On Feb 19, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>
Subject: Re: [PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter
To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com>
Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 1:40 AM
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes
wrote:
I'll continue to argue if hc gives me some Pd examples
that back up his "95% bad" claim. But unless I'm missing a
"turn on segmented patch cords" checkbutton buried in a menu
somewhere, I believe this is the end of the argument.
The claim has been used for a long time, to justify why pd
doesn't have this feature. Even though Pd doesn't have it,
MAX has it, and this is what people here refer to when they
talk about segmented patch cords (most of the time).
http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/vignettes/core/max_alphabetical.html
I started at the top, checked the help for all the objects under
"symbols"
and "A". Thirty-five help docs with 27 segmented patch cords, and
_none_ of them are ambiguous.
So what exactly are people referring to, other than some anecdotal
evidence about some students somewhere who made some patches with some
segmented patch cords that they thought looked bad?
http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/logand.html
The patch on the right side would be clearer if the patch cords were
straight lines, rather than having little corners near the inlet/
outlets. To my eye, the horizontal cords merge with the horizontal
lines of the object boxes.
http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/accum.html
The feedback on the right side is the only time I think its good. The
left side, the cords start to less readable since they are only
horizontal. The direction of the cords to [2( and [4( does not point
towards its destintation, but instead towards off screen.
http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/atan.html
Again, the cords don't point towards their destintations. That means
you're eye has to trace the line to see where it goes rather than skim
it.
.hc
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