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@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...
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.