[PD] Re: new pmpd developer

[vincent rioux]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>cyrille hat gesagt: // cyrille wrote:
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>>thanks to La kitchen and Ircam, Nicolas will work on pmpd for the next 4 
>>mounths. He is an Ircam student doing is train at La kitchen.
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>>He will focuss on the pmpd object, tring to make it more usable, make 
>>some exemples, and try to make the integration with data structure.
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>>if time allows it, he will also work on pmpd~.
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>Great news. I'm really using pmpd stuff a lot currently, though my
>stuff is not performance ready at all yet, but I hope to get something
>done for the Linux Audio Conference in April.  Yes, I definitely will
>come up with some ideas or "feature requests" then. 
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>I also will try to clean up some of my patches, which already
>incorporate data structures in some applications. For example I have a
>"physical structure editor" in the works, which so far is still a bit
>very confusing. 
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>The basic idea there is, to design a physical structure using data
>structures for masses and links, where thickness of the structures
>corresponds to weight or damping, and then parse this and create the
>pmpd-network out of it. I used dynamic messages and dyn~ for the
>network so far. 
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have you considered using TkZinc for an editor GUI interface?
It's *2D only*, but simple and powerful - i use it with python, pyext 
and dyn~ and have been very satisfied so far.

vincent