"Jiu Shi Wo" by Lin Jun Jie
Stepped by John Bauer
horatio@gmail.com

This song is more funky than some of the other Mandarin simfiles I've
found or made.  (There aren't many simfiles in Mandarin anyway.)  The
artist translated the song title as "That's Me", which is kind of
boring but there it is.  I've decided to keep the transliterations as
the pinyin, though, so that SM can sort by pinyin name.

The lyrics repeat twice, so to cut the song to the traditional length,
I just removed one verse and some of the very long intro.

In the song, the singer is saying he'll be the one brave enough to say
"I Love You" in front of everyone, even if all the stars in the sky
were eyes staring at him.  You'd think it would be easy to come up
with a good background for such a message, but for some reason nothing
inspired me.  Instead, I used a pseudo-fractal snowflake produced by a
program I wrote.  For the end of the song, which has a crashing noise,
I used a displacement map in Gimp to make a broken-glass effect.

The image isn't a true fractal, as a fractal is something where a
magnified subsection of the image is indistinguishable from the full
image, and this snowflake doesn't have that property.  Still, it looks
cool.  If you want the code I used to make this picture, just drop me
a note.

Apparently I thought a math lecture was good use of readme space.

Please send feedback to John Bauer, horatio@gmail.com.

Enjoy!
