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[Nicolas Montgermont]

Sorry I'm very busy at the moment and can't do as much as I want.

Here is a proposition for a new intro text:

Pure Data (aka Pd) is a real-time graphical programming environment for 
audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of 
the family of patcher programming languages known as Max originally 
developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is 
written and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many 
developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.

Pd was created to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max 
paradigm with the core ideas of allowing data to be treated in a more 
open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of audio and 
MIDI. Pd offers a wide exploration field : realtime multimedia creation 
(sound, video, 3D), physical interfacing (sensors, kinect, joystick), 
motor control, data computing... and is used by a diverse community of 
people: musicians, visual artist, researchers, developers, performers...

Pd is a free open source software software and is designed to be easily 
extended by writing patches ("abstractions") or new objects 
("externals") . The work of many developers is available as part of the 
standard Pd packages and the Pd developer community is increasingly 
growing.  Pd was written to be multi-platform and therefore is very 
portable; versions exist for Win32, IRIX, GNU/Linux, BSD, and MacOS X 
running on anything from a PocketPC to an old Mac to a brand new 
smartphone.

This Pd-Portal
This site is a contribution of the IEM to the Pd community. Everybody 
using Pd is welcomed to join and write/contribute some documentation, 
reports, news, announcing events and add comments.

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Le 12/03/12 11:45, Marco Donnarumma a écrit :
> So, I'm fiddling with the home page.
> The textual content is clearly out of date.
>
> I just moved up and down some paragraphs to give prominence to the 
> real thing first, and the geeky thing after.
> Also added a mention about libpd and rjdj which was missing.
> If there's anything political about that let me know and Ill take it out.
>
> However, we need to reformulate this:
> "Recent developments include a system of abstractions for building 
> performance environments; a library of objects for physical modeling; 
> and a library of objects for generating and processing video in realtime."
>
> These are the "recent" developments from 2009 I take it.
> Is somebody willing to reformulate this statements making it more 
> related to present advances?
>
> I'm looking for some pics, possibly keeping the same subject of the 
> old pictures.
>
>
> -- 
> Marco Donnarumma
> New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director.
> ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
> The University of Edinburgh, UK
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