentgons or octagons? Maybe the color will also be a problem.... Aaron On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:09, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > >From: Aaron <aamehl(a)actcom.net.il> > > > >1. Basically a front end to lilypond which will work > >more like a audio program. > > I remember something like that has been discussed somewhere > earlier. > > Well, if the rectangle on the track editor is made with audio editor, > it is displayed as waveform or as spectogram. If the rectangle on > the track is made with midi editor, it is displayed as matrix. > If the rectangle is made with X editor, it is displayed as X. > > When one zooms in to these displays, they might become editable. > (Waveform display usually does.) > > Maybe this should be mentioned in this context (before anyone > patents all these ideas): a rectangle may have different > reprentations and thus different display styles. E.g., if the > original data is audio, then the another representation could > be sequence data (midi?) generated with, e.g., wave-to-midi. > When the audio is edited, the other representation is changed > automatically (possibly using lazy-evaluation). If the original > is the sequence, then audio is just renderation of the sequence > (sort of freeze feature). > > I wanted to write about this multiple-representations because > in graphics, Silicon Graphics (Wavefront-Alias, Maya) has a patent > on using multiple reprentations. User-friendly for user-editing, > faster for rendering. I invented exactly that basic idea in high > school 10 years before they! > > So, if there are further ideas, lets hear them all now before > the ideas are patented. > > Juhana