There are plenty of examples indeed :)
I’ll give struct with text and arrays a fair fight, I find the doc especially
quite hard to follow for non-graphical usage but it might just be me.
> On 7 Sep 2021, at 19:23, João Pais <jmmmp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does the max documentation of flucoma has concrete examples of what you're
> looking for?
>
> There is the purest_json library (which isn't vanilla), but maybe with some
> hacking it might be possible to read files. Not sure about writing, but my
> hacking isn't up to date with the current pd state.
>
>
>> Thanks for the quick reply!
>>
>> 2 use-cases.
>>
>> 1- we can generate or retrieve a dataset's content to use natively in the
>> creative coding environment (Max Pd Sc) so that it integrates in other
>> workflows of data mangling and drawing. We already have in our dataset
>> object file support and single point entry and query but this allow batch
>> dump and load. The structure is:
>>
>> {
>> "cols" : 3,
>> "data" : {
>> "entry-0" : [ -0.06755, 0.44185, -0.33835 ],
>> "entry-1" : [ -0.12305, -0.24085, 0.31295 ],
>> "entry-2" : [ -0.0595, -0.2881, 0.0597 ]
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> 2- we can retrieve or set the state of a complex objects. Our object will
>> spit out its internal status ( for instance, a neural net) and we can use
>> the values of its parameters, like below. More interestingly, we can also
>> query its structure and use that information too.
>>
>> {
>> "layers" : [ {
>> "activation" : 3,
>> "biases" : [ -3.076234734727154, 0.772760846709679 ],
>> "cols" : 2,
>> "rows" : 1,
>> "weights" : [ [ 6.015551733036155, -1.826803841455323 ]
>> ]
>> }
>> , {
>> "activation" : 3,
>> "biases" : [ -0.490600074475542 ],
>> "cols" : 1,
>> "rows" : 2,
>> "weights" : [ [ -3.115116035462417 ], [
>> -3.969281643687132 ] ]
>> }
>> ]
>> }
>>
>> The key-value nesting is quite powerful for this type of open structure...
>>
>>> On 7 Sep 2021, at 15:51, Christof Ressi <i...@christofressi.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you give an example of how the data is structured?
>>>
>>> In which ways are users supposed to interact with the data?
>>>
>>> Christof
>>>
>>> On 07.09.2021 16:37, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
>>>> Dear all
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to find the most Pd-vanilla-way to interface with our Dataset
>>>> object in the FluCoMa project. In Max and SuperCollider we use
>>>> Dictionaries, which are nestable and queryable in powerful programmatic
>>>> ways, working essentially like interfaces to JSON-like data structures.
>>>>
>>>> I’ve looked at [struct] but the [set] object does not allow to do symbols
>>>> and (list of) floats, and [appends] seem to have the same limitations. In
>>>> all cases, I’m not certain it is the best approach in any cases to create
>>>> such a list in Pd...
>>>>
>>>> I wonder how people do it and if I am missing an obvious workflow,
>>>> especially with nested structures.
>>>>
>>>> Any pointer (pun intended) welcome
>>>>
>>>> p
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
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