Re: [PD] Modular Switching/Matrix

2006-10-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Greg Surges wrote: I'm a music composition/technology major at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, currently taking a course in PD, and also studying it in private lessons. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with matrix-type switching, i.e. a modular system in

Re: [PD] a few beginner's questions

2006-10-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, robbert van hulzen wrote: i don't think the list would have to be a lot friendlier, and splitting things into beginners and überusers would not make me happy. i've been lurking on the list for a while now, learning lots, enjoying the different angles, and happily skipping

[PD] Gridflow Installation Help

2006-10-24 Thread Fanouris Moraitis
Hi all, I am trying to compile Gridflow 8.4 in a PowerPc with mac osx 10.4.7. I have installed ruby 1.8.4 using fink and also all the other neccesary libraries (libjpeg libjpeg-shlibs libpng-shlibs libpng3 libpng3-shlibs libmpeg libmpeg-shlibs) using fink. My pd version is a precompiled

[PD] [list length] counts unusual

2006-10-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, I just found out that the new [list length] from Pd-0.40 counts the length of messages slightly unusual. Counting the elements in a meta-message like walk the dog will leave out the first element, walk in the example, and give a result of 2. The proper list message list walk the dog however

Re: [PD] Modular Switching/Matrix

2006-10-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, padawan12 hat gesagt: // padawan12 wrote: Yeah, doing it the hard way with connections means you have to wire every permutation. Look at this example for a 4 to 4 matrix. Imagine how much fun an 8 to 8 or higher looks like. The most extensible way probably involves sending [connect(

Re: [PD] Gridflow Installation Help

2006-10-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Fanouris Moraitis wrote: I am trying to compile Gridflow 8.4 in a PowerPc with mac osx 10.4.7. It's called 0.8.4, really. Originally, the plan was to get to a point where we'd call it 1.0.0, but for psychological reasons I'll call that release 2.0.0. In the meanwhile,

Re: [PD] [list length] counts unusual

2006-10-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote: I just found out that the new [list length] from Pd-0.40 counts the length of messages slightly unusual. Counting the elements in a meta-message like walk the dog will leave out the first element, walk in the example, and give a result of 2. I can

Re: [PD] Modular Switching/Matrix

2006-10-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, padawan12 wrote: expandability, in my current layout, if I have n objects, I have to have n-squared switches. Above a certain number, adding a module could become very time-consuming. Yeah, doing it the hard way with connections means you have to wire every permutation.

Re: [PD] a few beginner's questions

2006-10-24 Thread robbert van hulzen
Thanks for your explanations, Mathieu! I can't seem to find .pdrc (i'm on mac osX 4.8). The org.puredata.plist opens in the property list editor, seems to be an .xml file. The startup flags from the startup preferences (as accessed from pd) show up labelled flags (class: string). Interestingly

Re: [PD] In search for Perlin Noise and seomthing to round numbers.

2006-10-24 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Hi Adrian, list, Adrian wrote: I'm sorry but i lack an english term for that: 3.14159265 I [round] I 3.142 This works for non-negative numbers: 3.14159265 | [* 1000] | [+ 0.5] | [int] | [/ 1000] | 3.142 For negative numbers, it seems [int] truncates towards 0, which is a bit

Re: [PD] Gridflow Installation Help

2006-10-24 Thread day 5
Hi Fanouris, I was getting this error when compiling GridFlow 0.8.4 as well. On Oct 24, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Fanouris Moraitis wrote: /usr/bin/ld: -undefined error, -undefined dynamic_lookup or -undefined define_a_way must be used when -twolevel_namespace is in effect The solution was to copy

Re: [PD] a few beginner's questions

2006-10-24 Thread robbert van hulzen
thanks mike--for now i'll just stick with the .xml, seems to be working and i don't have to figure out how to write a pref file. cheers, robbert On 10/24/06 12:48 PM, Mike McGonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robbert, You won't be able to see a . (dot file, files whose names begin with a