Project manager, leader and funder: Charly

Software "architect": Jeremy

Moaner: Big Datta

Guest member: Gaspard

Artist: Tintin

Boss of the Project manager: Céline

English guy: Morgan

• ASCII-art animations
• Beeper music
• Helico drawing
• Aquarium simulator

Soon:

• Game module
• Musical frequencies analyzer

To compile and run the sample program:

make

./testhelico

Usage of the sample program:

testhelico

    anim anim/ascii_animation_file.txt time_between_each_frame_in_ms

    music snd/snd_file.txt

    helico

    simulator

With no parameters, the program will display a nice ASCII animation while playing a beautiful music with the beeper.

Note that you need to install the beep tool and load the pcspkr kernel module to be able to use the PC's beeper:

sudo apt-get install beep

sudo modprobe pcspkr

See main.cpp for more information about using the library in your own libhelico-powered programs (it's very simple, you'll see, my little chicken :3 love).

Animation files format:

number_of_lines_per_frame

frame1

frame2

...

See samples in the anim/ directory.

Music files format:

time_in_ms_for_1_beat

Note1 harmonic_number number_of_beats

Note2 harmonic_number number_of_beats

...

The notes are: A, A#, B, D, D#, etc. R is for a Rest. Harmonic numbers are 0-9. The bigger, the higher.

For example, to play a B (3rd harmonic) of 2s, a Rest of 1s, and an A (4th harmonic) of 0.25s (1 beat = 0.5s):

500

B 3 4

R 0 2

A 4 0.5

See samples in the snd/ directory.

If you have any problems/comments/complaints running this library or concerning the contents of the animations* please contact the Moaner or the software architect** who are more involved than the project manager (or not).

Or just GFY.

* All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

** Such a lovely name for a such messy person.