So that's Wigout! 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.
Robert Naiman and Jerry Keiper, both formerly of Wolfram Research, Inc., generously contributed their skills in mathematics and numerical analysis, and patiently answered the many questions I had on implementation.
I prototyped the synthesis algorithms for Wigout using Mathematica V2.1, then rewrote them in C, under NeXTStep 3.0. Since then, Wigout has been 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.
The graphics in this article were produced with gnuplot, version 3.5, written by Colin Kelley and Thomas Williams.