[PD] Pd's wikipedia page

[Chuckk Hubbard]

I offered my own version of an explanation of data structures on the
Wikipedia talk page.  See what you guys think.

"Unlike other audio programming environments, Pure Data allows the
creation of customizable lists of items, called scalars. These items
each have assignable parameters (identified in Data Structures) that
can be accessed individually using pointers and edited, displayed, or
applied as values while the program runs. At its most basic level, a
data structure allows the storing, retrieving, and viewing of data
which can automate any of Pure Data's other functions. This could mean
complex score languages, automatic settings changes, storing presets,
or visually displaying data that would otherwise be invisible."

Maybe this seems too elementary to some, but it's right on my level,
lol.  "Data Structures," "pointers," and "scalars" might all be links
to other articles.  I agree there should be something other than a
score as an example.  Weren't all the illustrations in Miller's book
created with Pd?  Maybe some kind of spectral analysis graphed with
data structures would look impressive.

-Chuckk

On 4/3/06, david golightly <davigoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think though it would be confusing to associate "pointers" in C with
> "pointers" in Pd.  They are related but not exactly equivalent
> concepts.  And we don't necessarily need to mention "pointers" on the
> Wikipedia site - that's a detail that's more suited to a tutorial that
> an encyclopedic overview.
>
> I've added a little section on data structures to the site - check it
> out and let me know what you think.  I'd still like to get a good
> screenshot of a non-score use of data structures, as well.
>
> -david
>
> On 4/3/06, Arie van Schutterhoef <arsche at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > >describe just what "data structures"
> > -Reads like a poem:
> >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure
> >
> > >"pointers"
> > -Slighthly less prosaic, but nonetheless readable:
> >  http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node10.html
> >
> > AvS
> >
> >
> >  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > .....................................................................
> >
> >  `    |Schreck Ensemble    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +
> >
> >    `  |# -laboratory for live electro-acoustic music- #            |
> >       |             http://www.schreck.nl/                         |
> >       |             http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/                 |
> >     ` *===========================================================++
> >     ` |Compositions http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/compo.html  |
> >     ` |Samples      http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/samp.html   |
> >     ` |Patches      http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/pat.html    |
> >     ` |Videos       http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/video.html  |
> >
> >     ` |Scores       http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/scores.html |
> >
> >       *===========================================================++
> >  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > .....................................................................
> >
> >
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