[Pdweb] Home page text content
Nicolas Montgermont
nicolas_montgermont at yahoo.fr
Tue Mar 13 14:18:02 CET 2012
Hello,
The proposition i made is totally open to discussion and correction (my
english is a bit crappy...)
I did not mention libpd or pd-anywhere cause there is no mention of any
pd projects in the text i've submitted: no Gem, no Pd-extended. In this
case, i see no reason to only mention libpd.
But you can add a paragraph or a sentence with the main projects (and i
agree, libpd is one of these)
I am totally against making publicity for electronic arts in this text:
keep in mind that it may be a copied text in many different contexts to
introduce pd.
You're right, it lacks a paragraph describing how a user work with pd.
Maybe between the second and the third ones?
Best
n
Le 13/03/12 12:05, Scott R. Looney a écrit :
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
>> New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher,
>> Director.
>> ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
>> The University of Edinburgh, UK
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> The University of Edinburgh, UK
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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