Infinite Beau
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Created by Elena Shaw and Jiaying Wei

Introduction
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Infinite beau is an interactive program with a goal to help users creatively and visually compare defining characteristics of audio inputs, whether it be their music or their voices. It
live records audio and converts it to a visual art piece based on calculated characteristics of the audio input.

Press ESC to exit the program
Click on the initial screen to start recording
Click on the redo at the completion screen to run it again

This project was inspired by Juan Lopez Gomez's Fourier Art and could not of been finished with out Charles T. Zahn and Ralph Z. Roskie's paper "Fourier Descriptors for Plane Closed Curves"

Files
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The program runs off the interactive GUI.py file. The below picture shows the software’s file integration architecture.
 
audio_record.py: records live audio off the computer’s microphone and saves it as a .wav file

infinite.py: uses the recorded .wav file to calculate signal characteristics and generates corresponding visual piece saves 		as a .png file.

curve_generator.py: takes in signal characteristics and calculates the corresponding curve. Returns the list of coordinates 		associated with the generated curve.

write_png.py: draws the generated curve using the list of coordinates	and colors in the regions based on signal input amplitude.

bezier.py: connects the beginning and end points of the curve to create a closed loop.

DFT.py: calculates the defining signal characteristics using Fourier Series approximation.

input_waves.py: converts and normalizes audio files into a list of coordinate points.