On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Larry Troxler wrote:
On Saturday 13 September 2003 03:13, pix wrote:
if segmented patchcords are such a sin, why hasn't told the integrated circuit industry?
I was about to say that, but I wanted my answer to remain short. Actually I've had call me because he would have liked to reuse jMax's patcher system for some kind of peculiar automated circuit design system he's working on. I don't recall exactly what I did say, but I recommended against jMax and against PureData.
Ok, maybe the analogy is poor, because in a circuit schematic, a line represents a single node, and not data flow, so a better example would be block diagrams or flow charts.
I don't understand what you say. By node I would understand inlet or outlet, using the meaning from Graph Theory. Of course what goes along the lines is not quite like in PureData, and rather is the propagation of voltage difference and current, without differentiation between inlets and outlets... but none of those differences seem to affect layout so much that segmented patchcords go from relevant to irrelevant...
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju