Yes I think I get what it is you are up to now. I love it! It is definately a positive direction to take because it makes what can seem very daunting as a cool bit of fun. Life is for having fun right?!!! A dance orientated program for teaching maths and computor programming would help in obvious ways I can imagine. Beginners need to get excited.
Wish I could offer some coding jargon to make my participation here more valid, but I certainly offer you my best wishes at bringing this excellent idea to fruition. I'll hang around and hope to pick up some good tips now and again.
I live in Cambridge, England btw...came over here at the age of five, from Naples!
Lui
From: erik hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scripted musical notation available Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:18:51 -0800 (PST)
--- Luigi Di Martino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a chance > And dance with me > Turn around > And set us free > Wear a smile > Light the sky > Move to Love > Will never die > > Just checked out your website and I see what > you mean. You didn't mention > Hank! Dancing is something I have always > enjoyed, and I wish you the best > with your ideas, which I like the sound of.
thanks, Lui. i didn't know they listened to Old Hank in Italia, but am glad to hear it.
my Rev dance app. uses images (formerly) buttons to of dancers moving around the screen. rotating the image of a dancer (in a 32 x 32 area) distorted the image, so i just pixeled out quasi-clones facing in 8 directions. i am using separate cards for each iteration, if that is the correct expression, so that directional arrows can be drawn on each card.
at the moment all of the "guys" and "dolls" are Mexican Folklorico dancers. there is a group of kids i am videoing extensively and would like to try out the concept of stepping through Rev code to teach them math.
an example: my start point for a dancer is 100,100 the destination is 180,140. i can choose to delineate 8 increments (to go with music) so the images will move in increments of -(80/10) on the x axis and -(40/8) on the y axis. right away you have introduced Cartesian coordinates and shown how computers count down the screen.
the teaching pros could use this tool in any number of ways. whatever quizes, games, and teaching strategies they like.
same thing with the music. everything is number based, and all of the calculations can be stepped through and shown to be very simple if taken one step at a time. a way to combine composition. math and logic.
thanks for letting me bend your ear, Erik
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