On May 30, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Of course, there is lots of stuff that is not mentioned in this
abstract, but its limited to 250 words (the last version I sent out
was 240). Here's another stab:
Use those 10 words to add mention of GEM. Not only does it really have
a full OpenGL rendering engine, it was also the first real-time
graphics library for _any Max (since 1997).
'GEM includes features like real-time particle systems and HD video
processing.' (Ok, so that's eleven.)
Pd (aka Pure Data) 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
(Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by
Miller Puckette 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, such as graphics and video.It is easy to extend Pd by writing object classes ("externals") or
patches ("abstractions"). The work of many developers is already
available as part of the standard Pd packages and the Pd developer
community is growing rapidly. Recent developments include a RRADical,
system of abstractions for building performance environments; PMPD, a
library of objects for physical modeling; and PDP, a library of
objects for generating and processing OpenGL and video in realtime.Pd is free software and can be downloaded either as an OS-specific
package, source package, or directly from CVS. Pd was written to be
multi-platform and therefore is quite 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 PC. It is possible to write
externals and patches that work with Max/MSP and Pd using flext and
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