[PD-dev] another developer sould like to join

[David Plans Casal]

Hello.

On 23 Sep 2005, at 11:27, Davide Morelli wrote:

> I would like to ask you to add another developer to sf.net: David 
> Plans Casal.
> We are currently working on "evolution", a set of externals and 
> abstractions that implements evolutionary tecniques (David will 
> explain this better), and we'd like to share our work with you.
> David will now present himself.

As Davide has explained, I am working with him on a set of externals 
and abstractions/patches to implement evolutionary computation in 
Puredata. Initially, we are focusing on co-evolving genetic algorithms 
(musical material generators and non-human critics, to remove fitness 
bottleneck experience by implementations like GenJam). We are likely to 
try some neuroevolutionary techniques (combining ANNs and TDNNs with 
GAs), but mostly we aim to get a basic version working to allow other 
Puredata users to try it out without any other library dependencies, as 
we are simply using m_pd.h and nothing fancy like Flext, etc.

I would like to have RW access to CVS so that I can directly contribute 
work we do as it happens.

I may later on try to add Ruby/GridFlow bindings for these externals so 
they can be used from a user's .gridflow_startup file and loaded into 
patches dynamically.

I have been a Puredata user since 1998, but although I have followed 
both binary and CVS releases since, I have never had work of my own 
which I felt could be of real interest to other users.

Apart from the work with Davide, I would like to contribute (if 
appropriate) to the devel_0.39 build system if nothing else by creating 
better build documentation when necessary (and with Tim's consent).

Cheers,

David

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# David Plans Casal

problem.each { |day|
	assert_nil(spoon)
}