[PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 8:27 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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> --- On Thu, 2/17/11, Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk> wrote:
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>> From: Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter
>> To: "Mathieu Bouchard" <matju at artengine.ca>
>> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>> Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 1:24 AM
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>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:55:24 -0500 (EST)
>> Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
>> wrote:
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>>> I don't see how the sentence « those diagrams are
>> source code » doesn't
>>> say that there's (almost) a one-to-one
>> correspondence.
>>
>> Yikes, I tried running that through De Morgans
>> What is it you _do_ see there? Or does the law of the
>> excluded
>> middle prevent us from straying there? :)
>>
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>>> But the one-to-one correspondence isn't exact. I could
>> make a list of ways
>>> in which it isn't.
>>
>> Please, a list I'd like to see out of curiosity when you
>> have a mo.
>> I thought about that long and hard, mainly it was things
>> like
>> ambiguous connections where filaments cross over another
>> object inlet, or horror of horrors, identical objects
>> copied
>> on top of each other and wired in place...I've been caught
>> out
>> that way before.
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>>> Nevertheless, with a little care, a screenshot can be
>>
>>> made in a way that can be read by someone that can
>> repatch it if the .pd
>>> file itself has not been published.
>>
>> I'll be honest it took a _lot_ of care. Out of well over
>> 1000 diagrams
>> one or two ambiguities have raised peoples annoyance enough
>> to email
>> me a "complaint". That's quite a good record I think, but I
>> spent
>> many hours re-arranging objects and coords to get clear and
>> unambiguous
>> patches. What some recognise as my style now was heavily
>> influenced by
>> the writing and the need to have patches unambiguously read
>> by eyes other
>> than my own.
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> 1 Don't have wires overlapping object boxes, object xlets, or object  
> text*
> 2 Avoid horizontal wires
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> What else is there?
>
> -Jonathan


- good layout to represent the flow of the data
- encapsulation into rational chunks
- and more...

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