Hallo, Andreas Kuckartz hat gesagt: // Andreas Kuckartz wrote: > Paul Davis wrote: > > > its not that clear. according to the timeline provided at Ircam, > > "Patcher", the predecessor of Max, was started in 1986. i don't know > > if patcher had a visual dataflow model or not. Max itself didn't exist > > till 1990. > > Miller Puckette (the creator of Patcher and PD) probably could answer that > question and probably also knows something about prior art. Relevant articles > can almost certainly be found in Computer Music Journal > (http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Computer-Music-Journal/) and the > Prodeedings of the ICMC (http://www.computermusic.org/).
Quoting him: Another aspect of Max is its graphical user interface (GUI). The Max GUI has many antecedents. In 1980, while studying under Barry Vercoe, I saw the Oedit system by Richard Steiger and Roger Hale. This system, apparently never described in a published paper, allowed users to design Music 11 orchestras using a visual patch language. Many other graphical patch languages both for music and for other applications had appeared by 1987 when I started writing the Max patching GUI. Although several specific elements might have been novel at least in the computer music context the overall idea of a graphical patch language was not. See "Max at Seventeen", CMJ, online at http://www.cs.aue.auc.dk/~sts/class/26.4puckette.pdf Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__