On 10/10/06, patrick puredata@11h11.com wrote:
hello,
can you tell us what Kaos is for? i mean, is it for doing audio (texture, noise and such) or more for video. before i try to compile everything on linux ;) if someone done it, it could be nice to upload *.pd_linux somewhere thanks!!!
Well, Kaos is a front-end for the set of externals "Chaos", by Ben Bogart (with updates from myself). And as far as what it is for, that is pretty much up to you. The idea of "Chaos" was to produce a set of externals that generate chaotic streams of data which can be used for whatever purpose. While there are no direct Audio objects in Chaos, you could use on of the objects to fill a table, and play that. Or you could use it to generate control data for either audio or video.
And as far as having externals compiled for Linux, I HIGHLY doubt anyone has one, as these versions of "chaos" (in the 'kaos/ext/*' folder) have not been released publically until now. These are different from the set that is included with the extended stuff, but you could use Kaos to work with those, you will lose some functionality with the searching functions. Plus, there are some additional objects added to the Chaos Library.
Thanks for your interest, Patrick. The compile should be pretty straight forward, as there is nothing unusual about these externals (unless you are using Windows, and get compile errors about missing 'drand48'...). The only makefile that I have for these is for Mac OS X 10.3.9 (PPC, no Intel)...
Mike
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