Thank you for your feedback, Eric.
Tanscript is a language in the computer language sense; using variable assignments and conditional nodes, a user can create a program that implements any Turing-computable function.
I looked at Max, and it appears to only allow data-flow programming; the components are all static, as data flows through them. Tanscript soundscapes are different in that the components are mainly 'actions', that that execute/play when the 'head' reaches them.
I've never heard of PD, so I'll look at that.
I looked at SuperCollider, and it appears to be a text-only language. Also, it is a functional language, derived from Lisp, which means that a program is a tree that an interpreter walks through, starting from the root and exploring and expanding using the rules encoded in the original program tree.
In order to visualize Tanscript, I'm coding 2D graphics from scratch using Pyglet in Python. This is just a prototype, though, and in the future I think it would be optimal to build Tanscript programs in real space using virtual reality technology such as the occulus rift. Or, at the very least, do 3D visualizations using Unity. (Or Kivy? I've never heard of it, so I don't know if it would do this.)
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