Software and Tools


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Software and Tools

JES | Media Sources | Picture Scaler | Movie Maker| Media Tools

Jython Environment for Students

For older versions of JES, see the
Media Compulation Planning Swiki

For this course, you will need to install JES (Jython Environment for Students). You will be doing all your homeworks with this. JES is a full-featured media computation environment for programming in Jython. It includes facilities for programming, debugging, and media examination. JES also comes with an extensive multimedia API, enabling easy and rapid manipulations of sounds, images, and on some platforms, video.

JES 3.0.6 --> NEW (August 21, 2007)

For Windows
For Mac
For Linux

Version 3.0.6 supersedes previous versions linked from this page and the Version 2 available on the textbook's CD-ROM.

If you have difficulty running JES (e.g. if it will not start or if it hangs repeatedly) please make sure you have the latest version of Java. If you are unsure, then seek a TA for help.

To run a program contained in a Python file, you must start JES directly and then load the Python file using the File menu. You cannot double-click on a Python file and expect to JES to start automatically and load that program.

Colin Potts

Media Sources

This is a large pack of pictures, sounds, and movies that you are free to use in your homeworks and projects. We still encourage you to be creative and create your own though. ;)

Download all of Media Sources	ZIP File	86 MB
Download just the pictures	ZIP File	5.6 MB
Download just the sound effects	ZIP File	1.9 MB
Download just the speech sounds	ZIP File	1.9 MB

Picture Scaling Utility

This tool will allow you to quickly scale a picture. This is useful for shrinking huge digital camera pictures for use in JES. Just download, unzip, and double-click.

Created by Angela Liang

	Download for Windows	ZIP File	817 KB
	Download for Mac	ZIP File	1.26 MB

Movie Maker

Just download and unzip the file, and double click MovieMaker.exe (for Windows). For Mac, from the console in the MovieMaker directory type: ./MovieMaker
Enter your first frame and last frame and press Create Movie. The movie will be created in the directory where the source images are, so make sure that the images are on your hard drive.

	Download for Windows	ZIP File	817 KB
	Download for Mac	ZIP File	1.26 MB

Media Tools

There is an experimental version of MediaTools application available at mediatools-v5-sa.zip (Windows) and Mediatools-v5-Mac.sit (Macintosh). This version includes the facility to scale down (or up) pictures, so if you have a huge picture from a digital camera, you can scale it down to make it easier to use in movies and collages.

Download this file.
Unpack it in your MediaTools directory.
Simply drag mediatools-v5-sa.image (instead of mediatools-v4-sa.image) onto your Squeak application. (The Squeak application is available on your CD in the MediaTools directory, or from http://www.squeak.org. The Macintosh file above INCLUDES the VM, because you must use the latest VM with this version of MediaTools.)
The scaling button is in the Pixel Tools. Click the button. It will ask you to pick a JPEG file, then ask you how much to scale it (e.g., 0.25 will be 25% of the original size). The file will then be saved as "s"+filename, e.g., "beach.jpg" becomes "sbeach.jpg" (for Scaled beach.jpg).

Download for Windows (Debugged without Java)	ZIP File	9.2 MB
Download for Windows (Debugged with Java 1.4.2 Bundle)	ZIP File	20.7 MB
Download for Windows (Book CD version)	ZIP File	22.1 MB
Download for Mac (Zip format)	SIT File	7.60 MB
Download for Mac (STI format)	SIT File	7.60 MB
Download JES Source	ZIP File	7.54 MB

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Spring 2006 Lab 1 Questions last edited on 29 January 2006 at 4:49 pm by r76h149.res.gatech.edu