[PD] Pd vs. MAX

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Thomas Grill wrote:

> > How does GEM compare to Jitter?
> I can't really comment on that since i don't know GEM very well.
> >From what i see is that Jitter is much more general and is extremely
> well-designed. It seems to be a sum of GEM and PDP at least.

GEM and GridFlow to be more precise. Jitter follows the multidimensional
data model formerly introduced by GridFlow, except it introduces a
separate concept of channels ("planes"): in GridFlow, an image may be a
240*320*3 "grid", but in Jitter, it's a 240*320 "matrix" with 3 "planes".
I'm not too sure what this additional concept is useful for, and it looks
more like a hindrance to the generality of objects.

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Mathieu Bouchard                       http://artengine.ca/matju