October 2012 Meeting Notes

Compiled by Dave Jaffe

Contributions from Kevin Appert and others

SVFIG on Google+ Hangout- long url - tinyurl

Videos - afternoon (2:45:09)

09:45

Coffee and a Chat

10:00

Michelangelo and Bach Stitched together in Adobe After Effects? - CH Ting
"I am trying to add video to Bach's B Minor Mass. I thought that Michelangelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel would provide very nice images for the music. I tried CyberLink's PowerDirector to animate the images, but the results were poor because it can only animate images accepted into the video stream and cannot take the high resolution images as sources. I am now trying Adobe After Effects, which seems to do a good job in scanning the high resolution images into the video stream. I need more time to study After Effects, but I can show a few clips at the Saturday meeting."

Slides - 100Kb pdf file

11:45

Lunch
We ate at the Treehouse.

12:30

Field Trips

We checked out the Global Paper Bike Rally after lunch.

Global Paper Bike Rally
This event will be held at 11am-1pm on Saturday in Roble Field. The bikes will be made by international students who are visiting this week. This link provides the general flavor of the challenge.

We postponed visiting the Ampex recorder in Green Library.

Historical Ampex Recorders
There's a beautifully restored Ampex 200a audio recorder and a VRX1000 video recorder on exhibit at Green Library. You'll need a driver's license or non-driver ID to get in.

13:00

Introductions, announcements, rumours, and gossip - All assembled
What can SVFIG do to promote Forth?

13:30

Milestone 2 Code Walkthrough - Samuel A. Falvo II
Sam will present a code walk-through of Milestone 2, the slide presentation program written in Kestrel Machine Forth.

14:15

Impromptu Talks

Dennis Ruffer showed a video of his Hawaiian vacation which included aa helicopter tour of a volcano field and waterfall. He also presented a comparison of video editting software.

Blue Hawaiian - video 11:23

Comparison of video editing software

WeVideo - cloud video editor

Stacy Smith recommended Natural Capitalism, a book by Amory Lovins.

Kevin Appert showed the hidden modes of his auto GPS device.

14:45

Break

15:05

Creole and Lazarus - Joseph M. O'Connor
Creole Forth is a simple Forth-like programming language developed as a component in Borland Delphi. Joe has ported Creole to Lazarus, a free cross-platform IDE which provides a Delphi-like development experience. Joe will remote-present using Google+ Hangout which will be streamed live via YouTube.

Slides - 171 Kb pdf file

Lazarus Project files - version 1.02 for Windows and Linux

Creole Forth

Embarcadero Delphi

Lazarus (IDE)

Creole Forth: A scripting language in Borland Delphi

Instructions for installing Creole in Lazarus:

Unzip
Go to Package -> Open Package File (.lpk), compile, and click on forthscript.lpk
Click on Compile to compile the sources.
After compilation, click on Use and install to mark for installation.
Exit dialog and go to Install Packages and look for 'forthscript 0.0 in the "Do not install" list on the right. Move it over to the "Install" list on the left-hand side.
Click on "Save and Rebuild IDE". Lazarus has to exit and restart to install a component or set up components. The tab "CreoleForth" should appear as part of the component palette with a single component (Creole).

15:55

Clean Up

16:00

Adjourn

Postponed

Quantum Computing - Jack Woehr
Jack had volunteered to do a remote "Hangout" presentation but he has another commitment so we'll postpone his talk, tentatively to December.