hey mathieu, in case you have not seen this yet.. (max toolbox) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9064204491926904985 marius.
Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: > >> I look at this as the equivalent of properly indented code; a feature >> I'd really appreciate is the equivalent of auto-indenting since I >> obsessively line up my Pd patches. > > I thought about auto-positioning of objects and figured out that a way > to conciliate many potentially conflicting rules about placement of > objects, each rule could be defined as a force that pull objects towards > their ideal spot relative to that rule. The object will then tend > towards an intersection of the ideal spots, or if there is none, it will > tend towards somewhere between several ideal spots. > > So, for example, there would be a first force to ensure that objects > don't overlap. It would repulse objects from other objects, though not > in a way usually seen in physics. A second rule would tend to align a > box with the boxes it is connected to, with priority on left inlet > connections, and a third rule would tend towards the previous object in > the chain. More rules can be added and all rules can be weighted in > order to adjust the priority of the rules. By making rules combine in > different ways (variable weighting), different systems of priorities can > be made. > > This could take an external and a patch, or some tcl code in desiredata. > >> And finally, it pains me that much of this work we're discussing has >> already been done by Mathieu and Chun : (! I have a dream, where DD >> and PD and PD-E are one. > > DD-E is "coming soon", that is, almost as soon as the rest of DD that is > not really coming closer at this point... > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal QC Canada > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
