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See: http://fsf.org
See: http://fsf.org
== Rough notes ==
Examples
* Making a brochure (OSP)
* Imagemagick
* Protocols: OSC / UDP, Kinect (rental)
* Audio
* Evo Tutorials: Processing ()
* Evo Tutorials: Kinect (3D Input)
* Evo Tutorials: Animata (3D Models driven by (OSC) data) ... http://animata.kibu.hu/
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* NLTK
* lxml
== Applications ==
* Alchemy http://al.chemy.org/ (Drawing Sketching)
* Ardour (10 speaker setup)
* Inkscape
* Blender
* gimp
* kdenlive
* Scribus
* [http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ MyPaint]
* Audacity
== Formats ==
* [[SVG]] - Scalable Vector Graphics (vector format)
* [[PNG]] - Portable Network Graphics (bitmap format)
* IXR (multiple "raw" images that are composed to adjust)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska Matroska]
* OGG: A multimedia "container" (like Quicktime or AVI), that can hold audio/video
* Webm: A particular version of Matroska + VP8 video codec for publishing video online (contrast with MPEG4/H264)
== Command line tools (& Libraries) ==
* [[ImageMagick]]: the swiss army knife of images
* [[sox]]: Sound Exchange -- tools for manipulating and generating sound files
* [[ffmpeg]] tool for encoding and manipulating audio / video
* [[gstreamer]]
* [[melt]] / mlt
* [[midge]]: Music notation (in a special text markup) to melodic MIDI
* festival: Tools to convert text to speech (wav file), the tool is ''text2wave''
* [[psutils]]: utilities for manipulating PostScript files!
* [[youtube-dl]]: youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites

Revision as of 16:59, 5 October 2021

Free as in "freedom", Free Software means software that's been licensed in a way that guarantees certain freedoms, namely those to use, modify and redistribute the software without asking requiring to be paid for or otherwise given legal permission.

See: http://fsf.org