So that's TrikTraks! I hope you have some fun with it, and please drop me a line if the program crashes on you, or just stares blankly back at you from the computer screen.
I'd like to thank Professors Jim Beauchamp and Sever Tipei, co-directors of the Computer Music Studios, University of Illinois, who were encouraging to my work, and generous with access to the Studios.
Herbert Brün and Keith Johnson taught me about SAWDUST, the principles of its algorithms, and its radical address to compositional premises.
Conversations with Michael Brün were very helpful in developing and exploring the amfm algorithm.
The program was originally written in C on a 68040 NeXTStation running NeXTStep 3.1. Then it was rewritten in C++, and ported to an IBM RS6000 running AIX 3.1, an SGI Indy running IRIX 5.3, an SGI O2 running IRIX 6.3, and an Intel PC running Windows95. On all these machines, the GNU C compiler was used to compile the code.
Most of the graphics in this program were produced with TrikTraks. Some were produced with gnuplot, version 3.5, written by Colin Kelley and Thomas Williams.