Rearranging artistic compositions
First Claim
1. A process for forming a digital instruction file from a digital information file of an artistic composition having artistic continuity and structure comprising the steps of:
- (a) analyzing the artistic structure of said digital information file by observing a video display of the waveform of the digital information file, said video display having a horizontal axis and a vertical axis;
(b) determining appropriate edit points within said digital information file, said appropriate edit points being the points where the positive portion of the waveform crosses the horizontal axis of the video display to become negative, said edit points dividing said artistic composition into a plurality of units, each of said plurality of units having artistic continuity and structure;
(c) arbitrarily as signing marker points to selected ones of said edit points; and
(d) storing said assigned marker points, said stored assigned marker points forming a digital instruction file.
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Abstract
A method is provided for automatically rearranging a plurality of digital information units (DIU) arbitrarily designated in a first digital information file (DIF), each DIU containing data with artistic structure and characteristics, to create a plurality of second DIF'"'"'s having different artistic structure and characteristics from the first DIF. The method includes a first process for automatically (1) reordering, (2) repeating, (3) creating alternate sequences of, (4) altering durations of, (5) including and excluding certain ones of, and (6) automatically manipulating the characteristics of the plurality of DIU.
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1. A process for forming a digital instruction file from a digital information file of an artistic composition having artistic continuity and structure comprising the steps of:
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(a) analyzing the artistic structure of said digital information file by observing a video display of the waveform of the digital information file, said video display having a horizontal axis and a vertical axis; (b) determining appropriate edit points within said digital information file, said appropriate edit points being the points where the positive portion of the waveform crosses the horizontal axis of the video display to become negative, said edit points dividing said artistic composition into a plurality of units, each of said plurality of units having artistic continuity and structure; (c) arbitrarily as signing marker points to selected ones of said edit points; and (d) storing said assigned marker points, said stored assigned marker points forming a digital instruction file. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for forming a digital instruction file for use in rearranging an artistic composition having artistic structure and continuity to form a rearranged composition, said artistic composition being dividable into units by edit points each of said units having structure and continuity, said system including
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a digital information file operatively associated with the computer, said digital information file including said artistic composition; at least one output user interface, operatively associated with the computer, for outputting information relating to the artistic composition from the computer to a user; retrieval instructions for causing the computer to retrieve and output the information relating to the artistic composition to the user through the at least one output user interface; address instructions for causing the computer to establish addresses for the digital information file; an input user interface, operatively associated with the computer, for inputting edit points in the digital information file; correlation instructions for causing the computer to correlate a sample address with each input edit point; a computer memory means, operatively associated with the computer for storing the sample addresses correlated with the edit points; storage instructions for causing the computer to store the sample addresses in the memory means, said stored correlated edit points forming said digital instruction file; and repeating instructions for causing the computer to repeatedly output a plurality of selected units in a loop through the at least one output user interface so that the accuracy of the edit points can be verified. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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