The computer version for Cent bilions de poemes ("A hundred billion poems") has been implemented by using MIDIPoet, software created by Eugenio Tisselli. MIDIPoet is a tool made to compose and interpret pieces involving interactive text and image. This version is divided into two separate programs: on the one hand there is the composer, which allows you to create pieces by drawing diagrams. On the other hand the interpreter, which interprets the pieces composed. In MIDIPoet pieces, text and image on the screen respond to external events: a key or a MIDI message. Through a simple process of composition in which text and image "events" and their "triggers" are defined, complex interactive pieces likely to be live interpreted can be created. MIDIPoet was especially created for text manipulation - a visual interactive poetry machine. The shape in which a text is shown on the screen (size, colour, letters, etc) and also the contents (choosing words from a list at random, mixing up letters, words and more) can be modified. Likewise, working with images is also possible: MIDIPoet works with frames - formats bmp, jpg and gif).
MIDIPoet works on a PC with Windows 98/Me/2000, and needs at least 64 RAM Mb and a Pentium processor.

It can be downloaded free on: www.transit-lounge.com/vainasystems
All the information and some examples are also available on this page.



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