[PD] new feature for ponies to spit floats at objects

[Julian Brooks]

"This is the single greatest non-audio thing I have ever seen Pd do."

Yep - showing Pd as an ordinary everyday computing environment is way
overdue.

Julian


On 8 November 2013 05:10, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 11/07/2013 09:26 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>
>> On 03/11/13 09:46, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>
>>> This will finally make it possible for Pure Data objects to receive any
>>> message a pony happens to spit at it:
>>>
>>> https://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/pony-spits-numbers-
>>> at-Pd.webm/view
>>>
>>
>> This is the single greatest non-audio thing I have ever seen Pd do.
>>
>
> Hey, thanks!
>
> Here's another one:
> https://jwilkes.nfshost.com/self-discovery.webm
>
> Here the pony is spitting floats at her own source code.  She can glitch
> herself and trigger automated behavior like firing in an endless loop.
>
> I just went ahead and disabled zero-logical-time recursive loops for the
> canvas forwardmess method responsible for sending the float the pony spits
> to an object.  Forwarding a message like that is already obscure.  I figure
> if someone really needs to use recursion on top of something like that it's
> probably time to start looking for a solution outside of a visual dataflow
> environment.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>>
>
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