> > I'm still thinking about linking objects > A while ago I was thinking about a nice way to display this type of > information without graphics.
ASCII graphics are still graphics, in they would be hard to read line by line in a single or double-row LED display for example. which is what many digital musical instruments were limited to for about 2 decades. if you make the jump to using ASCII as graphics theres definitely been some work done on dealing with n-dimensional node graphs http://xanadu.com/zigzag/ of course SCLang proves you dont need graphics to have a concise and readable graph description, along with some algorithmic sugar.. > Consider Om or AMS as an example: suppose we have a sawtooth > oscillator node and a sampler node feeding into a filter node, and the > filter node feeds into the master sink node. We can just write that > as: > > sink: filter > filter: sawtooth sampler