15 Dec
2004
15 Dec
'04
5:06 p.m.
Hallo,
Andreas Kuckartz hat gesagt: // Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
Paul Davis wrote:
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__
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/).