Re: Lilypond -> flash (gnash) animation?

[Mark Van den Borre]

On 2/23/06, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 20-Feb-06, at 4:42 PM, Mark Van den Borre wrote:
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> > Could Lilypond help animate a simple snippet of music? Think
>
> Yes, it could _help_.  I would only use it to generate pictures of
> music, not any animation or syncing.  You could generate a whole bunch
> of input files via perl or the like, call lilypond on them, and get a
> bunch of pictures.
>
> > start/stop button, and note highlighting that jumps along with the
> > sound, a bit like a proprietary plugin does for a proprietary music
> > notation app. The possible music education applications of even the
> > simplest implementation would be huge...
>
> I wouldn't try to do anything like this, though.
Not necessarily with Lilypond, but this _would_ be beneficial for
music education. Any suggestions on other free software tools that
might be extended towards producing music animation suitable for
inclusion in a browser?

Mark
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