[PD] Pd's wikipedia page

[david golightly]

Hey, that's a good point.  Anyone got any dazzling examples of data
structures?  (Frank B?  Anyone?)

On 3/31/06, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Didn't I read somewhere that two of the things that separate Pd from
> Max/MSP are the scalars/data structures and the ability to compute
> both audio and video simultaneously?
> I find the lack of scalars and data structures in every other
> programming environment I have tried to be the biggest advantage to
> Pd.  I wish there were some way to describe these functions so that
> commercial-software-educated musicians could appreciate them.
>
> At any rate, I think Pd's data structures should be mentioned in some
> way in the Wikipedia entry.
>
>
> On 3/30/06, david golightly <davigoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey list,
> >
> > I found myself on Wikipedia today inspecting "our" site for Pd.  I
> > made some changes, added some info and uploaded a screenshot of a
> > patch I happened to have open at the time.  The screenshot before was
> > really pointless, didn't really do anything at all.  Not to be too
> > self-conscious, but the Max wikipedia page has an Autechre patch up...
> > so I'm inviting anyone out there to put up a better screenshot than
> > the one I did.  I'm sure there's more impressive(-looking) stuff out
> > there, and as we know (from Autechre), it's all about how impressive
> > your patches look, not what they sound like. ;0  I know that Wikipedia
> > also has capability to upload PD (as in Public Domain) sound samples
> > up, though it's hard to know where to start with Pd.  Also, is there
> > anything like a list of actual performing artists who use Pd either
> > live or in studio?  I'm sure several on this list are worthy of
> > mention...
> >
> > The page could use a little expanding as well.  I put back the
> > contended assertion that Pd is (like Max) a dataflow programming
> > language, maybe better to say "based on the principles of dataflow
> > programming" or something like that.  Tear it apart.  Please.  Just
> > put it back together.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > David
> >
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