In this particular setup, I see confusion from not knowing what the
result is a response to. There results are output from the same
outlet and are not labeled in anyway. So if you mistakenly send a
"sum" when you want to get only "mean", you would only get a strange
value and no sign that its a different calculation.
.hc
On May 14, 2010, at 12:17 PM, William Brent wrote:
Thanks for looking. The multiple object library vs. single
multi-function object question is a good one. Personally, it just
seems more tidy to me this way, and I don't believe there's any
downside to having all the functions packed into one extern. All the
memory is allocated per function, so if you only use the sum function,
(I think) it shouldn't be significantly different than a separate
extern for summing.
There is definitely something more Pd-ish about the multiple objects
though. I'm open to changing it... For now I'll start using it and
see if I ever have a desire to make it the other way.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<[email protected]> wrote:
Looks like a super useful library. My question to you is why did
you decide
to make it a single object with messages for the actions? IMHO, it
should
be a library of objects. The library would be called 'tabletool',
then
instead of messages, they functions would be objects. Having all the
answers to the messages come out the signal outlet would make it
hard to
parse the data. They could be something like the math objects but
for
tables.
I am thinking something like:
[bang(
|
[tabletool/mean table-1]
|
[bang(
|
[tabletool/min table-1]
|
[10(
|
[tabletool/equals table-1]
|
[0.5(
|
[tabletool/nearest table-1]
|
.hc
On May 13, 2010, at 6:27 PM, William Brent wrote:
Hi list,
I've been meaning to make this extern for a long time, and today was
the day. It's a table manipulation tool that covers the top items
on
my table wish-list for now. I'm sure there are plenty more things
to
add. There is a lot of redundant functionality with list-abs and
some
with zexy (like table dumping). Here's a link where you can download
the extern & source, and a list of functions. It's hot off the press
and not tested, so if anyone has time to check it, let me know of
bugs
and I'll correct them. I hope this ends up being useful for someone
besides me...
http://williambrent.conflations.com/pages/research.html#tabletool
- dumping a table to a list
- reporting the length of a table
- offsetting (adding a constant to all values)
- scaling (multiplying all values by a scalar)
- curve smoothing
- shifting values forward or back by index
- shuffling values randomly
- sorting values low to high
- reversing
- inverting
- normalizing to a specified range
- normalizing so values sum to 1.0
- copying a source table to a target table
- copying a specified range of a source table to a target table
- lacing alternating values from two tables into one table
- table sum
- table mean
- table arithmetic mean
- table geometric mean
- table integration
- table differentiation
- counting occurrences of a value
- index (or multiple indices) of a particular value
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William Brent
www.williambrent.com
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