[PD] Refactoring a PD patch

[Mike McGonagle]

On 12/11/07, Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk> wrote:
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> It's impossible to prescribe any certain way to patch, it's a bit of an
> art
> and very personal, but I have established a kind of pattern that I seem to
> follow and always try to tidy up patches into this form. This is mainly
> for
> DSP, synthesis and effects...



Yes, I know this. My idea is not to create a tool that will force a user to
lay things out in a specific way, but more a tool that will clean things up,
and then the user can accept those changes and start with that patch. it
would not overwrite the original patch, that would be left for the user to
do.


> How you can parse the file and identify any of this is a damn hard problem
> imho.


My idea stems from not worrying about the functionality of these objects,
but in how they are connected. Basically, when I build my patches, I try to
stack all those things that are connected directly in a line. While this
doesn't always work out, I think that something like this could be
programmed to help people clean up some of the mazes of patch cords.

I am not claiming that this would fix any problems, just an attempt to make
the flow of objects and their placements in the patch cleaner.

Mike



On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:34:49 -0600
> "Mike McGonagle" <mjmogo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey,
> > I was contemplating the idea of what it would take to write a program
> that
> > reads a PD abstration and produces something that "TRIES" to clean up
> the
> > appearance of the patch. From the discussion of segmented lines, and
> from
> > seeing some other people's patches, it made me wonder if anyone else has
> > tried to write a program that will attempt to clean up the tangled mess
> that
> > some patches come to...
> >
> > I have some ideas about how to do this, but wanted to first check out to
> see
> > if others have already attempted this sort of thing, and if they found
> it to
> > be fruitful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
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> >
> > --
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> > have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
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