[PD] Sending data from PD to another program

[David Powers]

Here you go, just use the tree abstraction and create named nodes for
every event in your story!

Note that the nodes are hard coded to send to "master", you'd want
another "master" receiver for your GEM abstraction to select the image
which goes with the current node.

Oh, and of course replace the PD selector patch, which sends random 0
or 1, with your actual voting mechanism.

~David

On 5/6/07, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I will try to do a quick prototype and email it to you in
> 15-20 minutes.
> ~David
>
> On 5/6/07, Jared <linux at fridaythang.com> wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. That's basically what I want to do. My concern is
> > that there are around 80 nodes which have to be displayed in specific
> > if-then sequences (if it's at node 12 and the vote is A, go to node 33,
> > if the vote is B go to node 37). My understanding of PD means this isn't
> > *impossible*, it'll just be a bit clunky. If you have any suggestions to
> > the contrary, I'd love to hear 'em.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> > -Jared
> >
> > David Powers wrote:
> > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but what is it you want to
> > > display in gem exactly? If, say, you had an image for every possible
> > > node of the story, this would be trivial to implement. You just give
> > > each possible story node a name, and send the name as a message. Then
> > > some abstraction you build in PD/Gem takes the name as input, and
> > > outputs the appropriate image.
> > >
> > > ~David
> > >
> > > On 5/5/07, Jared <linux at fridaythang.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I have very approximate version of the voting working in PD but am
> > >> unsure how to do the visual output. What I'd like to do is have PD send
> > >> the vote information (that is, who won) to another program, either
> > >> something I'll write or PowerPoint or the like, to run the display.
> > >>
> > >> I know PD can do visual output through Gem, but in exploring Gem I
> > >> couldn't figure out an easy way to have the branching paths work,
> > >> whereas branching paths in PowerPoint or in a homemade program could be
> > >> relatively easy.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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#N canvas 729 186 458 456 12;
#X obj 66 176 select 0 1;
#X obj 66 296 outlet;
#X obj 133 295 outlet;
#X obj 66 129 r \$1;
#X obj 233 125 inlet;
#X obj 233 225 s master;
#X obj 233 174 symbol \$1;
#X connect 0 0 1 0;
#X connect 0 1 2 0;
#X connect 3 0 0 0;
#X connect 4 0 6 0;
#X connect 6 0 5 0;
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#N canvas 234 135 774 496 12;
#N canvas 0 0 454 304 selector 0;
#X obj 156 61 inlet;
#X obj 165 173 outlet;
#X obj 162 110 random 2;
#X connect 0 0 2 0;
#X connect 2 0 1 0;
#X restore 437 163 pd selector;
#X obj 323 16 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
-1;
#X floatatom 440 199 5 0 0 0 - - -;
#X msg 312 259 \; \$1 \$2;
#X obj 310 231 pack symbol float;
#X obj 323 49 t b b;
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#X obj 95 64 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
-1;
#X obj 32 60 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
-1;
#X obj 449 84 r master;
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#X obj 28 148 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
-1;
#X obj 92 149 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
-1;
#X obj 144 149 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
-1;
#X obj 203 147 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
-1;
#X obj 317 184 symbol;
#X obj 431 12 loadbang;
#X msg 436 52 symbol shark;
#X obj 24 103 node dolphin;
#X obj 136 105 node whale;
#X obj 27 189 node octopus;
#X obj 98 236 node lobster;
#X obj 157 276 node eel;
#X obj 225 313 node stingray;
#X connect 0 0 2 0;
#X connect 1 0 5 0;
#X connect 2 0 4 1;
#X connect 4 0 3 0;
#X connect 5 0 15 0;
#X connect 5 1 0 0;
#X connect 6 0 8 0;
#X connect 6 1 7 0;
#X connect 7 0 19 0;
#X connect 8 0 18 0;
#X connect 9 0 10 0;
#X connect 10 0 15 1;
#X connect 11 0 20 0;
#X connect 12 0 21 0;
#X connect 13 0 22 0;
#X connect 14 0 23 0;
#X connect 15 0 4 0;
#X connect 16 0 17 0;
#X connect 17 0 10 0;
#X connect 18 0 11 0;
#X connect 18 1 12 0;
#X connect 19 0 13 0;
#X connect 19 1 14 0;
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