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The Well-Tempered Fractal v3.0
A Composer's Tool for the Derivation of Musical Motifs, Phrases and
Rhythms From The Beauty and Symmetry of Fractals, Chaotic Attractors and
Other Mathematical Functions
Copyright 1993-1995
By Robert Greenhouse
Abstract
The Well-Tempered Fractal is a program which composes musical melodies by
mapping fractal images to musical scales. Ten different fractal types may
be mapped to twenty-one different musical scales. Twenty symmetry operators
may be applied to the image as it is plotted. The output may be heard on an
ordinary PC speaker or written to a MIDI event file which can be converted
to a standard MIDI file for use with MIDI instruments or sound cards. The
aim of the program is to produce fractally generated melodies to be used by
composers as the starting point for entire musical compositions.
The following files are included in the archive called WTF30.ZIP
WTF30 EXE 72098 04-09-95 1:08p The main executable of WTF
WTFTITLE EXE 49718 03-26-95 10:57a The title screen for WTF
WTF30J TXT 47042 05-20-95 2:47p The manual for WTF 3.0
FILE_ID DIZ 410 05-20-95 4:29p Archive descriptor file
READ ME 3041 05-31-95 5:38p This file
HOP01 GIF 8429 04-11-95 6:52a .GIF of fractal used to
compose HOP01C.MID
HOP01C MID 24964 04-11-95 7:06a A MIDI file of a
composition emerging from the
fractal shown in HOP01.GIF
HOP01TXT ZIP 13258 05-20-95 2:52p The raw .TXT file output of
HOP01.GIF written by WTF30
(ZIPped to save space)
IVAN1B MID 87940 05-30-95 9:40p Another MIDI file created
from the Ivanov fractal
KAMTOR1 MID 24700 05-30-95 9:05p Another MIDI file created
from the KAM Torus fractal
EXAMPLES TXT 3781 05-31-95 5:35p A description of the sample
MIDI files
CHEBY GIF 23330 05-20-95 3:13p Typical fractals from WTF30
DUFFING GIF 3956 05-20-95 3:17p
HOPALONG GIF 6719 05-20-95 3:25p
IKEDA GIF 14466 05-20-95 3:25p
IVANOV GIF 8349 05-20-95 3:25p
JULIA GIF 3411 05-20-95 3:26p
KAMTORUS GIF 11572 05-20-95 3:26p
MIRA GIF 10315 05-20-95 3:26p
SEAHORSE GIF 3567 05-20-95 3:26p
SGICON GIF 7161 05-20-95 3:26p
Both executables must be present for the program to run and the archive
must be distributed with all files intact.