chordoid, gammoid, etc.

hi Gene,

while updating my Encyclopaedia webpages, i came
across this:

http://ndirty.cute.fi/~karttu/matikka/gammoids.old

i know you use Maple, so you might like to take
a look at this and shed some light on what's going on.

as with your work, Pierre Lamothe posted stuff to
the list that i found interested but basically
incomprehensible. he seemed really interested in
what i was doing but i was never able to communicate
with him deeply enough to make progress. (and i am
fairly capable with French too)

actually, while rummaging around on my hard drive
i see that i have several different webpages for
Pierre's terms ... i'll have to try to contact him
to sort it all out.

i also have a webpage i made of a discussion you
and Pierre had regarding a critique he made of your
definitions.

i have your definitions here:

http://tonalsoft.com/enc/index2.htm?genemath.htm

and Pierre's critique and subsequent discussion here:

http://tonalsoft.com/enc/lamothe/genemath-crit.htm

-monz

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <monz@a...> wrote:

> i know you use Maple, so you might like to take
> a look at this and shed some light on what's going on.

It's a bunch of Maple routines for doing JI scale stuff. The
"gammoids.old" that this links to is older than "gammoids", which you
can find on the same web site, and also gives an error message and
won't completely load. I'd change the url to

http://ndirty.cute.fi/~karttu/matikka/gammoids.txt

The author is a Finn who documents his code in English, so this is
likely to prove more digestible to many than Pierre's own
explanations. Jargon haters should steer clear, a lot gets tossed
around even in the descriptions of the programs, and the words
familiar here for the same concept may not be used; for instance, one
of the programs here computes a tonality diamond, but doesn't call it
that. However, if you have Maple this is probably the best way to
learn what the heck Pierre meant by all he said.

I'll check it out further.