Free software

Free as in "freedom", Free Software means software that's been licensed in a way that guarantees certain freedoms, namely those to use, modify and redistribute the software without asking requiring to be paid for or otherwise given legal permission.

See: http://fsf.org

Rough notes

Examples

• Making a brochure (OSP)
• Imagemagick
• Protocols: OSC / UDP, Kinect (rental)
• Audio
• Evo Tutorials: Processing ()
• Evo Tutorials: Kinect (3D Input)
• Evo Tutorials: Animata (3D Models driven by (OSC) data) ... http://animata.kibu.hu/

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• NLTK
• lxml

Applications

• Alchemy http://al.chemy.org/ (Drawing Sketching)
• Ardour (10 speaker setup)
• Inkscape
• Blender
• gimp
• kdenlive
• Scribus
• MyPaint
• Audacity

Formats

• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics (vector format)
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics (bitmap format)
• IXR (multiple "raw" images that are composed to adjust)
• Matroska
• OGG: A multimedia "container" (like Quicktime or AVI), that can hold audio/video
• Webm: A particular version of Matroska + VP8 video codec for publishing video online (contrast with MPEG4/H264)

Command line tools (& Libraries)

• Imagemagick: the swiss army knife of images
• sox: Sound Exchange -- tools for manipulating and generating sound files
• ffmpeg tool for encoding and manipulating audio / video
• gstreamer
• melt / mlt
• midge: Music notation (in a special text markup) to melodic MIDI
• festival: Tools to convert text to speech (wav file), the tool is text2wave
• psutils: utilities for manipulating PostScript files!
• youtube-dl: youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites