[PD] PDDP Homework & Meeting Notes Dec 19th 2005

[Kyle Klipowicz]

This is really awesome Ben!  I have been reading along with the web
posts, and unfortunately have missed the meetings so far, but I think
that this is a very important initiative with Pd.  I have just started
to try and explain Pd to some friends, and realize that it is somewhat
of a miracle to have gotten as far as I have on the scattered
(although inspiring) documentation that exists.

Especially brilliant is your implication that _EVERY_ Pd
user/developer is a student, with more and more difficult
tasks/assignments.  I think that by teaching Pd to people, and sharing
my patches/abstractions with them, it will serve only to increase and
refine my own personal Pd knowledge.  But that can be applied to
anything ;-)

Kudos!

~Kyle

On 12/19/05, B. Bogart <ben at ekran.org> wrote:
> PDDP Meeting Dec 19th 2005
>
> _Issues:_
>
>   * Encourage code sharing
>   * patching style
>   * implimentation vs creation (abstraction design)
>
> _Content Ideas:_
>
> An assignment for students in the higher levels is to create a
> high-level abstraction. This abstraction is means to solve the problem
> of either A: A fellow students creative problem or B: provide more
> high-level abstractions for lower-level students. This would benifit the
> students by:
>
>   * Students learn to describe the problem they are solving.
>   * Students learn to communicate that problem to one and other.
>   * Students are encouraged to make use of the efforts of others.
>   * Enourages students to look at problems from other points of view.
>
> _What is the Purpose of these workshops?_
>
>   * Learn Pure-Data?
>   * Create media outside the context of commercial markets?
>   * To get back some freedom and genuine experience?
>   * Is the purpose of the workshops not the same as the purpose of PD
> itself?
>
> Workshop Draft (partical)
>
> _Level 1 (Intro)_
>   * Image
>     * Loading a still image (high-level, window&file hidden)
>     * Using a numberbox to control the size of the image
>     * Loading a video clip (same abstraction as above)
>     * Using number box to scrub video frames
>     * Using metro to control clip playback
>   * Sound
>     * Load a sound file (high-level, table&soundfiler hidden)
>     * Play sound file back with phasor~
>     * Srub sound file with numberbox
>     * Create sound (high-level FM abstraction?)
>     * Change sound quality with numberbox
>   * Network
>     * Read MIDI values (simple MIDI abstraction)
>     * Add midi control to control frame of video & tone of FM synth
>   * Physical Media
>     * HW interface (serial&processing hidden)
>     * push-button advances frame and triggers sound-file.
>
> _Level 2 (less Intro)_
>   * Image
>     * High level PDP patch that has three abstractions:
>       * load an image file
>       * blur effect
>       * output to window
>
> *HOMEWORK Assignment For Developers*
>
> Today we talked about extending the concept of the project based
> workshop into the workshop materials themselves. That is each level of a
> workshop (above we have level 1 layed out and level 2 is particially
> done) is brought home by using a different project example. That is each
> level would have a creative project already developed that would serve
> to inspire the students individual projects, as well as give meaning and
> context to the technical details (implimentation)
>
> So for your assignment you need to create a project idea that:
>
>   * Fits in with a particular level of the workshop (level 1 is
> introduction and
>     level n is advanced. Just choose a number from 1-10 to describe the
> level of
>     the project.
>
>   * The project should be pretty simple in terms of concept and as
> technical as
>     your chosen level allows.
>
>   * Require as few externals as possible
>
>   * The project has to be feasible
>
>   * The project has to be inspiring!
>
>   * Ideally it will encompass all four threads, image/sound/network/physical
>
> For the next meeting on January 9th 2006 all PDDP contributers should
> have developed a project concept and implimentation that could work as
> teaching material.
>
> An example project from my Metaphorical Networks lecture is:
>
>   Concept:
>
>   * As the sun rises an eye opens
>
>   Implimentation:
>
>   * An LDR connects to a multiIO which reads the voltage
>   * We read this value and scale it to 0-100
>   * The 0-100 value controls which frame a video of an eye opening is
> playing.
>
> Yes this example only has visual and physical media.
>
> This page is available on the PDDP wiki @:
>
> https://www.puredata.info/dev/pddp/BBogartsMeetingNotes20051219
>
>
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