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[Scott R. Looney]

agreed  - libpd and pd-anywhere should be mentioned (though pd-anywhere is
getting a bit old these days). how about something saying it being the
sound engine of the top selling game Spore?

scott

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Marco Donnarumma <devel at thesaddj.com>wrote:

> looks good to me,
> but we don't want to mention libpd or pd-anywhere?
>
> that's a strong feature of Pd that not many other software have.
> If it's political, then let's discuss it, but I think ppl should know
> about this.
>
> Also, the text (and also the old one) do not mention anything about how
> really Pd works.
> And I would like to see it mentioned on the home page.
> It doesn't make much sense that if someone wants to do what Pd does, he
> has to go round the website looking for info.
> It should be clearly stated in the homepage imho...
>
> thoughts?
>
> M
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Nicolas Montgermont <
> nicolas_montgermont at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>> n
>>
>> 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
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>> ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
>> The University of Edinburgh, UK
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