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Demakein ======== https://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/design Paul Harrison - [email protected] Demakein is a set of Python tools for designing and making woodwind instruments. This generally consists of two stages: - The "design" stage is a numerical optimization that chooses the bore shape and the finger hole placement, size, and depth necessary for the instrument to produce the correct notes for a given set of fingerings. - The "make" stage takes a design and turns it into a 3D object, then then cuts the object into pieces that can be CNC-milled or 3D-printed. Demakein can either be used via the command "demakein" or as a library in Python. Demakein has been designed to be extensible, and I hope you will find it relatively easy to write code to create your own novel instruments. You can either create subclasses of existing classes in order to tweak a few parameters, or create wholly new classes using existing examples as a template. Requirements ============ Python 2 - Linux: Use your package manager to install Python 2 and pip. - OS X Reported to be possible, however I can't give exact instructions. - Windows: Run Linux in a virtual machine such as VirtualBox. (confirmed to work) The "design" tools require nesoni. They should work on all platforms that Python runs on. - nesoni sudo pip install --upgrade nesoni The "make" tools additionally require CGAL and associated paraphenalia. I have only tested this on Linux, but I'm told it's possible on OS X as well. - g++ - cmake - libcffi - CGAL sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libffi-dev libcgal-dev - cffi sudo pip install --upgrade cffi Installation, easiest method ============================ On a Debian or Ubuntu Linux system: sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libffi-dev libcgal-dev python-pip geeqie sudo pip install --upgrade demakein ("--upgrade" ensures the latest version is installed) You can then run program by typing: demakein or: python -m demakein PyPy installation ================= Using PyPy will let Demakein run considerably faster. The easiest way to do this presently is to create a "virtualenv". sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libffi-dev libcgal-dev python-pip geeqie sudo apt-get install pypy python-virtualenv virtualenv -p pypy myenv myenv/bin/pip install --upgrade demakein You can then run demakein with: myenv/bin/demakein or: myenv/bin/python -m demakein Installation from source ======================== If using the "make" part of Demakein, you will need to install: - g++ - cmake - CGAL - libffi and from the Python Package Index, install: - nesoni - cffi Download and untar tarball and in the untarred directory: sudo python setup.py install Examples ======== Create a small flute: demakein design-folk-flute: myflute --transpose 12 demakein make-flute: myflute Files are created in a directory called myflute. We've just made STL files for 3D printing. How about if we want to CNC-mill the flute? demakein make-flute: myflute --mill yes --open yes --prefix milling If you want to create your own custom instruments, you can create subclasses of the instruments provided. Some examples of how to do this can be found in the "examples" directory. You can use these as a starting point. Instrument design tools are subclasses of demakein.design.Instrument_designer. These tools define a set of class attributes that constrain the instrument design. closed_top - bool Is the top of the instrument closed? Reeds and brass-style mouthpieces are effectively closed. A ney has an open end. A flute might be approximated as an open end, or the embouchure hole treated as a hole and the end set to closed. See examples/simple_reedpipe.py for an example with closed_top=True. See examples/simple_flute.py for an example with closed_top=False. inital_length - float Length of the instrument at the start of the optimization. Automatically adjusted based on --transpose parameter. Just provide a roughly reasonable value, eg using demakein.design.wavelength function n_holes - int Number of finger holes. fingerings - list of tuples (note, [ 0/1,... ]) Desired fingering patterns to produce each desired note. <note> is automatically adjusted by --transpose parameter. The list starts from the bottom of the instrument. Not all fingering schemes are physically possible, this may require some experimentation. max_hole_diameters - list of n_holes floats Maximum allowed finger hole diameters. min_hole_diameters - list of n_holes floats Minimum allowed finger hole diameters. min_hole_spacing - list of n_holes-1 floats Minimum space between finger holes in mm. top_clearance_fraction bottom_clearance_fraction - Minimum distance of top/bottom hole from top/bottom of instrument, as a fraction of the instrument length. balance - list of n_holes-2 floats or Nones Values should be in the range zero to one. Smaller values force the spacing between successive holes to be more similar. hole_angles - list of n_holes floats Vertical angle of each hole. Angled holes may allow more comfortable hole spacing. inner_diameters - list of floats [advanced: or tuples (low,high)] The first element is the bore diameter at the base of the instrument. The last element is the bore diameter at the top of the instrument. The bore is piecewise linear, intervening elements are bore diameters boundaries between pieces (kinks). Exact placement is subject to numerical optimization. Advanced: Instead of a single diameter, you can give a tuple (low,high) to create a step in the diameter of the bore. See the examples/stepped_shawm.py for an example of this. initial_inner_fractions - list of len(inner_diameters)-2 floats Initial positions of kinks in the bore. min_inner_fraction_sep - list of len(inner_diameters)-1 floats Minimum size of each linear segment of the bore, as a fraction of the overall length. outer_diameters initial_outer_fractions min_outer_fraction_sep - As for inner_diameters, but defining the shape of the outside of the instrument (hence the depth of each finger hole). outer_add - bool, default False Optionally the outside diameters of the instrument can be defined as being in addition to the bore diameters rather than independent of them. See examples/simple_shawm.py for an example of this.
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