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+def light9_presentation():
+    """
+    Drew Perttula
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+    drewp@bigasterisk.com
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+    http://light9.bigasterisk.com
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+    Goals of light9:
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+    - control the brightness of many lights while playing music
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+    - allow easy editing of the show
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+    - allow easy maintenance of the code, even while the show is running
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+def dependencies():
+    """
+    Twisted - event loop and networking
+    TwistedWeb - xmlrpc protocol
+    tk, tix
+    pympd - my twisted interface to mpd
+    pydispatcher - signals
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+    mpd - music player daemon
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+    swig - interface to C code
+    darcs
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+    """
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+def connections():
+    """
+               (play cmds)
+    ascoltami --------------> mpd ----------> audio out
+        | (timing)
+        v
+    curvecalc    subcomposer    keyboardcomposer
+        |            |                 |
+        +---         |             ----+
+            \-----   |    --------/
+                  \--+---/
+                     | (light levels)
+                     v
+*                dmxserver
+                    | (dmx levels)
+          ......... v ....................
+          .      chippy                  .
+          .         | (dmx)              . external hardware
+          .         v                    .
+          .      dmx dimmer              .
+          .         | (juice)            .
+          .         v                    .
+          .      light                   .
+          ................................
+    """
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+def metrics():
+    """
+    selected linecounts:
+      356 ascoltami              (music player)
+      318 curvecalc              (curve and expression editor)
+      279 keyboardcomposer
+      189 dmxserver              (hardware output)
+      153 subcomposer
+       17 wavecurve              (create smoothed waveforms from .wav)
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+      311 light9/curve.py        (curve widgets)
+      191 light9/FlyingFader.py  (enhanced tk.Scale)
+      168 light9/Submaster.py
+*     151 light9/zoomcontrol.py
+      137 light9/dmxchanedit.py
+       40 light9/wavepoints.py
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+       65 light9/io/parport.c    (dmx interface protocol)
+       50 light9/io/serport.i    (i2c interface to sliders)
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+    total in project: about 3200 in about 30 files
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+    """
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+def future_projects():
+    """
+    A submaster server that talks with the other programs and
+    eliminates all the explicit saving and reloading of subs
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+    More abstract output layer, to which I can add home lighting, for
+    example
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+    Small timed 'clips' that can be triggered
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+    Generalize to a whizzy, distributed real-time circuit simulator
+    node network with a 5GL editor and failsafe checkpointing and
+    redundancy
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+    """
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